{"id":4941,"date":"2010-11-05T13:26:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2010-11-05T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:27:15","slug":"cover-art-black-halo-by-sam-sykes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-black-halo-by-sam-sykes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art | BLACK HALO by Sam Sykes"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/black-halo-by-sam-sykes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/black-halo-by-sam-sykes.jpeg\" alt=\"BLACK HALO by Sam Sykes\" title=\"BLACK HALO by Sam Sykes\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" class=\"center\" \/><\/a>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/booktionary.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/cover-sample-chapter-from-black-halo-by.html\">Oh, barf.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Sam&#8217;s a good friend of this blog (seriously, he&#8217;s behind one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/interviews\/interview-sam-sykes-author-of-tome-of-the-undergates\/\">favourite interviews I&#8217;ve conducted<\/a>), but I can&#8217;t give him (or, more accurately, his publisher, <em>Gollancz<\/em>) a free pass here. Seriously, this cover hits on every metric for what&#8217;s wrong with Fantasy art today. Overly aggressive and poorly representative of the Fantasy genre? Check. Bland typography? Check. Uncanny valley? Check. Flaming water (wait, what?)? Check. Insane, weird pull-quote that tells you absolutely nothing about the book? Check. Poorly photoshopped H&#038;M model with basic glow filter attached? CHECK CHECK CHECK!<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate the continuity with the <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/cover-art\/cover-art-synopsis-tome-of-the-undergates-by-sam-sykes\/\">series&#8217; previous cover art<\/a>, but here&#8217;s hoping Lou Anders will have the sense to put a better cover on the <em>Pyr Books<\/em> edition when it&#8217;s released in North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, barf. Now, Sam&#8217;s a good friend of this blog (seriously, he&#8217;s behind one of my favourite interviews I&#8217;ve conducted), but I can&#8217;t give him (or, more accurately, his publisher, Gollancz) a free pass here. Seriously, this cover hits on every metric for what&#8217;s wrong with Fantasy art today. Overly aggressive and poorly representative of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-black-halo-by-sam-sykes\/\" title=\"ReadCover Art | BLACK HALO by Sam Sykes\">Read more &raquo;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-cover-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-black-halo-by-sam-sykes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cover Art | BLACK HALO by Sam Sykes - A Dribble of Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh, barf. 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