And the excitement just doesn’t end! In addition to voting for the first annual Lousies going on right now, we’re also doing thirty days of New Covers For Old, in which those indie authors who have seen the error of their ways try to demonstrate how well they learned their lesson.
Long-time readers know how this works: What’s displayed is the cover at it was when it was first featured at LBC. Grab the triangle handle and pull it right to see the updated version. Warning: Not every update is an improvement!
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Protecting Rose was a big improvement!
I think that maybe two or three were really improved (my favorite being Dingbat). The rest stayed the same or got worse.
Well, I agree with Tristi that Protecting Rose was a good improvement, although the character looks a lot like Keanu Reeves, to my eyes.
Some of the others–ye Gods, they were actually better before. That’s not to say good, but better. Natural Selection was woefully worse when redone and that’s saying a lot.
I think that Protecting Rose is an improvement only because the first version was so bad. It is still not a very good cover unless the goal was to make “Rose” as unreadable as possible.
I wholeheartedly agree with Hitch that Natural Selection was certainly a step in the wrong direction. Maybe three or four steps.
Petition to rename this site “The Looming Squirrel”.
Denied, but appreciated.
The giant spectral skwirrel lurking behind a serviceman uddenly made me guffaw.