The black and white image on the cover is kinda cool so it just begs the question:
What the Hell kind of person thought it would look better with cartoon people slapped on it?!
The lack of common sense is appalling.
The pencil-type drawing is OK. It’s not brilliant, but it might be serviceable with a sympathetic layout and a font that complemented it. The hideous cartoons of the dog-collar character with what appears to be a watermark instead of a face and the saggy-bosomed pouting woman with chewed-off arms are totally inappropriate combined with it.
I’m going to allow myself several seconds to think about it.
Jen
10 years ago
@ Kris: Well, I thought about it a few seconds and frightening as it is, my synopsis is that the author put on a blindfold, stuck his hand in a big back of stock pictures and picked this fairly decent pencil drawing. If whoever drew that drawing saw it visually raped like it is by this author’s “logos” I’m sure he or she would be running to the bathroom to vomit.
Or maybe just cry.
hotclaws
10 years ago
Dickens meets Loony Tunes- intriguing.
Axolotl
10 years ago
Looking on Amazon, most of the books in this series seem to have fairly simple black-and-white, inoffensive covers that are reasonably effective for the genre (seems to be cosy yesteryear detective stories). I wonder what happened to this one?
![cover[1]](https://lousybookcovers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cover1126.jpg)
The black and white image on the cover is kinda cool so it just begs the question:
What the Hell kind of person thought it would look better with cartoon people slapped on it?!
The lack of common sense is appalling.
The pencil-type drawing is OK. It’s not brilliant, but it might be serviceable with a sympathetic layout and a font that complemented it. The hideous cartoons of the dog-collar character with what appears to be a watermark instead of a face and the saggy-bosomed pouting woman with chewed-off arms are totally inappropriate combined with it.
It appears that the cartoon & watermarked (a.k.a. ***STOLEN***) “reverend” is the logo for the series. Let’s think about that a moment, shall we?
Oh. A *faceless logo for a series. Cool…
*except for the watermark.
I’m going to allow myself several seconds to think about it.
@ Kris: Well, I thought about it a few seconds and frightening as it is, my synopsis is that the author put on a blindfold, stuck his hand in a big back of stock pictures and picked this fairly decent pencil drawing. If whoever drew that drawing saw it visually raped like it is by this author’s “logos” I’m sure he or she would be running to the bathroom to vomit.
Or maybe just cry.
Dickens meets Loony Tunes- intriguing.
Looking on Amazon, most of the books in this series seem to have fairly simple black-and-white, inoffensive covers that are reasonably effective for the genre (seems to be cosy yesteryear detective stories). I wonder what happened to this one?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=reverend%20paltoquet&sprefix=reverend+pa%2Cdigital-text&rh=i%3Adigital-text%2Ck%3Areverend%20paltoquet
Ed Gorey meets random clip art chick, guest starring The Question. (Steve Ditko “superhero” with no face.) The end result is quite disturbing.