I think we’ve had this one before; not that I’m complaining. We could have some fun with the occasional rerun around here since the comments sections on these posts automatically get closed after a while.
I think I see a CLUE. The vic has recently eaten at one of those steak places that cuts off your tie if you wear one.
Only they missed. Maybe they are the ones who made that whole in his head.
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
The cover still has three obviously cut’n’paste 2-D people looking in three different directions and not one looking at the guy floating in the aquarium tank with a hole in his forehead.
Was Mr. Shumate expecting the cover to be redone by now to show what three things the people were seeing that was more attention worthy than a dead guy floating among the fishes?
Not everyone will respond to criticism and improve their covers, like Norman Boutin did. Some just don’t care.
red
9 years ago
I wonder if that beer mug that is holding itself where there is no handle is patented.
Naaman Brown
9 years ago
3rd or 4th look.
Come to think of it, I don’t recall seeing wine splash out of a glass like that, curling around like that, but the startled guy appears to be looking at something else, anyway.
The hand on the beer mug stops at the wrist: it should be visible through the glass cut’n’pasted over where the wrist should be because you can see through glass and the green liquid. (If you have a bar with a dead guy floating in the aquarium tank unnoticed, then a beer mug held by a disembodied hand would not be surprising, now would it?)
Oh, alas poor RJ…I knew him well. (Really. Full Disclosure: He’s a former client of ours. His old covers weren’t the bomb, but I liked them quite a bit more than I do this.)
Bummer. Nice guy. He was unhappy with our updated pricing, after Amazon, et al, made making ebooks a lot harder (media queries, images in HD issues, etc.), and went his own way, but he seems a thoroughly decent fellow.
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I think we’ve had this one before; not that I’m complaining. We could have some fun with the occasional rerun around here since the comments sections on these posts automatically get closed after a while.
Yeah, it’s a classic. 🙂
You’d have thought the cover would have changed by now, but noooooo…
I think I see a CLUE. The vic has recently eaten at one of those steak places that cuts off your tie if you wear one.
Only they missed. Maybe they are the ones who made that whole in his head.
The cover still has three obviously cut’n’paste 2-D people looking in three different directions and not one looking at the guy floating in the aquarium tank with a hole in his forehead.
Was Mr. Shumate expecting the cover to be redone by now to show what three things the people were seeing that was more attention worthy than a dead guy floating among the fishes?
Not everyone will respond to criticism and improve their covers, like Norman Boutin did. Some just don’t care.
I wonder if that beer mug that is holding itself where there is no handle is patented.
3rd or 4th look.
Come to think of it, I don’t recall seeing wine splash out of a glass like that, curling around like that, but the startled guy appears to be looking at something else, anyway.
The hand on the beer mug stops at the wrist: it should be visible through the glass cut’n’pasted over where the wrist should be because you can see through glass and the green liquid. (If you have a bar with a dead guy floating in the aquarium tank unnoticed, then a beer mug held by a disembodied hand would not be surprising, now would it?)
OK, I give up. Where’s the Waldo?
Oh, alas poor RJ…I knew him well. (Really. Full Disclosure: He’s a former client of ours. His old covers weren’t the bomb, but I liked them quite a bit more than I do this.)
Bummer. Nice guy. He was unhappy with our updated pricing, after Amazon, et al, made making ebooks a lot harder (media queries, images in HD issues, etc.), and went his own way, but he seems a thoroughly decent fellow.
I swear I’m getting senile…
It’s bad-cover-induced brain-artery clogs. That’s what does it, bruddah.
Your arch nemesis is really the ‘Related Covers’ section. Gives you away every time.