Official Gathering Storm Cover Impressions

[Bookstore Guy]

"Kaaaahhhhhhnnnn!"

[Inquisitor]

Meh... it's ok. Not nearly the best.

[Ehran]

Never been that impressed with the cover artwork for this series so this just sort of fits in.

[Vatdoro]

It's as crappy as (almost all) the rest of the covers.

Good thing EOTW had a cool cover. If I didn't know anything about WOT and saw that book on shelf, I would laugh inside and think "man, there's some crappy fantasy out there."

I know you can't judge a book by it's cover, but I find myself doing it all the time.

[Bookstore Guy]

Actually, THE DRAGON REBORN has a good cover as well. I don't understand where the drop in quality comes from - I personally feel it hurts the series.

[ryos]

I liked the cover on Path of Daggers.

This one is pretty meh. I can almost hear Rand shouting, "Perducci!!"

[Vatdoro]

I personally feel it hurts the series.

I agree with you 100% on that one. I think WOT is one of the best fantasy series out there, but I think it has the worst cover art. It would probably be even more popular if the covers were appealing instead of ... awful.

I like the UK covers much more.
http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/Gathering_Storm/Images/tGS_Uk_01.jpg
You'd think Tor would recognize that Sweet's covers are hurting the series and do something simplistic, like the UK version.

I'm assuming Brandon was trying to find something positive to say about it when he said "My thoughts? I like it a lot better than the sketch that was floating around." If that's the best thing he can say about it, then he doesn't care for it either.  Oh well. WOT isn't his baby. We're just lucky he's finishing it.

Someone on Dragonmount made up a caption for the art that made me laugh:

“Blood and ashes!! I said no Traveling inside the house!”

Hahahaha! 

After reading that, the first caption that popped into my mind was:

"Light blind you, Semirhage! I wanted that hand!"

[apbadd]

I really don't want to be mean, but this can't be considered art - it is just too bad.  I know Darryl is able to do better so my question is why didn't he?  Major time crunch?  I have scene artists create much much better work in handful of hours - did Darryl K. Sour really have less than an hour to complete this.  It would be interesting to hear what the explantion for this is. 

[Shard]

The simple answer is DKS just doesn't care, he apparently thinks Cover art is glorified billboards and not art.

[Ogge]

Meh! what did they give the artist? 100 bucks?

[tmiken]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm a 1/4 into Crossroads of Twilight and have not gotten to the part where Rand loses his hand. Why did I look at this cover. WHY!

[Shard]

There you go Mr. Sweet is even spoiling those that haven't even read it yet!

[Patriotic Kaz]

Rand looks constipated and the dragons are crappy looking

[Renoard]

Not to mention the fact that the image is not canonically correct.  He needs to go back and touch it up and have them redo the process plates.  As I remember it, in the book Rand was looking like Thomas Covenent not a one handed William Shatner.

[IngtarWhoStoleChristmas]

This is just awful. I would love to hear what DKS has to say about this.