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Posted 19 March 2012 - 02:04 PM
I like the colors but it's still a pretty bland, boring and generic cover. Was looking fwd to a cover depicting the forging of Dragnipur under a Kharkanas full moon or some such. Oh well. Book will still rule.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 02:17 PM
Lack of chains, dragons and/or blood is fail.
It's nice enough but generic.
It's nice enough but generic.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM
I despised this cover at first. But it is starting to grow on me. With that said, I wish Malazan had killer artwork like all the post Instrumentalities Glen Cook novels. The Dread Empire and Black Company reprints all have wicked Raymond Swanland covers just like his newer Instrumentalities series.
Let's face it, Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
Let's face it, Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 02:12 PM
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:
... Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
...because generic fantasy art from a catalog is cheaper for the publisher.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 04:15 PM
Abyss, on 28 March 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:
... Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
...because generic fantasy art from a catalog is cheaper for the publisher.
True, but this selfsame publisher chose those killer covers for Glen Cook's books.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 06:21 PM
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 04:15 PM, said:
Abyss, on 28 March 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:
... Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
...because generic fantasy art from a catalog is cheaper for the publisher.
True, but this selfsame publisher chose those killer covers for Glen Cook's books.
Yes, but you'll find Ray Swanland covers all over the place (including a bunch of Cook's other series from other publishers) and they do start to look the same after a while. (Also, I bet you didn't know that the German editions of MBotF reuse Swanland's Glen Cook cover art!)
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 06:47 PM
Salt-Man Z, on 28 March 2012 - 06:21 PM, said:
...(Also, I bet you didn't know that the German editions of MBotF reuse Swanland's Glen Cook cover art!)
Which utterly proves my point.
It's hardly rare, but publishers are springing for custom cover art less and less.
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 02:11 PM
The cover is somewhat similar to the Game of Thrones one. I like it though, as these cover arts give off the feeling that the books in question have a darker tone to them.
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 05:02 AM
Abyss, on 28 March 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:
... Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
...because generic fantasy art from a catalog is cheaper for the publisher.
I've seen fan art that is better than some book covers. It's quite silly.
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Posted 01 April 2012 - 04:53 PM
Kanese S, on 31 March 2012 - 05:02 AM, said:
Abyss, on 28 March 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:
Deck of Dragons, on 28 March 2012 - 01:48 PM, said:
... Malazan is uber-geeky and will never appeal to the masses anyway. Why not go all the way and let us have killer covers?
...because generic fantasy art from a catalog is cheaper for the publisher.
I've seen fan art that is better than some book covers. It's quite silly.
Sadly true, some art is so generic that it does a series injustice. The art should reflect the tone of the work in question. When it comes to Malazan art I'm mostly satisfied. Well, at least concerning the UK and US cover art.
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 10:25 AM
Could have done without the "HIS EPIC NEW NOVEL"
A bit better, though. Not excellent, but better.
A bit better, though. Not excellent, but better.
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 04:24 PM
It's a creepier vibe. However, why is there a human skull on the cover of a novel ostensibly about the Tiste Andii?
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 05:21 PM
For as bland and generic as the first one was, I liked it a lot better.
"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 09:04 PM
hmmm, image of the old cover is gone...
new cover is boring, we must needs have fantastical subject matter
perhaps my kid will make me a crayon drawing to use as a dust cover, she likes dinosaurs
new cover is boring, we must needs have fantastical subject matter
perhaps my kid will make me a crayon drawing to use as a dust cover, she likes dinosaurs
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 11:04 PM
is that supposed to be the whatever-it-is? the eye of mother dark thing? what was it called? i think it sounded like tesserae...
edit: the background i mean
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 11:06 PM
HiddenOne, on 25 May 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:
perhaps my kid will make me a crayon drawing to use as a dust cover, she likes dinosaurs
Do you think she can do something like a jhorligg or another Kurald Galain type monster?
I think Erikson would be tickled pink to see that cover image.
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