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Click for full imageMatt’s Art Direction: I don’t care what’s on the cover. Just make it difficult to look at. I want a cover so jarring to the senses that you can barely read the title.
Published 1988
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)
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Matt’s Art Direction: I don’t care what’s on the cover. Just make it difficult to look at. I want a cover so jarring to the senses that you can barely read the title.
Published 1988
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)Loading...
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January 24th, 2011 at 10:18 am
It’s one hell of a new sport. Players hate it when the snake gets grumpy though.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:28 am
We’re not at all confident anyone will recognise this as a sequel, so we’d better make the title into a SUBtitle, then put in the title of the previous volume as the TITLE, following it with a number 2. That’s it, now everyone will know it’s a sequel.
Now, we’re not too confident that anyone will have heard of the author, so let’s refer to his previous work. No, not PSYCHODROME, to which this is clearly a sequel; I meant some other work. What else has he done?
The TIME WARS series, you say? Oh dear.
Hmm. Better make his name quite tiny. And make the reference to TIME WARS even tinier.
I know, how about a catchy slogan?
Well, we could also announce this as the SECOND in an exciting new series, in case the reader doesn’t notice that number 2 we put on there.
Hmm.
There’s only one thing that can save this book. Let’s use different colours for every line of type. Yes, that will do it.
January 24th, 2011 at 11:56 am
On the back cover is printed a warning:
“CAUTION: Cover text may cause seizures.”
January 24th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
No, I don’t want one. Thank you. Thank you very much for the offer. No, I don’t want yours, either.
January 24th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
OK, I actually took a writing workshop from this author in the late 1990s, and he claimed to have many of his book covers tattooed on his body. (I did not ask to see them.)
January 24th, 2011 at 2:11 pm
It’s not as unusual as you might think…
Not many people know that Stephen King has tattooed the cover of CHRISTINE on his stomach, so he can make the car bend and buckle with his skin.
And Dan Brown has tattooed the cover of THE DA VINCI CODE on his behind, so that he can… nah, just kidding.
January 24th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
“Snake fighting… it’s very scary fighting snake.”
The theme tune for the film adaptation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUSZWwnoVj0
January 24th, 2011 at 4:35 pm
The Lawnmower Man called, he wants his ’80’s background grid back.
This guy has the worst orthodontist ever. I thought I got picked on for my headgear back in the day … this guy must have had one wicked bite pattern before.
January 24th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Did this artist get inspiration from the MegaMan box art, or is it the other way around?
January 24th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
“Ugh! Agh! I knew I shouldn’t have gone for the off-brand joystick! And this LaserScope isn’t nearly as cool as the commercial!”
January 24th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
I thought we had more tentacles, but it turned out to be a snake.
How disappointing.
January 24th, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Hold that snake a bit closer to the head, bro.
January 25th, 2011 at 1:19 am
So. Many. Fontsizes.
January 25th, 2011 at 3:42 am
That snake’s anatomy has me confused. I can’t figure out if it’s got a few 90 degree turns just out of view, or if it’s literally tied itself in a knot.
Either way, that can’t be healthy.
February 19th, 2011 at 9:25 pm
The cover was later recycled for the Judge Dredd spinoff Judge Ramses, the Law of Mega-Cairo.
June 27th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
What REALLY bothers me about this is that one of his shoulder pads is shinier than the other.
June 29th, 2015 at 11:23 am
@Tom Noir: The snake must be keeping it polished.
December 9th, 2015 at 1:08 am
The cyberpunk adventures of Pippi Longstocking.
July 11th, 2016 at 12:58 pm
@DSWBT: It’s true, he’s got amazing ginger braids.
January 14th, 2017 at 2:30 am
One night at a party, me and this author got very, very, very drunk together but I do recall he said he was going to start writing under another, shorter name to see if he’d have more success.
Mission accomplished, Nick?
January 31st, 2017 at 11:50 pm
Why does this man wear a Wurlitzer on his head? Will we ever know?
February 4th, 2017 at 12:04 am
@GSS Tippler: Shorter in what sense? Like, Bob Poe? Or like, SMN HK?
February 4th, 2017 at 1:39 am
@DSWBQuestions: His real name’s Nicholas Yermakov. “Simon Hawke” is 37.5% shorter and much easier to spell/pronounce. And sold a bunch more. At some point he legally changed his name to the pseud.
August 25th, 2021 at 9:48 pm
The only GSS cover to have ‘scenario’ in the title. Good for you Psychodrome 2, you win a years supply of red knuckles.
August 26th, 2021 at 3:50 am
Simon Hawke is remarkable in that virtually all his series have GSS-ready book covers