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Click for full imageLauren Comments: The colors on this are just so awful. And spike heels? But at least she’s not in a fur bikini. Although he appears to be having some wardrobe malfunction with his shirt.
At least he doesn’t have a mullet!
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June 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
I think this book is completely fine! EXCEPT for one thing, what’s going on with the text at the top?
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:36 am
Yea and that one thing is actually pretty darn huge!
No wonder they look scared, they’re being attacked by a glowing neon sign.
June 2nd, 2010 at 10:38 am
The girl appears to be sticking her bum out for no good reason, and I can’t imagine those shoes are practical, and I’m not sure if he’s sitting awkwardly with an injured leg or doing some kind of balletic leap, but the overall effect of the artwork I rather like. Only the neon Pearl and Dean text ruins proceedings, as both of the characters seem to be acknowledging too.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:09 am
He’s looking at the ‘R’ in ‘BRIGADE’. He’s cross. He’s thinking: ‘that’s not an R! That’s just a sort of squiggle!’
June 2nd, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Her: “Your leg is really hurt, o brave soldier. Let me clutch it like this.”
Him: “AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGNNNNNNNNNHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
There seems to be some greek columns in the background. Yet the one they are leaning against seems to have something like Sumerian. I’m maybe picking too much with that one. I mean it does mention travel. Sort of…
In fact… my eyes really want to read the the tag line from left to right. And not so much a line as a paragraph.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:06 pm
“Holy crap, what’s with that font?”
“I know! It’s like we’re trapped in an 80s video effect!”
“Kiss me.”
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:11 pm
@SI: He no longer to do battle wanted to on any be like the world. In any others — galaxy. Frozen in in any time, ready century…
It’s, like, beat poetry. Translated from the French by Babelfish. The meaningfulness!
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:51 pm
She looks like Amy Winehouse. I would not let her touch me, even if i didn’t have a bleeding gash in my leg. Thats a guaranteed infection right there.
He’s even turning his head away from her, “uuughhh, you smell like vomit”
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:00 pm
What’s with the guy’s weird, too large lower limbs?
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Presumably she has to go around on her knees because the moment she stands up her spike heels will get her irretrievably stuck in the red sand.
June 2nd, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I’m puzzled by the large chef’s hat in the background.
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:30 pm
I really don’t find this too hideous except for the ridiculous blurb text crammed in above the (neon!) title. My theory is that someone thought it would look like the scroll text from Star Wars.
It doesn’t.
Anyway, haven’t these people ever heard of the back cover? That’s where the plot summary traditionally goes.
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:43 am
“Was…that…thing…there a minute ago?”
“Well, if you didn’t keep hitting your head against the cement pillar, you wouldn’t keep forgetting, would you now?”
August 27th, 2015 at 2:00 am
No one on this cover is in anything resembling a comfortable or sensible pose.
@Tag Wizard, is there a tag for that?
September 11th, 2015 at 3:06 pm
@James: Well, I translated the blurb to Russian, then Japanese, then Afrikaans, and back to English. As follows:
‘He taller century in one of the galaxies, frozen in time that they are ready to fight in any of the world, you would be the other, and so on.’
I think Google Translate rather lost interest.
September 11th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
There’s some sort of alien smiley-face emoticon incised on the fallen pillar at the cover’s left side. Alien Google Translate renders its meaning as “WTF.”
September 12th, 2015 at 7:53 pm
So call me a moron, but what the heck is an “Eterntty Brigade”??
September 12th, 2015 at 8:20 pm
@AR: you’re a moron-butt. 😉
September 13th, 2015 at 10:54 am
Indeed. ;-P
April 28th, 2018 at 8:18 am
@A.R.Yngve (#18). Our Hero is clearly asking himself that precise question, as he gazes bemusedly up at the giant glowing letters hanging over his head.
May 1st, 2018 at 2:19 am
“What fresh hell is this title and giant blurb?” says our hero.
It’s a pretty good book, even if a terrible cover what screams “Late 70’s Post-Star Wars SF!”