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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #60 on: June 06, 2009, 05:40:33 AM »
Haven't the Dabel Brothers proven that the artwork can match the writer's vision?  My biggest problem with the cover art is that 1) it makes no attempt whatsoever to resemble the characters as they are described in the books - Why is Lan wearing a helmet and his sword strapped to his back on the cover for The Eye of the World; 2) There is no consistency in the characters from cover to cover - why does Perrin look COMPLETELY different on the Winters Heart cover than he does on the cover for The Dragon Reborn? and 3) why did I spend 30 minutes staring at the cover of Knife of Dreams trying to figure out who the people were?  Shouldn't we be able to pick up the twelfth book of a series and know without a moment's pause who the cover characters are?

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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #61 on: June 26, 2009, 07:23:14 PM »
Agree that the cover art for this is just awful.  I haven't paid all that much attention to the other covers, the only one that stands out is Path of Daggers, the rest I would categorize as either mediocre or not good.  I remember thinking that on the Crown of Swords cover Rand looked different than on the other covers ... kind of like a skinny version of Stephen Baldwin (ugh).  In general the other covers seem very passive (i.e., Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos).

Thinking back to the cover art of the fantasy series I read as a kid, I remember really enjoying the original Shannara cover art from the first couple books.  I was not a fan of the original Belgariad artwork.  The Dragonlance artwork was pretty good, even if the books were just okay.  I think that the Xanth artwork was more hit than miss.

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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #62 on: June 26, 2009, 10:12:17 PM »
Absolutely Terrible. Just like all the other WoT books. This makes the series look bad- Worse even than previous covers.

Terrible. T-R-B-L Terrible.

I'm pretty sure that cover deserves an Attack of the Show Style EPIC FAIL!
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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #63 on: June 27, 2009, 12:02:04 AM »
what do you mean all the cover are bad EotW has a good cover and so does SR and PoD
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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #64 on: June 27, 2009, 08:08:20 AM »
Commented elsewhere about the art, but meh, well... it's the same style as the others, I guess.

Except with mystery tavern wench behind him.
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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #65 on: June 28, 2009, 04:19:16 AM »
Maybe Mystery Tavern Wench is Elminedra (as opposed to Min).
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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #66 on: July 23, 2009, 08:26:49 PM »
Not a fan, though I've never been a huge WoT follower in the first place. The art for the books has always looked to be generic high fantasy, so I guess it fits in with the ho-hum theme of the rest of the series. =\

Would have liked to see a better cover for what are surely to be the best books in the run, though. xD

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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #67 on: July 23, 2009, 09:00:48 PM »
It's just plain awful.

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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #68 on: July 25, 2009, 04:18:47 AM »
Not a fan, though I've never been a huge WoT follower in the first place. The art for the books has always looked to be generic high fantasy, so I guess it fits in with the ho-hum theme of the rest of the series. =\

Would have liked to see a better cover for what are surely to be the best books in the run, though. xD
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Re: Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions
« Reply #69 on: July 31, 2009, 08:17:33 AM »
If they had just hired Michael Whelan to do the cover art, we would all be suitably impressed.