That “brace” with the looong drop of blood reminds me of something else that is connected to blood. Of course – every Rorschach card look like Fallopian tubes or giant penises to me.
EricL
7 years ago
Raindrops converted into chocolate syrup????
Lydia
7 years ago
I suppose the drips coming off the title are meant to convey “blue blood” as in royal blood? How symbolic. But then what’s that brown stuff?
Ron Miller
7 years ago
Has anyone taken a look at the book itself? It’s worth a click. I have never seen anything quite like it…
No kidding! All of the interior text is sideways on the pages…and set at such a large point size and with so much leading that I am not surprised that there are 615 pages of text. Added to that are 1254 full-page illustrations—which are placed at 90 degrees to the text pages. These illustrate the text but instead of being placed next to the relevant parts of the story they are all grouped together at the end of each chapter.
And the book includes directions on how to use the table of contents.
Indeed, it’s one-of-a-kind (which, this example just goes to show, is not always a good thing). Seems to me, if he’s going to include that much illustration and that little text, he should have just made it a graphic novel using word bubbles and text boxes for the respective dialogue and exposition. These cheaply rendered “pseudohumans” might not make very good graphics for the cover of a prose novel, but one might be able to manufacture comic books and graphic novels using them.
(Actually, some outfits already make comics and graphic novels using this cheap rendering; it’s just that… well, most of those are pornographic. Like other new visual media technology, though, I expect it’ll eventually find its way to more respectable uses.)
Really? Psuedohumans are predominantly porn stars? Who knew? RK, I’ll just have to defer to your superior expertise in that field. 🙂
You’d think that their pseudo-agents would have warned them against pursuing pseudo-entertainment like comic-book-porn. Ya know? Could ruin any chance that they have of landing a starring role in the next big league animated films…You know how those family-friendly producers are.
Anyone want to dredge the Amazon backwaters for comix/grafk novels with pseudohumans? We need data on porn/nonporn not anecdotes! No volunteers? Buncha pseudohuman haters. Me? I will admit I found my only encounter with PH erotica creepy.
Um, you’re not likely to find much if you go dredging Amazon. Most of the stuff those “pseudohumans” are portrayed doing in those pornographic comics is um… how shall I put this? Well, let’s just say if they had photos of live actors doing what the 3D-rendered characters in those comics do, everybody involved in those comics’ production and publication would be rounded up and sentenced to a decades-long stay in a maximum security prison and be on the sex offender registry forever afterward.
Gary
7 years ago
The title seems to be sweating and there is a puddle of doo-doo butter front and center. I’m sold.
L-Plate Pen
7 years ago
I wanna know which one’s ‘Perversity’!
Naaman Brown
7 years ago
Royals involved in a ruthless chocolate cartel war
That “brace” with the looong drop of blood reminds me of something else that is connected to blood. Of course – every Rorschach card look like Fallopian tubes or giant penises to me.
Raindrops converted into chocolate syrup????
I suppose the drips coming off the title are meant to convey “blue blood” as in royal blood? How symbolic. But then what’s that brown stuff?
Has anyone taken a look at the book itself? It’s worth a click. I have never seen anything quite like it…
Yes, I looked inside. I was confused, to say the least!
No kidding! All of the interior text is sideways on the pages…and set at such a large point size and with so much leading that I am not surprised that there are 615 pages of text. Added to that are 1254 full-page illustrations—which are placed at 90 degrees to the text pages. These illustrate the text but instead of being placed next to the relevant parts of the story they are all grouped together at the end of each chapter.
And the book includes directions on how to use the table of contents.
Indeed, it’s one-of-a-kind (which, this example just goes to show, is not always a good thing). Seems to me, if he’s going to include that much illustration and that little text, he should have just made it a graphic novel using word bubbles and text boxes for the respective dialogue and exposition. These cheaply rendered “pseudohumans” might not make very good graphics for the cover of a prose novel, but one might be able to manufacture comic books and graphic novels using them.
(Actually, some outfits already make comics and graphic novels using this cheap rendering; it’s just that… well, most of those are pornographic. Like other new visual media technology, though, I expect it’ll eventually find its way to more respectable uses.)
Really? Psuedohumans are predominantly porn stars? Who knew? RK, I’ll just have to defer to your superior expertise in that field. 🙂
You’d think that their pseudo-agents would have warned them against pursuing pseudo-entertainment like comic-book-porn. Ya know? Could ruin any chance that they have of landing a starring role in the next big league animated films…You know how those family-friendly producers are.
Anyone want to dredge the Amazon backwaters for comix/grafk novels with pseudohumans? We need data on porn/nonporn not anecdotes! No volunteers? Buncha pseudohuman haters. Me? I will admit I found my only encounter with PH erotica creepy.
Um, you’re not likely to find much if you go dredging Amazon. Most of the stuff those “pseudohumans” are portrayed doing in those pornographic comics is um… how shall I put this? Well, let’s just say if they had photos of live actors doing what the 3D-rendered characters in those comics do, everybody involved in those comics’ production and publication would be rounded up and sentenced to a decades-long stay in a maximum security prison and be on the sex offender registry forever afterward.
The title seems to be sweating and there is a puddle of doo-doo butter front and center. I’m sold.
I wanna know which one’s ‘Perversity’!
Royals involved in a ruthless chocolate cartel war
Anyone else think the drippy blue bracket looks like an IUD?
Considering the title Blood of Kings, one thinks that there should be an Oxford bluebood-drop comma after “Perversity”.