Jan 30
Good Show Sir Comments: “You’d drink as much as I do if you had to battle these mini-dragons every day!”
Published 1990
Good Show Sir Comments: “You’d drink as much as I do if you had to battle these mini-dragons every day!”
Published 1990
January 30th, 2017 at 2:37 pm
We can’t stop here, this is bat country. Sort of.
January 30th, 2017 at 3:28 pm
He seems to be floating on an intergalactic toadstool. Also, that wooden knife isn’t gonna slay too many mini dragons!
January 30th, 2017 at 3:35 pm
Bilbo here is what David Duchovny must have looked like c.1985.
January 30th, 2017 at 3:49 pm
Would you rather fight one dragon-sized duck or 20 duck-sized dragons?
January 30th, 2017 at 3:51 pm
Looks like Samwell Tarly is drunk again..
January 30th, 2017 at 4:11 pm
The problems of an unexpected mini-dragon assault while only prepared to slay vampires . . .
January 30th, 2017 at 4:13 pm
“Back foul beasts! Back to the gumball machine from whence you came!”
Some of those really do look like images of rubbery toys superimposed on the artwork.
January 30th, 2017 at 4:42 pm
He should’ve armed himself with a guitar like the dude on the cover of The paths of the perambulator..
January 30th, 2017 at 5:15 pm
Am I really the first person to note the lack of the colour amber on the cover?
It also seems to be made more of wood pulp and less of fossil tree sap.
January 30th, 2017 at 5:43 pm
Is this really such a bad cover? The splash in the upper left corner is dreadful, otherwise I think this is pretty good. It has clarity, detail, humor, design, the text is legible, and the use of contrasting colors is garish but sharp.
January 30th, 2017 at 5:51 pm
@AR: you’re right about the contrasting colours. If you were to read it on the bus, the person next to you wouldn’t be able to interpret the blue/orange contrast, and might not pay attention…hm, we might have a subversion of the usual GSS criteria here.
January 30th, 2017 at 6:20 pm
I predict this exact scene in the next Jurassic Park only with automatic weapons.
January 30th, 2017 at 6:58 pm
@AR—I want to agree with you. I think you make good points here. But then I look at it again and I am disoriented by the lack of context, the lack of any background, the little wooden sword, the question of why dragons need to arm themselves with daggers, spears, and, apparently, a magick wand. Oh well, I’ll give it one thing—unlike many GSS covers at least the light source seems consistent. Maybe this is because the word “Shadows” appears in the title and the artist wanted to make sure the shadows were done up properly.
Perhaps a well placed ting! or two would help me.
January 30th, 2017 at 8:21 pm
@ B. Chiclitz – That mini-dragon with the magic wand also caught my attention. Maybe he’s going around turning people into mini-dragons and that’s why there are so many? And maybe the ones with swords were castle guards or something so they were carrying weapons at the time of transformation…?…
Or maybe I’m reading way too much into a picture of a mildly-irritated-looking guy swatting mini-dragons…
January 30th, 2017 at 8:34 pm
The passion seems to have fled. If only he had brought the Bat-flying lizard repellent spray.
January 30th, 2017 at 9:59 pm
@A.R. this is one of those covers subtly bad. Like, I feel that the artist was a bit too literal in depicting his model. In fact, it looks like he took a photo and did a little photoshop to make it look painty. Also, I don’t know if this man is indeed the titular Knight of Shadows, but red velour just isn’t cutting it. And if you look closely,the shirt has thick horizontal stripes (further supporting my photoshop theory).
January 30th, 2017 at 10:49 pm
Whatever existed before Photoshop (cutting and pasting and painting over?), that’s how this cover came to be. Mr. White got his friend to dress up in red velour and wave a wooden sword, did something to the print, then banged in a bunch of mini-dragons what he stole from reading McCaffrey while stoned.
@Tag Wizard: missing “Roger Zelazny” tag (although he probably hated this), and I guess we don’t have a “shuriken of announcement” tag.