+Child of Hodor Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 I've never loved the UK covers of the Stormlight books, but I couldn't articulate what my problem with them is. Now I think I know. As a piece of art they are good, but I don't feel the style is a good choice for the Stormlight Archive. The series is named after a magical glowing light that people, weapons, armor and gems of all colors glow with. Yet they chose to do these covers in mostly black and white with red as the only actual color. This perfect for Mistborn, Era 1 even has a red sun. Is this what happened? They used the mostly black and white cover for Mistborn and it was a hit so they had the same artist do the same style for all his books to associate them with that other successful book of his in people's minds? The only way they could mismatch a series and a cover art style worse is if they used it for Warbreaker, haha! OH NO! They even did it to the book about how awesome colors are! I concede they appear to have compromised their colorless artistic vision by including maybe four (4) colors in little dabs. Me to the UK covers: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bzhydack Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 You dont wanna see Polish first edition covers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezzik Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 It is a British thing to have one cover artist for all of an author's books, regardless of series. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Child of Hodor Posted October 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Bzhydack said: You dont wanna see Polish first edition covers Yeah, I know. Let's be super judgey about them all while I'm here: That UK cover actually feels appropriate. The Polish one is super generic for sure. With the Japan cover every piece of it look at least OK on their own, but looks like a meme factory put it together The characters are plopped out there unmoored in the middle of it and they look like slightly melted action figures (I do like the gold armor upon closer inspection). My goodness what glorious metal nun's habit that guy is wearing! Wow! The way he's tilting his head and causally leaning his sword on his shoulder ... imagine feeling that cocky while wearing that metal hat. Nothing new to say here on the OB ones. I really dig the Germany part 2. A little "Son of the Mists" volume 3 as a palate cleanser: Edited October 23, 2020 by Child of Hodor 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hen Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 My favorites have to be all of the Germany and all of the French covers. I like the UK cover for WoK, but I think it would fit better as the Oathbringer cover. But anyways, I'd rather they stick with the UK covers theme then break SA off from the rest of the Cosmere. I think blue would've been a better choice then red though. That said, I don't buy UK covers so I don't know if my opinion matters much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShardplateJoe III Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 My favorites: Way of Kings: For me, it is a tie between France's part 1 cover and the US cover. Words of Radiance: Definitely Bulgaria's cover-- that looks SO COOL Oathbringer: None of these really stand out to me as being my favorite so I'll default to the US cover. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Awakened Salad Posted October 23, 2020 Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 I’m honestly not a big fan of having people on the covers of books in general (unless it’s more of a stylised illustration), so I’ve never been overly fond of any of Brandon’s covers. The art for all of them is fantastic but it’s not my sort of thing. If I had to pick from the Stormlight covers, I’d say the French and German ones are my favourites. Though while we’re talking about UK covers may I bring to attention the fact that the UK cover of HoA is just the cover of WoA but zoomed in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Child of Hodor Posted October 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, The Awakened Salad said: Though while we’re talking about UK covers may I bring to attention the fact that the UK cover of HoA is just the cover of WoA but zoomed in. LOL! Amazing. I’d respect it if they committed to the bit and all Era 1 were just a gradual zoom in on the same drawing of Vin. Era 2 is one drawing of Wayne with 4 different zoom ratios. Edited October 23, 2020 by Child of Hodor 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bzhydack Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 Old Polich Covers were very not-fitting, but now, New covers are much better. BTW, Warbreaker has the same colors as Stormlight Archive. Spoiler Warbreaker: Spoiler Way of Kings: Spoiler Words of Radiance: Spoiler Oathbringer part one: Spoiler Oathbringer part two: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanarach Posted October 24, 2020 Report Share Posted October 24, 2020 All covers look bad next to a Michael Whelan cover. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realmatic Shadow Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 On 24/10/2020 at 4:07 PM, Chanarach said: All covers look bad next to a Michael Whelan cover. You say that, but the French WoK covers are amazing (by far my favorite of all the covers there) and the new Polish covers are ones that I am very tempted to re-buy the whole series so far just to get. If I could get those covers on English printed versions... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chanarach Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 16 minutes ago, Realmatic Shadow said: You say that, but the French WoK covers are amazing (by far my favorite of all the covers there) and the new Polish covers are ones that I am very tempted to re-buy the whole series so far just to get. If I could get those covers on English printed versions... That's cool, mate. I've been a Whelan fan for uh I guess bit over 25 years. The To Green Angel Tower cover still takes my breath away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frustration Posted October 26, 2020 Report Share Posted October 26, 2020 You know I really like the Bulgarian covers, the French WoR isn't bad either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardsplinter Posted October 27, 2020 Report Share Posted October 27, 2020 I'm actually a bit surprised of how much I like the french covers!!! The WoK with Kal and Shallan actually gave me huge chills. Bulgarian WoR is pretty amazing too. The way they represented such an iconic fight is quite good( but I only like it in retrospective, I prefer my covers less spoilery) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truthless of Shinovar Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/24/2020 at 3:53 AM, Bzhydack said: Old Polich Covers were very not-fitting, but now, New covers are much better. BTW, Warbreaker has the same colors as Stormlight Archive. Reveal hidden contents Warbreaker: Reveal hidden contents Way of Kings: Reveal hidden contents Words of Radiance: Reveal hidden contents Oathbringer part one: Reveal hidden contents Oathbringer part two: Holy cow, I actually like the Polish covers a lot! Probably not more than the Michael Whelans, but they still look super accurate. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsdaughter613 Posted October 30, 2020 Report Share Posted October 30, 2020 23 hours ago, Truthless of Shinovar said: Holy cow, I actually like the Polish covers a lot! Probably not more than the Michael Whelans, but they still look super accurate. Except for the eye shape they’re great. Whelan does that too. And both seem to have issues with skin tones... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green Posted January 2, 2021 Report Share Posted January 2, 2021 the French covers tho omg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorless Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 The French and English covers I like. The German covers are a disaster, when in Oathbringer was there a... what looks like a metal spaceship, in the middle of a sandy desert? Because apparently I missed that sequence! The rest of the German covers also look rather fantasy generic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmcclure7 Posted January 4, 2021 Report Share Posted January 4, 2021 On 10/23/2020 at 3:01 PM, Child of Hodor said: Yeah, I know. Let's be super judgey about them all while I'm here: That UK cover actually feels appropriate. The Polish one is super generic for sure. With the Japan cover every piece of it look at least OK on their own, but looks like a meme factory put it together The characters are plopped out there unmoored in the middle of it and they look like slightly melted action figures (I do like the gold armor upon closer inspection). My goodness what glorious metal nun's habit that guy is wearing! Wow! The way he's tilting his head and causally leaning his sword on his shoulder ... imagine feeling that cocky while wearing that metal hat. Nothing new to say here on the OB ones. I really dig the Germany part 2. A little "Son of the Mists" volume 3 as a palate cleanser: To France and the Bulgaria covers are the best 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaRegia Posted January 27, 2021 Report Share Posted January 27, 2021 Have to agree - the UK covers are not my top-20 of the ones shown. I also agree the French covers for tWoK absolutely knocked it out of the park! (That's good, for those unfamiliar with baseball idiom) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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