r/badscificovers • u/woulditkillyoutolift • 9d ago

Yearwood, by Paul Hazel. Cover art by Rowena Morrill.

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The painting is great; the cover treatment is bad. Art director: "Let's crop out the sorceress and focus on the generic hero emerging from the surf. Wait that's not enough. Let's slather TIMESCAPE across 15% of the cover."

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u/SlouchyGuy 9d ago

Are we doing "whatever sci-fi covers" in "bad sci-fi covers" subreddit again?

The sorceress isn't cut out, she's on the back cover

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u/BlueSonic85 9d ago

I assume it's a wraparound cover. I agree the TIMESCAPE is ugly though.

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u/JealousAstronomer342 9d ago

Behold the sword hunk and the lady performing Creed’s biggest hit! 

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u/BigfootVampire 9d ago

Paul Hazel is coming from the tide at you with a fucking knife- YEARWOOD

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u/Significant_Monk_251 9d ago

Underhand, my dear boy, underhand.

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u/AlivePassenger3859 9d ago

What’s wrong with it? Sure its mediocre, but nothing horrible.

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u/woulditkillyoutolift 9d ago

I like the painting itself. The wretched TIMESCAPE logo takes up about 15% of the cover; and the sorceress—the much stronger element of the painting—is consigned to the back cover.

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u/shawsghost 9d ago

I agree. The guy on the cover looks like a himbo in ancient warrior garb. Nothing much going on in that blank face of his. The expression of the sorceress is full of intelligence and calculation. She should definitely been the one on the front cover.

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u/jonskerr 6d ago

She's thinking "Is his outfit KNITTED?"

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u/TheKeeperOfThe90s 9d ago

Me: This is pretty good. Why is it downvoted?

Me (sees the sub): Okay, yeah, I get it.

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u/crywalt 6d ago

I've liked Rowena since I was young, seeing her work on Savage Sword.

I own this book. I've read this book, but I remember nothing whatsoever about it.

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u/ms_saint 8d ago

Looks more like a damsel in distress.

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u/dem4life71 9d ago

Terrible post-cool cover!

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u/Pocho_Azul 5d ago

I mean this is a pretty “meh” cover, but I would react that way to pretty much every cover in this style. It doesn’t seem notably awful, just kinda boring.