May 15
Click for full imageBob Comments: I volunteer in an Oxfam bookshop which provides a happy hunting ground for dubious scifi and fantasy cover art! I came across a load of stuff whilst having a clear out of old stock the other day. I’m especially impressed with The Dragon Waiting, it seems to be missing a leg and has speared itself through its abdomen with its own tail, a truly troubled beast….
Published 1985
(Average: 8.40 out of 10)
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May 15th, 2015 at 10:15 am
Lovely green grass. Hats off to the gardener.
May 15th, 2015 at 10:50 am
That’s no thunderclap, Rog, it’s the dragon falling over again.
May 15th, 2015 at 12:34 pm
There’s something heartbreaking about the beast, isn’t it? The pathos in the eye, the single foot, the wattle hanging down past his clavicles. You want to embrace him, don’t you? Plant a big kiss on his cheek and say you love him as he is.
May 15th, 2015 at 2:12 pm
More like The Dragon Prancing.
May 15th, 2015 at 2:38 pm
You have to admire his reptilian sang froid: faced with imminent danger he launches into his Jimmy Durante impression.
Or maybe Ron Mael from Sparks.
May 15th, 2015 at 2:45 pm
Dragon is waiting on a missing piano. Looks like he’s ready to belt out a song.
May 15th, 2015 at 3:03 pm
Looking at the Wikipedia page it sounds like an interesting read.
Armored knight on a naked horse. Sounds like a good battle plan to me.
May 15th, 2015 at 9:21 pm
That is, without fail, the worst dragon artwork I have ever seen.
May 15th, 2015 at 11:20 pm
It looks less like a dragon than a deformed frilled lizard.
The horse also looks as if its suffering anatomical issues.
And the knight–he looks so depressed and uninterested! “Other knights get to battle real dragons. I got a deformed lizard, and a deformed horse. Life is so unfair…”
I have a feeling the thunderclap happens when you slam the book shut in disgust.
May 17th, 2015 at 8:09 am
That’s a damn long tail.
And thunderclap or not, that’s a damn weird way to print the quote.
May 19th, 2015 at 7:43 am
THE DRAGON WANTING
May 21st, 2015 at 5:25 am
@Fred, it is a very good read, but the cover is so bad you’d be less embarrassed to read it in public if hid it in in a porn magazine..
May 25th, 2015 at 4:55 pm
This was *such* a good book, and that is *such* a bad cover.
Poor John M. Ford.
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May 9th, 2017 at 11:17 am
Art director: “It’s a thunderclap of a book!”
Artist: *draws a one-legged special needs dragon on the cover*