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Cover art revealed! Blood and Bone

#21 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:21 AM

View PostJussi, on 21 August 2012 - 09:46 PM, said:

Here it is:

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I'm pretty sure I see a boat on this one, it's just not as prominent as on the other covers. Unless that's just wishful thinking. Anyone else?
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 11:20 AM

LOL at the grip...otherwise it's generic, competent, uninspired - hope they keep the awkward swordsmen about to whack himself in the face for the lulz though.

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 12:59 PM

I'm surprised no one else has noticed that apparently...

Cambodia's ANGKOR WAT is on Wu.

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I mean they aren't even trying to hide that it's a slightly photoshopped / filtered pic from the Angkor complex outside Siem Riep. They even put the characters body in the way of one of the Buddha reliefs so that they wouldn't have to clone it out.


This is....weak. Like the weakest of the covers because of the lack of effort.

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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:21 PM

Pathetic! No wonder I loved the background. I have a book with that in it!
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 01:23 PM

View PostHocknose, on 22 August 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

I think he would be very hot in all that gear...in the jungle!!

No, he is only in chainmail. He left the plate mail at the beach.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:30 PM

View PostPOOPOO MCBUMFACE, on 22 August 2012 - 01:00 AM, said:

Hopefully in this installment we finally discover the identity of the legendary back-facing man who graced the covers of The Crippled God and Orb Sceptre Throne


Isn't he in profile on the cover of OST? He is on mine, anyway. 2/3rds at least.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:33 PM

I bet he has a ship tattoo under that lingerie.

...look at his/her legs... see-thru chainmail???
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:52 PM

What an awful cover way to generic for my taste, but I bet the helm works great for cooking.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 02:58 PM

Looks more a chainmail nightgown than anything you'd want to go to war in.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 03:29 PM

Oh, Steve Stone, you so lazy.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 07:10 PM

What's he so ready to fight off anyway? The massive, vague, jizz-stain smiley face that was poorly layered onto him?
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 07:15 PM

View Postthe more interesting wade-newb, on 22 August 2012 - 07:10 PM, said:

What's he so ready to fight off anyway? The massive, vague, jizz-stain smiley face that was poorly layered onto him?


What has been seen, cannot be unseen.. Now it all looks like a massive joke from Steve Stone.

Except I doubt he could pull that off.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:12 PM

View PostSalt-Man Z, on 22 August 2012 - 03:29 PM, said:

Oh, Steve Stone, you so lazy.

I'm fed up with the Stone covers. tCG had a relevant one with Yedan Derryg, but OST was Generic Dude who nobody could identify after the book was read and this one is almost certainly generic dude and it's so badly done. The Codex books at least had Tavi again and again.

This is so bad that it makes me question the job that the editor is doing in regards to cover art.
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Posted 22 August 2012 - 09:49 PM

It's especially disappointing because I think if it was executed better, it could be really cool. But it isn't. It doesn't even look like a good photoshop job. The stance of the soldier person is really awkward, too.

To me it just looks really hastily put together. At least the FoD cover looked finished.


And it doesn't have a boat.
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 07:26 AM

We're gonna need a bigger boat
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Posted 23 August 2012 - 08:15 AM

Looks like a still from the old children's classic Nightmare!! Haha.
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Posted 24 August 2012 - 07:30 PM

Not. good.
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 08:37 AM

might be Jacuruku?
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 07:50 AM

Fortunately easy enough to fix. Just remove Generic Chainmail Dude and put a boat in instead.
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Posted 26 August 2012 - 08:10 AM

I thought it was alright....
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