Jan 28
Tom Noir Comments: The smirk on this fellow’s face says, “Underneath this desk, I’m not wearing trousers.” Because when you’re a dinosaur sea-captain with a fancy sash, who’s going to make you?
Published 1992
Tom Noir Comments: The smirk on this fellow’s face says, “Underneath this desk, I’m not wearing trousers.” Because when you’re a dinosaur sea-captain with a fancy sash, who’s going to make you?
Published 1992
January 28th, 2013 at 9:22 am
“OK, which one of youse guys put ink on the eyepiece?”
January 28th, 2013 at 9:51 am
So Earth has some sister-planet where dinosaurs survived and developed a civilisation without feeling the need to undergo any physical evolution whatever?
January 28th, 2013 at 11:35 am
How’s he going to get that telescope up to his eye when he only has tiny little arms?
January 28th, 2013 at 11:58 am
@Derek. Exactly. If this cover does bear any resemblance to the book’s contents, maybe that’s only a partial quote up there, and the original is something like:
“Sawyer’s as good at world building as he is at telling an exciting, satisfying story- terrible!”
January 28th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Again, an artist who can’t figure out how to connect necks to heads…*sigh*
January 28th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Interesting chart, nothing but circles within circles.
January 28th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
His chart seems to be a plank of wood, which may be handy if you’re sailing to Jupiter’s moons. If, like most dinosaurs, his vocabulary consists mainly of ‘Raaarr’, he might well be a pirate.
Because pirate dinosaurs in space is so much cooler than just dinosaurs in space.
January 28th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
Though being an excellent far-seer… when he forgets his reading glasses he has to improvise!
January 28th, 2013 at 2:38 pm
We can all be far-seers if we have a telescope. But how would he manage with binoculars?
January 28th, 2013 at 2:50 pm
That’s my favourite bit in any Italian Restaurant — when the T-Rex waiter comes over with the gigantic pepper-grinder.
January 28th, 2013 at 5:40 pm
This cover is exhibit B for my thesis that most sci-if/fantasy works can be improved by search-and-replacing the work “dragon” with “flying space t-rex”. Exhibit A is http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/07/the-second-experiment/ . Admittedly this t-rex has to use a boat to fly through space, but I believe the argument still stands.
January 28th, 2013 at 8:14 pm
Ah, the cover art for the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy. I feel like the illustrator was given no more than a tiny notecard describing what happens in each book.
January 29th, 2013 at 6:23 am
I wonder if Captain Rex here could also be related to Battledragon, as well as the star of “The Second Experiment”?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/05/dragon-ultimate
January 29th, 2013 at 8:56 am
…and here he is in his younger days, back in the ’80s: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/04/make-way-for-dragons/
January 29th, 2013 at 11:03 pm
All their maps have “Here There Be Apes” in locales not yet explored…
October 24th, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Capt. T-Rex just looks so pleased with his life, here in a world “where the age of the dinosaurs never ended.” Maybe it’s because he has more fingers than your average dinosaur? Or maybe he’s thought of a funny joke to tell First Mate Plesiosaurus when he comes back from his swim on the far left of the cover.
August 16th, 2015 at 10:31 am
You guys should see the cover of the sequel, Near-Sighter.
August 18th, 2015 at 8:02 pm
“I claim this land for the crown of Spainosaurus!”