{"id":10934,"date":"2012-12-06T09:50:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2012-12-06T15:19:17","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T23:19:17","slug":"cover-art-for-requiem-by-ken-scholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-for-requiem-by-ken-scholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art for Requiem<\/em> by Ken Scholes"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Requiem

Art by Chris McGrath<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Well, I applaud Tor for putting an old(ish) guy on the cover, and leaving his face unobscured by a silly cloak\/hood. Otherwise, it looks a lot like a Dresden Files<\/em> novel, and not a whole lot like the awesome covers that the series originally debuted with. I don’t mind Chris McGrath’s art, but I think it’s a poor fit for Scholes’ series.<\/p>\n

\"\"And, to meet my ‘obscure videogame culture reference of the day’ quota, the man’s a dead-ringer for Jeff Green (not this Jeff Green<\/a>), formerly of Computer Gaming World<\/em> Magazine, then Games for Windows: The Official Magazine<\/em>, then Electronic Arts, then PopCap Games, then, by virtue of the universe’s perverse sense of irony, Electronic Arts, again, thanks to their acquisition of PopCap Games. *Phew*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I applaud Tor for putting an old(ish) guy on the cover, and leaving his face unobscured by a silly cloak\/hood. Otherwise, it looks a lot like a Dresden Files novel, and not a whole lot like the awesome covers that the series originally debuted with. I don’t mind Chris McGrath’s art, but I think… Requiem<\/em> by Ken Scholes”>Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[31,26],"tags":[456,1283,38,453,455,454,44],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cover-art","tag-chris-mcgrath","tag-cover-art","tag-fantasy","tag-ken-scholes","tag-requiem","tag-the-psalms-of-issak","tag-tor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n