The Sorcerer and the Crystal Staff
Seems a little understaffed to me. (See what I did there?)
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
The Sorcerer and the Crystal Staff
Seems a little understaffed to me. (See what I did there?)
| Should this cover be in the Lousies? |
Were it slightly more legible, this might be something suitable to go on the inside of a fantasy novel. I’ve seen a lot of fantasy novels with maps on the inside as a bit of flavour before the novel, but never one on the front. As a recommendation, the illustrator might try to draw an actual sorcerer with a crystal staff, which might look more fitting for the genre.
Also, it seems a bit odd that the map is drawn with an edge, but the writing that appears to belong on the map is surrounding it as well as on it.
Protip: Nowhere, outside of bad fantasy, is a map labeled “Map”.
Shame the sorcerer didn’t use the crystal staff to conjure some decent art for the cover.
Are we seriously making fun of the work of 13-year-olds now?
. . . born October 4, 1951, . . .
Never mind.
When there’s a question, I try to check consistently; if the work indeed is by a pre-adolescent, I aim my criticism firmly at the parents.
This seems an apt place to mention there’s a new Maradonia book coming out in August.
I think this is the Israel-Palestine “Road Map to Peace” that the Bush Administration was preaching 20 years ago. At least somebody found a use for it.
Someone really badly wants to be J. R. R. Tolkien.