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HoA paperback cover
« on: April 29, 2009, 09:41:42 PM »
I know I'm late to the party, but I have to say that I vastly prefer the paperback cover art to the hardcover. To be honest, I'd love to get the first two as prints. The third? I can't find a decent picture of it but it looks tasty from the tiny Amazon thumbnail.

Wait...found one!

http://us.macmillan.com/theheroofages

I don't know if Christian McGrath is the artist. I liked the HoA hardcover more than the others, but far less than the paperbacks. I haven't read Warbreaker but its cover looks very, very nice.

Anyone who has the book, or who can find the blasted information on the tubes, clue me in on the cover artist's identity?

Thanks!

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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2009, 10:09:58 PM »
I prefer the hardcover one just a bit (although this one is more in sync with the first two).  :-\
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2009, 10:11:38 PM »
The cover is by Christian McGrath again.

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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2009, 10:45:58 PM »
I really don't like the paper backs period...the first final empire i thought was cooler, and i don't find Vin attractive on the paperbacks and she is supposedly stunning...
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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 10:47:08 PM »
I find her kind of…ugly, actually.  :-\
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2009, 11:06:52 PM »
Her description is hot though...that's why i don't like the paperbacks
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2009, 11:08:15 PM »
LOL man you crack me up. ha!
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2009, 11:10:35 PM »
???? Don't you remember a bunch of people finding her so even before the LR's death...it wasn't just Spook and Elend...not all cute girls have big breast.

(yes Shaggy you can gigglie i said breast)
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2009, 11:51:51 PM »
I'm never fond of covers that rely too strongly on photographic model reference. I do like the paperback covers in that they're more character-accurate in certain terms than the previous covers (mist-skirts?), but I agree that this Vin doesn't look quite right to me, either... too bony in the cheeks, and her hair is too thick in the back.

But what the hell, I'm not impartial by any means.  ;D
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2009, 12:04:25 AM »
 >:( Please don't confuse my maturity with your lack of it, Kaz.

And you spelled 'giggle' wrong.
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2009, 01:07:30 AM »
I don't know, I really like the black-white contrast in between Elend and Vin
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2009, 07:39:08 AM »
The only part of the cover I liked was Elend.
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2009, 11:18:13 PM »
Poping in here!  :D I like how Elend looked as well. Vin just looks strange. I don't like the hard cover version. It just makes Vin look like a child.
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #13 on: May 02, 2009, 12:35:56 AM »
The Vin on the paperback cover looks so much like one of my cousins that it causes this weird cognitive dissonance whenever I see it. Really kind of disturbing.

I thought the paperback cover for Final Empire was the worst. Oddly deformed Kelsier + Grim Reaper Inquisitor = FAIL.
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Re: HoA paperback cover
« Reply #14 on: May 02, 2009, 05:42:27 AM »
That was an oddly deformed Vin.
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