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US Midnight Tides cover art!!!

#41 Folken

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:08 PM

The scene is of Karsa at the start of the novel getting ready for this journey and praying to The Seven. I figured it was the Deragoth Statues as well...but oh well
He said that they aren't described all that well and I just started a re-read of HoC, they're described enough to realise its faces and not dogs...but then again I suppose to us things seem more evident than to someone who hasn't read more than a couple of pages.

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:11 PM

Jen said:

But initially he wanted to do the scene with Udinass puting the gold coins on Rhulad's body.

That would have been awesome! That was my second favourite scene from the book (after the throneroom at the end). It sent shivers down my spine when I read it for the first time....and the second...and the third...ad naseum.

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:21 PM

Lokirri;111665 said:

Perhaps it's because it DID'T happen that makes it less of an evil then a bad portrayal of an actual scene.

Well Mr Menhir's not wrong but I think that's partially it .. plus the fact that I saw the cover and liked it before I got to know the characters so there wasn't the same disappointment. Plus a sentimental attachment as the cover helped attract me to the book .. and so the series

Not very logical I know!

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Posted 04 September 2006 - 09:43 PM

Well....it's a "nice" picture...and he's incredibly talented as an artist....but it just doesn't have that edge. It's a little too pretty.......not Malazan enough, not gritty enough to be a true depiction of that scene......all IMHO ofcourse;)

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 09:04 AM

GaesII;111774 said:

I agree, it is a nice picture but it just seems too pretty to be a Malazan cover. It's like trying to show evil in a pretty landscape but falls short of making an impact so you simply get a lovely picture but no feeling behind it. I can't explain it well, I'm sorry

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 10:38 AM

Think you did a pretty good job there Loki

There's very little passion in the image, no intensity.......it is "nice", but that's just not Malazan, is it?

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 02:04 PM

I like it. It seem similar in tone to the UK cover for GoTM (for all of that particular cover's inaccuracies). The clothing seem barbaric enough to me -- I thought the UK cover went a bit overboard there. And I have a feeling of nobility from Trull in particular that was not conveyed by the UK cover (assuming it is Trull who is represented).

In summary: I like it.

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Posted 05 September 2006 - 03:32 PM

It looks remarkably similar to the skull of a red dragon from dnd. I wonder why that is... (/False look of perplexity off)

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 08:32 PM

Can anyone tell me where in Midnight Tides is the scene that's on the cover? I just don't want to flip through 800+ pages to find it and I want to compare it to the new prologue to Reaper's.

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 09:14 PM

Pretty much echoing what everyone else said, my first impressions were wow , which is what you want from a cover. Not exactly accurate but meh, if it draws more people into erikson then it's all good

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 10:22 PM

Dagger;112573 said:

Can anyone tell me where in Midnight Tides is the scene that's on the cover? I just don't want to flip through 800+ pages to find it and I want to compare it to the new prologue to Reaper's.

You can't arsed to look for it....... but you want others to do it?
It's the scene in the Stone Bowl where Fear tells Trull about Kaschan sorcery... as I said at the beginning of this thread .... but perhaps you didn't look all through the thread either?

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Posted 06 September 2006 - 10:36 PM

Pg 89 onwards.

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Posted 07 September 2006 - 04:03 PM

Hetan;112626 said:

No, I know exactly which scene it is, I just don't know where in the book it is. I scanned through a couple times last night and couldn't find it, but I think I was looking through the ice-fields stuff and that's where I went wrong.

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Posted 12 September 2006 - 10:56 PM

That is really awesome!!

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 02:21 AM

I've just seen this at Barnes & Noble. They looked quite good to me, though I had my doubts about the covers of the first two books.

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Posted 18 September 2006 - 01:34 PM

What's up with the hybrid of Karsa at the Seven Faces, and Onrack & Trull at the Seven Hound statues? Because those two scenes have got nothing to do with each other.

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 02:38 AM

Oh pshaw y'all.

I think Todd did a great job. I'm just plain tickled that he actually stopped by the forums to get fans input on the cover. That's some damned nifty thoughtfulnss on his part. And he's got more talent in his pinky than I do in all my hands and feet combined. I e-mailed him a 'thank you and good work' and encouraged him to stop by the boards for the next cover too.

We just need to be more careful to give him ALL the information he would need, every detail possible, if we want near-perfect covers. Doesn't seem too realistic to me. The only artist I've ever noticed capable of making nearly perfect covers for books is Michael Whelan, and I haven't the foggiest idea how that man does it.

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 04:37 AM

That was my doing:) I told him to drop by after we got the House of Chains cover art. Read somewhere on his site he didnt want these posted on the internet without permission so being the nice fellow that I am I asked him:p And then one e-mail lead to another and he was complaining about how TOR isn't helpful with details about character description and the such, so told him to come over. Lord only know why he didn't listen when it came to the Edur descriptions

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Posted 21 October 2006 - 05:34 PM

cauthon;116865 said:

I've just seen this at Barnes & Noble. They looked quite good to me, though I had my doubts about the covers of the first two books.

I dislike intensely the MOI cover. Except for the swords, the man on the cover looks exactly like what you would find in a romance novel. Completely unrealistic, and it doesn't correspond with a scene I remember from the book. The thought of the very dark and gritty MOI (my favorite book of the series so far) depicted in such a romantic way makes me want to puke.