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Bibliomancer Comments: I’ll take “Penis Mightier Than The Sword” for $100 Alex!

Published 2010

(Average: 6.19 out of 10)

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Tag Wizard Comments: Nicola Alter writes the Thoughts on Fantasy blog and last year she set out to create an over-the-top fantasy book cover including all the standard fantasy clichés. As she wrote:

“I’ve encountered a few covers that take it a bit far, but I thought it’d be amusing to go even further, and have a bit of fun with the tropes of my favourite genre… so here is my recipe for a no-holds-barred, all-boxes-ticked, epic high fantasy book cover (accompanied by examples from the most clichéd design I can muster).”

Well, we here at Good Show Sir! consider ourselves the experts on bad covers. So we’ll be the judge of that!

So check out her post where she walks you through the steps:

How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover

And be sure to visit the rest of her site and welcome her to join us here at Good Show Sir: the home of ethnic and erudite book cover curation.

Published 2017

(Average: 8.33 out of 10)

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Rick Deckard Comments: Oh shit, it’s the wife!

Published 1994

(Average: 5.92 out of 10)

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Mosquito Wenzi Comments: “I’ve got the Ting! I’ve got it!”

“Yeah, dear, you’ve got it. Now look Behind You!”

Published 1986

(Average: 6.83 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Comments: Party in the front, business in the back! It’s a reverse mullet!

Published 1982

(Average: 6.75 out of 10)

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Dexter Comments: “LEEROY JENKINS!!!”

Published 1983

(Average: 7.19 out of 10)

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Tat Wood Comments: I can’t come up with anything more damning than the blurb (crummy punctuation and all):

Post-Holocaust Paris is a pretty seedy stand-in for the original, but what can you expect when the government’s main aim is Orgasm Prevention, and when the national hero is wandering around in Nowhen…

But things are changing! Rumor hs it that the Timetraveler is coming back. In a few months. At which point, Time itself will come to an end…

Published 1980

(Average: 7.31 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Legal Direction: Tell Huxley to call off his lawyers. I’m changing the title to “Brand New World”.
Published 1964

(Average: 7.25 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Comments: Eeek. A mouse.

Published 1978

(Average: 7.36 out of 10)

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Tag Wizard Comments: Skulls a-Poppin’, Jazz Hands, Eye-yi-yi, BEHIND YOU! … keep spinning that tag wheel Mr Morrow. Every one’s a winner!

Published 1972

(Average: 7.59 out of 10)

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