Comments on: Cover Art | The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (UK Paperback)

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Cover Art & Synopsis | Corvus by Paul Kearney | A Dribble of Ink — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:00:42 +0000

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By: Cover Art | Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie (UK Paperback) | A Dribble of Ink

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:44:47 +0000

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By: jon Lyndon

jon Lyndon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:04:55 +0000

Both covers are excellent; I have no problem w/ two editions. This is a Best/Big selling book & you can be certain it will be reissued again in a couple/few years. I’m a collector (as well as reader) & I like having both covers: the leatheresque olde burnt & torn map quality of the first copy to the gritty Logen w/ sword & forest background cover as Abercrombie himself says, “kudos to the art team at Gollancz for putting together a character based cover that doesn’t suck!” Yea! If you don’t like one & only like the other, well, buy the one you like. Someone used the patha-silly-etic literary cliché “if it ain’t broke…” (nope; no! No offense), right, whatever. You can’t really break a book anyway, eh? Use ‘em don’t abuse… Both editions (again) are excellent. Cheers!

By: Cover Art | ‘Before they are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie (UK Paperback) | A Dribble of Ink

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:49:41 +0000

[...] new cover for Before they are Hanged, the second volume of his First Law Trilogy. Similar to the paperback release of The Blade Itself, this new cover is a definite departure from the original cover. That said, I’m a fan of [...]

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By: sean

sean — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:15:14 +0000

Eh, I like the cover, but not for this book.

I absolutely loved the other 3 covers. 3 of the best looking books on my shelf. I really wish they would have stayed with the same theme, but i suppose change was inevitable.

Lastly, if you are going to highlight “master nine-fingers” so on the cover, do a better job of showing his missing finger.

Personally, i would have rather seen something in the lines of the other covers, with perhaps a bloody handprint complete with missing finger to round out the image.

Aren’t we all critics.

By: edifanob

edifanob — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:03:37 +0000

I like the cover even it doesn’t look like “my” Logan. I’m curious to see the San dan Glokta cover.

By: Kendall

Kendall — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:01:35 +0000

Well, the cover’s not aimed at y’all who’ve read the book; it’s aimed at people who haven’t read it. So its inaccuracy (?) isn’t a big deal, I’m sure, in marketing-land….

I like the cover, which is odd since it looks like a Western, not a fantasy. I haven’t read the book (and I know it’s a fantasy, not a Western . This “Logan” person is a bit handsome and smouldering, as James says–but also looks scarred and/or weatherbeaten, and like he’s had a pretty rough life and won’t take shit from anyone. I don’t know if that’s accurate or not….

By: aidan

aidan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:41:38 +0000

‘Sexy’ is the last word that should ever be used to describe Logen. Which is a problem!

By: Gabriele

Gabriele — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:12:14 +0000

I think he’s sexy on that cover.

By: James (Speculative Horizons)

James (Speculative Horizons) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:01:56 +0000

It’s ok – it does the job, which is to appeal to genre readers who maybe were put off by the superior textured original artwork (and who don’t go online, so have no idea of what they’re missing).

That aside, I’m not really a fan. I’m generally not a fan of this sort of cover anyway, although admittedly I’ve seen far worse. Still, Logan Ninefingers – in my mind – doesn’t look like that!

By: aidan

aidan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:59:58 +0000

Afront – I like it, but I definitely agree with you that it seems silly to change something that ain’t broken. The original artwork was nearly perfect.

By: Afront

Afront — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:01:11 +0000

First impressions: that’s awful, I don’t believe this is for the UK market. The guy on the cover is far too handsome and smouldering to be Logan Ninefingers. Sorry, but to me it makes perhaps the finest fantasy trilogy of the decade look like a piece of cheap, generic swords ‘n’ sex pulp.

By: James

James — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:05:04 +0000

I really like the artwork. Not so big a fan of the typography. Most of the colors are darker or a muddled gray, so the copper of the title sticks out like a sore thumb.

Still, it is many times over far greater than what Orbit has pulled off for Joe’s other book. Let’s hope they take notice.