[werewolfv2]

Ok, I'm kinda lost here...

People seem to dislike the US cover allot but love the UK cover..

am I missing something? The US cover smokes the UK one.

US



UK

[Werthead]

Well, how about the fact that the US cover screams, "Generic Fantasy Crud!", what with a bloke with a big sword and a girl in an unfeasible armour bikini? Okay, the British one isn't among the greatest covers in the genre, but at least it summons more of a sense of mystery.

Plus, I like the fact that the UK one doesn't have "BOOK ONE" splashed across it. Within certain bounds, you can read the series out of order and it still makes sense (recall our friend Kalbear from the Westeros discussion who read DG first and looks like he's going for MT second), whilst the US cover demands that you do read it in order.

[caladanbrood]

^^^^^^^^^^^
What he said.
Plus, the UK cover is obviously Rake outside Pale, but what is the US one? At what point in the story does Sorry pout while leaning against Whiskeyjack's horse? Sorry doesn't need anyone protecting her;)

[werewolfv2]

the UK cover brings to mind the Sword of Truth which is a bit of a turn off for me.

I guess that could be Rake if he wasnt on Moons Spawn and had some other sword.

[caladanbrood]

werewolfv2 said:

the UK cover brings to mind the Sword of Truth which is a bit of a turn off for me.

I guess that could be Rake if he wasnt on Moons Spawn and had some other sword.

The US cover brings to mind The Eye of the World. Which is worse;) Although in itself that was an ok book...
And who says Rake isn't on moon's spawn? OK, the perspective looks crap if he is. But thats a rock he's standing on, aint it.

[werewolfv2]

moon spawn must be a sissy little ant hill then eh?

[QuickTidal]

Eh, I'd just like to point out that I thin the dude on the horse on the US cover is likely Paran and not Whiskeyjack.

Also, the UK/Canadian covers RULE! The US covers are definitely generic fantasy type crap. This being said, I LOVE the cover for HOC with the hound statues!!

[Hume]

@ Quicktidal..
No it is Actually Sorry and Whiskeyjack that was confirmed by both Author and Artist(?).
though I think i read somewhere that Sorry got taken out of a later version of the Gotm book.

@ Werewolf.
remember the ledge that Anomander stood when he unleashed waves of magical stuff on to the malaz ? That would probably be that ledge.
If you were to zoom back you probably couldnt cause you would bump into rock or moons spawn, I imagine it going Up, that ledge being at the bottom of moons spawn.

[Arkmam]

HUME said:

though I think i read somewhere that Sorry got taken out of a later version of the Gotm book.

...what?


And yeah, the UK one isn't good, but the US one is extremely bad.

[Folken]

@Arkman - They removed Sorry from the Mass Market Paperback edition of the book.

[werewolfv2]

@ Rul
which is why I never noticed her on my copy and why the US cover is the bestest

[Trotts]

weird, im sure ive never seen the sorry-less cover

but gotta be honest, while the art of the us cover is nice, the cover itself....does nothing. it doesnt make me interested in the book at all, its a guy with a sword on a horse. for all i know it could be a romance novel set to a medieval theme (and that seems even more likely with the sorry version)

granted the uk cover features a guy with a sword again, but...its kinda hard to describe, but its like the focus is very much on the city, and something major is about to happen to the city, and it just draws me in. and the colours look very nice too.

i dunno, thats just me

[garden_rake]

my 10p's worth: the UK GOTM isnt fantastic but its much better than the US version. Personally i don't like having completely obvious pictures of any characters on the front of books, especially in a series such as this, because it implies that they are the most important aspects of the book, and i also prefer to conjure my own image of how a character looks - its part of the fun. DG is still by far the best imo...

[Werthead]

The UK cover doesn't look like Pale to me. It's far too small, more of a fortified castle than a full-scale city. And if it was Pale then Moon's Spawn should be straight overhead and the city should be ablaze from all the damage it suffered in the battle. I would agree that the guy with the sword is Rake, although shouldn't Dragnipur be ridiculously huge and unwieldy-looking, like one of Cloud's more ludicrous blades from Final Fantasy VII?

I'm currently rereading GotM and can find no scene that exact ly matches the cover. Perplexing.

[dktorode]

Look! at the end of the day, both the artists clearly haven't read a scratch of the books, the us version is just plain stereotypical tripe that you will find on any mass produced crap fantisy out there. That is why no body likes it! Its the type of art we find on the books we know are cheap and rubbish!
Yes! the u.k version doesnt make sense...it isnt anamander he doesnt have a silver sword that shoots out lightning and is supposed to have white hair(isnt he?)...and that is NO city i ever saw! looks more like a hill fort or something there are no small buildings just walls and towers that is it!.....
the reason uk is better is not because it make sense(they both dont), its because there is less CHEESE involved in the u.k version...period!
U.K is just plain COOLER!
deal with it!

[stone monkey]

I'm not especially fond of either cover. I actually didn't buy the UK trade edition (depite having seen good reviews) because of the cover - I didn't think anything worth reading would have a cover that derivative (Mysterious Man In Black Waving Magic Sword At City - puhlease!).

That said the US cover's even worse.

And I don't know why people are raving about the proposed US cover for HoC. It looks unbearably naff. The UK cover for HoC is probably my favourite for its aura of implied menace - You look at it and you just know that no-one's going to have a good time in this book.

[Arkmam]

stone monkey said:

And I don't know why people are raving about the proposed US cover for HoC. It looks unbearably naff. The UK cover for HoC is probably my favourite for its aura of implied menace - You look at it and you just know that no-one's going to have a good time in this book.

Where have you seen the HoC US Cover? LINK LINK LINK!

[Imperial Historian]

Here's the link to the thread