Is that a foot? It’d be awesome if that was a foot.
Naaman Brown
8 years ago
That hired gun is armed with an over/under 12ga shotgun of the modern Italian trap or skeet sport style hardly an Old West choice.
The empty hand grasping air in front of the gun’s forward stock (forearm) is a weird touch too.
This cover does sorta remind me of the AMC ad for Longmire. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1136112896/tt1836037
Too bad they had to cut’n’paste an anachronistic gun and floating hand to clutter up a good idea.
L-Plate Pen
8 years ago
Is it just me or does his hand look like it’s on backwards?
It’s hard to see on a palm device. Using a laptop or desktop with a fair size screen, click on the jpeg for the cover. Between the two hands is what I identify as a Beretta S5B over/under double barrel shotgun, model introduced in 1977.
It’s a lot of work for little reward, to identify a badly rendered detail on a lousy book cover, but, as a widowed retiree with cat I have time for trivial pursuits.
Yes I’m using the cheap Kindle Fire which has a lower screen resolution even than most hand held devices. But if this cover is going to be on an Amazon book page in thumbnail size, potential readers won’t see the gun either. Just the stupid looking hand.
Thanx. I can see now the “shadow” under the fingers is an irregularity in the cover border, making it appear to me left hand is held out fingers curled into palm over thumb.
Replicating some of these cut’n’paste cover images is impossible in the flesh. So many things wrong with that hand: if his hand were grasping the firearm’s forearm, that hand would be bigger than his head! The hand looks held out to me.
Looking at it as hat pulled over eyes and palm thrust at camera, I want to caption it “No photos please!” for the camera-shy hired gun.
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What’s with the random partial hand?
Christopher is taking a selfie.
Is that a foot? It’d be awesome if that was a foot.
That hired gun is armed with an over/under 12ga shotgun of the modern Italian trap or skeet sport style hardly an Old West choice.
The empty hand grasping air in front of the gun’s forward stock (forearm) is a weird touch too.
This cover does sorta remind me of the AMC ad for Longmire.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1136112896/tt1836037
Too bad they had to cut’n’paste an anachronistic gun and floating hand to clutter up a good idea.
Is it just me or does his hand look like it’s on backwards?
That’s why it looks to me like he’s taking a selfie in the mirror, with the phone outside the frame of the photo. I don’t see a gun at all.
It’s hard to see on a palm device. Using a laptop or desktop with a fair size screen, click on the jpeg for the cover. Between the two hands is what I identify as a Beretta S5B over/under double barrel shotgun, model introduced in 1977.
It’s a lot of work for little reward, to identify a badly rendered detail on a lousy book cover, but, as a widowed retiree with cat I have time for trivial pursuits.
Yes I’m using the cheap Kindle Fire which has a lower screen resolution even than most hand held devices. But if this cover is going to be on an Amazon book page in thumbnail size, potential readers won’t see the gun either. Just the stupid looking hand.
Yep. At thumbnail I don’t see it.
They should retitle it The Hidden Gun.
(Honestly, book covers need to work at thumbnail as well as full size.)
Or The Hired Hand?
It’s the funky brown vignette that hides just enough of the hand to make it look as though it’s clasped palm down, not palm up. Too bad.
Thanx. I can see now the “shadow” under the fingers is an irregularity in the cover border, making it appear to me left hand is held out fingers curled into palm over thumb.
Replicating some of these cut’n’paste cover images is impossible in the flesh. So many things wrong with that hand: if his hand were grasping the firearm’s forearm, that hand would be bigger than his head! The hand looks held out to me.
Looking at it as hat pulled over eyes and palm thrust at camera, I want to caption it “No photos please!” for the camera-shy hired gun.