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Post by hoodwinkthenoodnik on Mar 29, 2020 1:05:07 GMT
I don't think it was the same person...Lone wolf changes from a brown haired English teen to a blond Germanic adult after Castle death, and changes again to a young Brendan Frasier lookalike in Captives of Kaag...
I always like the look of the earlier books. Favorite cover easily is the Pacer Kingdom of Terror, with Shadows on the Sand a close second. Anyone know who the artists were?
The Beaver cover art was hit and miss. Cauldron of Fear and Kingdom of Terror? Yes! Chasm of Doom and Shadows on the Sand? No!
The Red Fox books got better as the series progressed but the early book covers were not great, and Flight from the Dark has my least favorite.
What about you all?
Favorite cover art?
Least favorite?
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Mar 29, 2020 9:43:03 GMT
I don't think it was the same person...Lone wolf changes from a brown haired English teen to a blond Germanic adult after Castle death, and changes again to a young Brendan Frasier lookalike in Captives of Kaag...
I always like the look of the earlier books. Favorite cover easily is the Pacer Kingdom of Terror, with Shadows on the Sand a close second. Anyone know who the artists were?
The Beaver cover art was hit and miss. Cauldron of Fear and Kingdom of Terror? Yes! Chasm of Doom and Shadows on the Sand? No!
The Red Fox books got better as the series progressed but the early book covers were not great, and Flight from the Dark has my least favorite.
What about you all?
Favorite cover art?
Least favorite?
Red fox 1 was my favourite cover. The dark magenta background creates the sinister, but not pregnant, atmosphere. |
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Post by Black Cat on Mar 29, 2020 15:35:03 GMT
I think you will find your answers here: linkEDIT Oops, seems there is a new webpage with more details: link |
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Post by hoodwinkthenoodnik on Mar 30, 2020 3:37:23 GMT
I don't think it was the same person...Lone wolf changes from a brown haired English teen to a blond Germanic adult after Castle death, and changes again to a young Brendan Frasier lookalike in Captives of Kaag...
I always like the look of the earlier books. Favorite cover easily is the Pacer Kingdom of Terror, with Shadows on the Sand a close second. Anyone know who the artists were?
The Beaver cover art was hit and miss. Cauldron of Fear and Kingdom of Terror? Yes! Chasm of Doom and Shadows on the Sand? No!
The Red Fox books got better as the series progressed but the early book covers were not great, and Flight from the Dark has my least favorite.
What about you all?
Favorite cover art?
Least favorite?
Red fox 1 was my favourite cover. The dark magenta background creates the sinister, but not pregnant, atmosphere. There is a sinister and possibly pregnant creature (morbidly obese Giak? And here I thought only the hardiest survived...it must be pregnant with atmosphere  on the cover, squatting in front of a faint painted wagon (for some reason--a reference to the players of book 4?) sticking a dagger into the skull of another obviously not human skull, which is bleeding (!?) for some reason. What does this have to do with anything in Flight from the Dark? It's Flight from the Magenta, but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum
I would argue that the Pacer/Berkeley cover captures the spirit of the book better (except for the friendly-looking Doomwolves). There's even a hint of thorny Graveweed at his foot, as if he was about to descend into the Graveyard of the Ancients.
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Apr 4, 2020 13:21:46 GMT
Red fox 1 was my favourite cover. The dark magenta background creates the sinister, but not pregnant, atmosphere. There is a sinister and possibly pregnant creature (morbidly obese Giak? And here I thought only the hardiest survived...it must be pregnant with atmosphere on the cover, squatting in front of a faint painted wagon (for some reason--a reference to the players of book 4?) sticking a dagger into the skull of another obviously not human skull, which is bleeding (!?) for some reason. What does this have to do with anything in Flight from the Dark? It's Flight from the Magenta, but hey, de gustibus non est disputandum
I would argue that the Pacer/Berkeley cover captures the spirit of the book better (except for the friendly-looking Doomwolves). There's even a hint of thorny Graveweed at his foot, as if he was about to descend into the Graveyard of the Ancients.
Just pregnant lah |
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Post by GhostofLandar on Apr 16, 2020 16:54:02 GMT
Berkley/Pacer, especially in the earlier stages was by far the best cover artwork. And no offense to Alberto but still is, or at least the ones that were great are.
Fire on the Water is actually a great one, in addition to Shadow on the Sand (a tanned Lone Wolf slicing a Vordak, awesome!) and Kingdom of Terror. B/P artwork mostly seemed to reflect the final versions of the stories whereas Red Fox seemed like a stylized interpretation of earlier drafts or concepts. And has a sort of saturation of unfocused art compared to B/P. And what was that weird "hat" that they used to obscure LW's face in the art?
B/P got very boring or overly stylized with the Grand Master series but being already abridged one might expect this lack of attention to theme/consistency.
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Post by Black Cat on Apr 17, 2020 17:08:34 GMT
Berkley/Pacer, especially in the earlier stages was by far the best cover artwork. And no offense to Alberto but still is, or at least the ones that were great are. IIRC, Alberto Dallago was asked by Mongoose to always include Lone Wolf in its cover with the Sommerswerd and in combat, or something like that. That was something that the artist found it tought to do after doing it for 7-8 covers. When he got the chance to redo the covers for the Italian version of the books, he had more freedom. They are way better IMO than the ones he did for Mongoose and I hope Holmgard Press will reuse them when they will reprint the full series. I did a thread in another forum with all the new covers he did: link |
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Post by GhostofLandar on Apr 18, 2020 20:07:53 GMT
Alberto's work is fantastic, that isn't my issue at all, it's just I find Fire on the Water, Chasm of Doom, Shadow on the Sand and Kingdoms of Terror to be so evocative of an age and feeling that few other things can compare. That is a time when in spite of there being Darklords, Good and Evil, Doomwolves and ancient kings of evil that somehow, the world was still mysterious and yet intimate at the same time. Which probably says more about me than the artwork  |
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on the cover, squatting in front of a faint painted wagon (for some reason--a reference to the players of book 4?) sticking a dagger into the skull of another obviously not human skull, which is bleeding (!?) for some reason. What does this have to do with anything in Flight from the Dark? 
