Mar 29
MisterBOB’S Art Direction: Put an ad in a newsagent window for teenager model wanted for artist reference, do not scare him!
Published 1992
MisterBOB’S Art Direction: Put an ad in a newsagent window for teenager model wanted for artist reference, do not scare him!
Published 1992
March 29th, 2012 at 11:10 am
That’s the least rampant lioness I’ve ever seen.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:32 am
“It’s like Harry Potter, only more androgynous.”
March 29th, 2012 at 11:34 am
CRIMSON RAMPANT
March 29th, 2012 at 11:54 am
That is some major sunburn.
March 29th, 2012 at 11:55 am
And I have to say, the image on the previous Best of All Possible Wars would surely better suit a title like Lioness Rampant.
March 29th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
@Smith: true. So, the best of all wars is one that takes place in front of the kiddies, in a cave underneath a castle? I’ve heard worse ideas…
March 29th, 2012 at 1:21 pm
I thought “What’s Macaulay Culkin doing on the cover of that book?”
March 29th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
THE COWARDLY LIONESS RAMPANT
March 29th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
Admit it, this is the Bizarro World edition, right?
March 29th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
If covers were songs this would be a Celine Dion Barry Manilow duet of “You Light Up My Life”.
March 29th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
As long as artists keep on doing it, I’ll keep on saying it:
Behind you!!!
March 29th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Saddest thing is, I think that’s supposed to be a short-haired woman…
March 29th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
PHOTOSHOP RAMPANT
March 30th, 2012 at 10:38 am
I think Phil has a point. Maybe there should be a Behind you! tag.
May 3rd, 2012 at 4:46 am
This was actually one of my favourite books ever as a child. The woman in the foreground and the wizard are twins who switched places as children so she could become a knight, while he went away in her place to a lady’s finishing school that also trained boys as magicians.
July 21st, 2012 at 4:28 am
its supposed to be a woman. I love this series but this is the worst cover of it I’ve seen by far.
October 11th, 2012 at 6:16 am
Lets take an exciting book about a (very active) Lady Knight (who didn’t wear her hair short) and make it look extremely boring. Oh, and lets make her wizard brother look like a total idiot with a stupid hat that wizards in their world DON’T WEAR.
August 25th, 2015 at 11:54 am
I wish the cover artist had actually made the girl, who I assume is the lioness, rampant.
Then again, it seems the artist seems to have only changed the background of a photo taken at an entrance to a costume party.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:26 pm
You have to watch Game of Thrones to see her getting rampant.
August 25th, 2015 at 6:34 pm
This is an awesome book. Clearly whoever designed the cover didn’t actually read it, given as how the cover model is clearly a blonde boy, rather than a red-haired woman.
And no self-respecting mage (or indeed mage in general) in Tortall would ever be caught dead in such a stupid hat.