Ah, the iconic publicity still from the classic film noir “The Big Combo,” 1955. Never has so fine and noble an image been put to a more debased use.
There’s one thing right about this cover: Where the perpetrator of this hideous clusterfuck calls himself “Mad.” There are hospitals for that condition, Mr. E.
Sandra Dee
10 years ago
On Smashwords I notice this cover has had a makeover. Instead of the boring ol’ white background it now has a black background with some blue pixels on it. Oh, and the author remembered to put his name on the new one.
Joe
10 years ago
Two pieces of explanation – “an original detective story…” and “(Marlow meets I Robot)”. When you feel the need to write two things on the cover attempting to explain what the book’s about, you ought to realise the cover art’s not doing its job.
Ah, the iconic publicity still from the classic film noir “The Big Combo,” 1955. Never has so fine and noble an image been put to a more debased use.
There’s one thing right about this cover: Where the perpetrator of this hideous clusterfuck calls himself “Mad.” There are hospitals for that condition, Mr. E.
On Smashwords I notice this cover has had a makeover. Instead of the boring ol’ white background it now has a black background with some blue pixels on it. Oh, and the author remembered to put his name on the new one.
Two pieces of explanation – “an original detective story…” and “(Marlow meets I Robot)”. When you feel the need to write two things on the cover attempting to explain what the book’s about, you ought to realise the cover art’s not doing its job.
And quite possibly the manuscript as well.
This guy needs a full-stop-ectomy, stat.
I’m sure he got rights to use those copyrighted images commercially, right?
And it’s “Marlowe” not “Marlow.”
Perhaps he means his uncle, Bob Marlow. 😉
::snort::
So many things wrong with this – I hesitate (to) even mention the missing comma in I, Robot.
Oh yeah – I meant to say (one) more thing: instead of
“(Marlow(e) meets I Robot.)”
I think he could just have easily as written
(Blade(-R)unner, a crappy re-imaginationing.)