Sep 11
Click for full imageWesley Comments: Acorna’s Search, or The Daydreams of Cosplay Fail Girl.
Published 2001
Bonus: dust jacket blurb here!
(Average: 6.66 out of 10)
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Wesley Comments: Acorna’s Search, or The Daydreams of Cosplay Fail Girl.
Published 2001
Bonus: dust jacket blurb here!
(Average: 6.66 out of 10)Loading...
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September 11th, 2013 at 11:21 am
Alright – who’s going to buy acorna.com? For all your unicorn search needs.
September 11th, 2013 at 11:42 am
In McCaffrey’s world, the Acornas search for squirrels!
On second thought, looking at the back cover, do they search for watermelons?
September 11th, 2013 at 11:44 am
Poor girl, doomed to a lifetime of dating guys with low foreheads.
September 11th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Thunderbirds Are Go!
http://thunderbirds.wikia.com/wiki/Thunderbird_2
September 11th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
All I can think is:
ACORNA’S MIGRAINE
September 11th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
“He pulled her toward his manly chest, they embraced with violent passion… and her horn bored into his frontal cortex, killing him instantly. In a moment, Acorna’s life was in ruins.”
September 11th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
But on the bright side, she’ll always be able to find her keys!
Ba-Da-Bum! Thank you, thank you.
September 11th, 2013 at 12:40 pm
If they are at the top of a mountain…then from where is all of that water flowing???
September 11th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
I’ve read these books. None of the cover artists make a serious attempt to paint the heroine. She has FUR, dammit, on her legs. She has WHITE HAIR, not blond. She does Not Like To Wear Clothes. The horn has a specific placement in the middle of the forehead not the top. Dammit.
September 11th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
So Acorna and Maati and Aari and all the other Linyaari fight the Khleevi on narhii-Vhiliinyar. Got it.
September 11th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
The Damning with Faint Praise blurb award goes to:
“Demonstrates the storytelling expertise of co-authors McCaffrey and Scarborough” — Library Journal
September 11th, 2013 at 1:51 pm
“Sigh, if only I could find a hat that fitted other than a backwards baseball cap…”
September 11th, 2013 at 3:01 pm
So, I was like.. eh, this cover doesn’t seem all that unusual, I would probably take this on a trai… and then I saw the hoof and burst out laughing. Laughter is my defining criteria for a Good Show, Sir rating. đ
September 11th, 2013 at 3:24 pm
New Herbal Essence “Acorna” shampoo. Made from the vigrin nectar of the rare lotus blossoms from the exotic Omicron Persei 8.
Only $8.99, now on sale at Target!
Flying Watermelons, $15.99 (limit 2 per customers)
September 11th, 2013 at 3:28 pm
There being no way the horse and rider could have ascended to the precipice on their own, the blimp ship was kind enough to drop them off. Leaving them with the question, “Now what the hell do we do?” And Acorna, reposed among the flowers, pondered their dilemma with sigh after sigh.
September 11th, 2013 at 3:55 pm
@ Sarah J, @ Lulu, Acorna wasn’t the first extraterrestrial female with hooves and furry legs.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0LY_IA6TPrIUF81ekF0ZHhXM2M/edit?usp=sharing
September 11th, 2013 at 3:59 pm
I expect there’ll be a Channel 4 shockdoc on her soon.
September 11th, 2013 at 4:59 pm
The blurb says she has “funny” feet AND HANDS. I feel ripped off. And they went a little overboard with the double vowels.
September 11th, 2013 at 5:23 pm
The tagline is worse than the cover. “The further adventures of the unicorn girl.”
No.
September 11th, 2013 at 6:37 pm
Separated at birth? One chose to live free and wild, one hid her horn beneath a TING! and lived among the non-unicorn people.
September 11th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
So far, I see just one hoof (out of four available limbs, I presume). Nature can be so cruel sometimes.
I wonder if she ever met our old friend: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/04/i-sing-the-body-electric/
September 11th, 2013 at 7:33 pm
@Neal: Maybe that’s an incomplete tag line.
‘The further adventures of the unicorn girl took her to solid ground, where she could stand up for once in her life.’
September 13th, 2013 at 3:40 am
That isn’t her hoof. It belongs to the unicorn who has driven his horn through the back of her skull, the tip of which now protrudes from her forehead. Explains the look on her face, doen’t it? The bulk of his body is hidden by those flowers, her, and her hair.
September 15th, 2013 at 8:11 pm
ACORNA’S SEARCH For Prada Horseshoes
September 16th, 2013 at 2:33 am
Yikes. If this cover art were trying any harder to be girl-targeted, it would have spontaneously morphed into a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper by now.
September 17th, 2013 at 11:52 am
@JoaT. Well, at whom *should* they be targeting a series about a beautiful magic space princess ĂąâŹĆdescended from what can be considered UnicornsĂąâŹÂ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorna
September 17th, 2013 at 9:19 pm
@Rachel. Oh my, now that is just… I don’t even
Holy crap. This was written for adults?
September 25th, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Ohhhh, so that’s what a case of “narwhals upon the vestry” looks like! Okay, got it!
October 9th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
That’s a good piece of art. It has good composition, perfect anatomy, and good (if a little green) colour usage. There’s too much text on the front, but that’s not the artists fault, more the authors preference would be my guess. It’s a poor choice for a website devoted to putting down bad cover art. This isn’t an example of it.
October 9th, 2013 at 9:28 pm
Hi Karl, welcome to Good Show Sir – or to its comments section at least!
You are of course quite right, it is by no means the most cacophonous of covers. In fact, like many others shown, the technical skill on display is excellent.
But there’s something about the hoof that gets me every time.
October 9th, 2013 at 9:43 pm
@Karl: Not bad cover art sir, but bad ‘covers’. There is a distinct difference. The artwork is very well executed indeed. However, as a means of selling the book, well, even though I enjoy reading this author, I recall seeing this in a bookstore and upon looking at the cover thinking ‘Not this time’.
June 1st, 2014 at 4:34 pm
“Prancy Pants Unicorn, Pretty Pants Unicorn, Fancy Pants Unicorn!”
June 2nd, 2014 at 3:16 pm
Would it be impertinent to ask where the unicorn ends and the girl begins?
June 2nd, 2014 at 5:22 pm
@Tom: goodness, no. That’s why it’s called ‘Acorna’s Search’. If it were called ‘Acorna’s Right to Privacy’, that would be a different matter entirely.
June 2nd, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Space Morning Glory!
June 2nd, 2014 at 8:15 pm
The sequel about a snail-girl with a giant single, slimy foot flopped.
June 2nd, 2014 at 9:06 pm
Dude Unicorn 1: Haaaaaay, now that’s what I call a well-turned ankle!
Dude Unicorn 2: Quiet, you horny bastard! Can’t you see she’s sighing?
November 25th, 2015 at 11:09 am
ACORNA Gets Stuck On A Cupboard In Her Kitchen
ACORNA Ruins Another Bedroom Pillow
ACORNA Searches For A Cap With A Hole In Front
ACORNA Pays Injury Compensation To Another Hairdresser
ACORNA… I can do this all day.
July 3rd, 2017 at 10:43 pm
Update: it seems the lady in the background is pursuing a new career.
July 4th, 2017 at 1:28 am
Shouldn’t someone named Acorna be a tree girl?