Mar 07
Click for full imagesGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Men in capes having a knife fight. Just what I asked for but… only one Ting!? Well alright… we best make the font shiny silver so people might be able to get a real Ting too!
Published 1990
(Average: 6.04 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
March 7th, 2014 at 9:37 am
After thirty-five years working together Darryl Hall and John Oates were morphing into each other.
March 7th, 2014 at 9:47 am
Extra points for double-beard-wielding,and more points available if the shiny shilver font is actually embossed.
Kudos to the artist for not showing a rose anywhere in the image. How those artists must struggle to resist that temptation.
March 7th, 2014 at 10:23 am
“Okay, looky likey, one of these beards is going to have to come off!”
March 7th, 2014 at 10:32 am
It was a tender and compassionate morph. Apart from the dagger.
March 7th, 2014 at 11:18 am
There’s even a song about this cover (courtesy of Lemon Demon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXZjhHwndOE
March 7th, 2014 at 2:02 pm
Who put THIS up?? I’d give it extra cool points for the epic facial hair alone!
March 7th, 2014 at 2:08 pm
bad grappling form here. blue cape mullet man is about to get stabbed in the head. all his opponent has to do is roll his wrist. well, he could if they weren’t frozen in that pose for the artist. i am loving the action pose utterly lacking in any sense of dynamic motion.
March 7th, 2014 at 2:09 pm
nanananananananananana Batman!
March 7th, 2014 at 3:52 pm
Rose of the Prophet = Prophet of the Rose
“The Paladin of the Night” = “The Night of the Paladin.”
There’s no difference! It’s just as bad in either direction.
I love reversible things, like socks and gloves and stuff.
March 7th, 2014 at 4:12 pm
Weis and Hickman? Where are the dragons? There aren’t any dragons. Do these guys change into dragons? Is the rose, prophet or paladin a dragon or ride a dragon? It’s Weis and Hickman! WHERE ARE THE DRAGONS!!! At least they used paladin instead of knight because ‘The knight of the night’ would have been just plain silly but ‘The dragon knight of the night’ or ‘The dragon of the night’s knight’ or whatever wouldn’t be silly because it’s Weis and Hickman. Maybe the dragons are on the back cover? I suggest a ‘dragonless’ tag for any future Weis and Hickman books sans dragons but I won’t believe it anyway because it’s Weis and Hickman and there must be a dragon in it someplace.
March 7th, 2014 at 4:20 pm
There, there, Fred, of course it’s *all* about the Prophet’s dragon, Rose.
March 7th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
“But they are knife fighting. Not gay dancing!”
— Me … at 13 … to the school bully who pulled this out of my backpack.
@Tag Wizard – We need an Ambiguously Gay Duo tag. Have the interns add it to all the appropriate covers.
March 7th, 2014 at 4:54 pm
@Fred—Of course you’re right; it has to be in there somewhere. Maybe if you hold your computer up over your head at just the right focal length, then cross your eyes a little, the dragon will appear, particularly if you chant “Rose is a rose is a rose is a . . . dragon!” as you are doing it. I think maybe it’s hiding in the ting.
March 8th, 2014 at 7:39 am
So it’s this easy:
“[INSERT OBJECT] of the [INSERT TITLE]”.
Rose of the Insurance Salesman
Cellphone of the Paladin
Ring of the Ding-A-Ling
March 8th, 2014 at 2:28 pm
@Bibliomancer. No, they are *not* fighting! Look at them.
I see two possibilities here:
a.) They’re working out the choreography for the ballet, “Rose of the Prophet- Act II: The Paladin of the Night”.
b.) The chap on the left is a bit touched in the head. You know, basically harmless, but now and then he has a funny turn and has to be calmed down by his long-suffering brother. (The family resemblance is obvious.)
March 8th, 2014 at 5:53 pm
The Weis & Hickman finances seek another boost with this money-making book…Rise of the Profit.
March 8th, 2014 at 10:56 pm
Is ‘paladin of the night’ a very arch term for ‘rent-boy’?
March 9th, 2014 at 6:10 pm
@Tat: There are two blue sperm facing down each other on the cover. What do you think then?
March 14th, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Boys, why don’t you hang up your cloaks on those hooks behind you? You’ll be so much more comfortable.
April 22nd, 2015 at 9:10 am
The priest: “Are you quite done with your hijinks? Could we get on with the service?”
March 6th, 2016 at 11:27 am
Sick Match and Watery Margarine
TREE-TOP PROSE OF H.H.
Volume II — Fight the ant on helipad