Worst Cover Yet?

[Kidicaris]

I say when Sweet dies, instead of going straight to Hell as he deserves he will simply find himself reborn with the unlikely/unfortunate condition of having the sum of all his WOT covers being tattooed on his body.

 

I thought you were going to say "I say when Sweet dies, instead of going straight to Hell as he deserves he will simply find himself reborn... in one of the covers he has painted."

[Pilz]

It is a totally different spear, which is why I think it's Rand. Mat's spear is in the right picture (longer blade, no danglees).

[farthammer]

Doubtful. Why draw the Ogier to size and then draw Rand short? Here he is only slightly taller than Moiraine or Nynaeve, who are both very short.

[jwillis7]

these seem to me to be the same spear to me

[trench]

I have to agree with everyone who is embarrassed to read a paperback LOC in public, Fabio al'Thor, its just an epic fail.

 

One of the few things to look forward to after aMoL is out is the re-release with the E-book covers. Or could you imagine if Tor could get Michael Whelan to redo them, then we could see what might have been.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

i really just like the british covers. very simple, elegant. i'd love a reissue with good leatherbound books and the very simple design, or better still, just a plain cover on a finely made book.

[Basel Gill]

They kept him for consistency. People like all their books to look more or less the same on the shelf. (Which doesn't explain why they changed the flap format, but oh well.)

 

Except that Sweet has failed to achieve much consistency, even with his own work. Half the characters he uses multiple times don't even look the same. TGH and the roleplay cover both have an Ogier depicted, but they clearly aren't the same Ogier by appearance, even though both are supposed to be Loial. Moraine on EotW looks shorter and older than on TSR, enough to be two completely different people. Then there's Mat's spear, which manages to radically change appearance every single time it is shown.

 

Speaking of Mat, what's with the cowboy look on the covers for CoT and ToM? I haven't read that far yet, but I'm assuming that the WoT setting isn't going to mysteriously change from a medieval world to the Old West. All Sweet had left to do was give Mat a belt with a pair of six-shooters on it. "The Dark One fled through the Aiel Waste, and Mat Cauthon followed."

[Lupy]

Mat Cauthon: The fastest gun in the wet... lands.

[birtikidis]

On the other hand:

All I can say is...badass!

this is pretty badass. are there any other ones like this?

[Sleeper]

this is pretty badass. are there any other ones like this?

Oh snap, brother, you haven't seen the e-book covers? You're in for a treat.

 

Go here and enjoy.

[Basel Gill]

On the other hand:

All I can say is...badass!

this is pretty badass. are there any other ones like this?

 

The question is, are there any of the ebook covers that aren't like this. Answer: No, all of them are badass.

[Elend]

So, I was looking at the Japanese WoT covers a day or two ago, and can I just say they're frickin' great? Why couldn't we just pick the best of those and use them instead of Sweet's work?

 

Though with the ebook covers the idea no longer holds water. Those covers are amazing.

[Terez]

Yeah, TPOD was the least offensive.

Towers of Midnight wasn't too bad.

You must not have seen this eh?

 

 

On the heights, the paths are paved with wood mulch...

So who is that in the Role Playing Game cover? I guess it's Rand (with the Seanchan spear), Loial, and ??? I would say Moiraine, since she is opening the ways. But she is not in blue, so I will guess Nynaeve.

It's an RPG, so I'm guessing they're not supposed to be real characters.

[Songstress]

I couldn't take it anymore.

 

Before:

 

After:

 

 

One down, 11 more Darrell K. Sweet paperback covers to go!

[Terez]

You know, I just noticed that the Tower of Ghenjei is in the background of that one (which is funny because this is one of my favorites). That is a minor plot inconsistency. Forgivable, I suppose, because it's a very small tidbit to gloss over and a nice combination of the two most important bits on that little river trip. IMO the ebook cover would have been more awesome if it wrapped to include Mat on the deck with the dagger, which was probably as important as the other two bits (because that's when we learn that he has it, and why he's acting weird), and Ghenjei would have tied them together nicely - sort of like a triptych of three important things from 'Flight Down the Arinelle', all three major themes of the series - Rand's reaction to channeling, the beginning of the holes in Mat's memories, etc., and Ghenjei, which was not only important to Mat, but also to Rand and Thom, though Rand only entered by the Aelfinn doorway...he also saved Mat's life when the Eelfinn hung him. The only characters as involved with the 'Finns as they were are Moiraine and Lanfear, and maybe Moridin. And the best bit of all in that chapter is the dream that foreshadows the link between Rand and Moridin like a slap in the face.

 

In other words, I think that's one of my favorite covers just because it's from that chapter. 'The Road to Taren Ferry' was not nearly as interesting.

[Puny]

To Songstress:

What cover is that? Not for the e-book?

[Songstress]

To Songstress:

What cover is that? Not for the e-book?

 

That'd be the e-book cover, yes. Resized it to fit the paperback, added a title for the spine of the book in a word processing document, printed it on my color printer, and used an x-acto knife and self-adhesive laminating film to make a shiny new book cover.

 

Soon there will be no more DKS travesties on my bookshelf - my copies of New Spring and Towers of Midnight can have the book jackets removed.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

you know, i don't know if i would have ever noticed the eye of the world with that e-book cover. it's pretty, and if you know the story, it makes more sense. the colors are so muted, though, i don't think it would have caught my eye.

 

lame though it may be, i have a great affection for that original battered sweet cover. it really drew me to that book on the shelf.

[Puny]

To Songstress:

What cover is that? Not for the e-book?

 

That'd be the e-book cover, yes. Resized it to fit the paperback, added a title for the spine of the book in a word processing document, printed it on my color printer, and used an x-acto knife and self-adhesive laminating film to make a shiny new book cover.

 

Soon there will be no more DKS travesties on my bookshelf - my copies of New Spring and Towers of Midnight can have the book jackets removed.

 

Sigh... too much work for me =/ And I don´t have a printer and I dk what an x-acto knife is lol. I guess ima keep my Wheel of time Covers in shiny different colors.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

it's a razor held in a safety device. so a razor would work. do you have places that print copies? they often print files.

 

but it would be too much work for me, too.

[Puny]

it's a razor held in a safety device. so a razor would work. do you have places that print copies? they often print files.

 

but it would be too much work for me, too.

 

Oh.. then I know what kind of knife you mean. But meh.. I guess im happy just reading them. I don´t have Sweet´s covers so...

[Songstress]

it's a razor held in a safety device. so a razor would work. do you have places that print copies? they often print files.

 

but it would be too much work for me, too.

 

After the first one I've figured out a pretty quick routine - the last one I recovered (TDR) took about 15 minutes to do, and only that long because I had to resize the picture again as the book was slightly less wide than the first two.

 

A few creases, a couple of nice straight edge cuts, and the paper part of it's good to go, then the self-adhesive laminate sheets require a bit of precision but not that much actual effort.

 

It'll really be worth it when I can replace Fabio Rand with the awesomeness that is the e-book cover for LOC... and that bizarro DwarfPerrin having a staff meeting cover with Rand getting his hand blown off.

[raitora]

After:

 

 

One down, 11 more Darrell K. Sweet paperback covers to go!

Dramatic before after pics, gogogo!

 

Thankfully I won't have to do this, I have the books with the plain black covers. Boring, but effective.

 

Also, who is that guy in the blue coat on the ToM cover? I get the other two are Mat and Thom, unless I'm mistaken.

[mb]

Towers of Midnight cover I take the 3 are Mat Thom Noal.