Comments | simply_shipping: Um, publishers? I think we need to talk.

simply_shipping

Um, publishers? I think we need to talk.

Jul 20, 2011 15:12

Why the fuck does the current cover for Squire focus on the model's chest? For that matter, why is the cover for First Test the only one in the quartet to show the whole face? Page is focused on her sword...which is crossed over her chest. I don't even know what Lady Knight is supposed to be focused on but cropping the picture just above the model' ( Read more... )

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sour_idealist July 20 2011, 21:08:54 UTC

WHAT WHAT WHAAAAT. SMH.

(I have hated every Tamora Pierce cover redesign I've ever seen. The ones I had when I was first getting into her were these really awesome actual pictures, sort of classical-like style, bright colors, plot-relevant details, not very stylized, really right for the tone of the books and the message and all. Basically things that looked like actual illustrations being put on the cover. I miss those.)

simply_shipping July 20 2011, 21:56:24 UTC

I know! When I first saw the (new) cover of Squire I had to stop myself from ripping it off. I wanted my Kel-holding-a-griffin-and-looking-badass-and-bruised cover! A lot of the time I hate cover redesigns for any book, just because it's not what I'm used to any more and how dare they sscrew around with my books and make it so that replacement copies no longer match the rest of the set. But for the Tamora Pierce ones, I actually have legitimate complaints for...almost all of them ( ... )

simply_shipping July 20 2011, 21:57:09 UTC

The Aly covers, not colors. My fingers are clumsy today.

sour_idealist July 20 2011, 22:58:57 UTC

Yeah, changes often bug me too, but then slapping gross male-gaze-y covers on these of all the POSSIBLE THINGS, EXCUSE ME WHILST I SET THINGS ON FIRE WITH MY MIND.

And the Aly ones bug me a lot, both because of the half-face-model thing and because come on, couldn't we could have done something dramatic with Sarai and Dove as well as Aly? But no, white girl on the cover and go.

But I love the Beka covers! And I... haven't actually scene any more recent Circle ones that I can think of, at all. Huh.

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menoreiel July 20 2011, 22:25:41 UTC

I... WHAT?! Sorry, my outrage here is large. Vast even. I know Tamora Pierce doesn't have control over her cover art. But still. Faces please, people. And I love the Kel holding a griffin cover.

Also, hi! long time no see.

simply_shipping July 20 2011, 23:07:09 UTC

Yeah, I have no rage towards Tammy. But her publishers? Yeah, aaaaaaall raged up.

And hi! :D What's new?

palmerjuloe January 4 2015, 17:07:40 UTC

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