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Prog 2086 - Bet on Red!

Started by Colin YNWA, 16 June, 2018, 03:10:53 PM

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JamesC

I had assumed she was coming through a forcefieldy doorway thing. That's what it looks like to me.

Fungus

This cover business can start some chewy discussions  :)
There's less detail than I'd like, but that's personal taste. Far worse in that regard was the green Anderson from 2074, but people seem to love that cover so hey-ho  :|

I didn't even think 'bath, of blood' either, despite 'bloodbath' featuring in the strapline. It's clear once you look.

Originality is important. Truly original covers can be glorious. But a straight-ahead protaganist being gun-pointy isn't something I need to see again. Except, this one has enough going on to justify things.

Hm. Undecided!

IndigoPrime

Stylised picture of a 'vampire' assassin walking through a coffin-shaped plasma-like doorway in white space designed to drag your eye to the main area of the composition? Works for me.

JamesC

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 18 June, 2018, 10:30:35 AM
Stylised picture of a 'vampire' assassin walking through a coffin-shaped plasma-like doorway in white space designed to drag your eye to the main area of the composition? Works for me.

Yeah it totally works as ong as she's not supposed to be bathing in blood, which I don't think she is.

Woolly

It's a cool pic of Durham Red, which incorporates elements of her character into an eye-catching design.
And it's bloody good!

Can't see the pount of reading more into it than that.

BPP

Looks more like a Brigand Doom reboot to me.
If I'd known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.

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Frank

Quote from: Woolly on 18 June, 2018, 10:58:16 AM
It's a cool pic of Durham Red, which incorporates elements of her character into an eye-catching design

Yeah, it's not a naturalistic image. It's no more represents someone in a coffin (or using a portal?!) than this classic cover illustrates the time Johnny Alpha went for a fly around Mars:




BPP

The problem is it's not clear cut what it is. Everyone saying it's not meant to be taken literally is putting clear examples of other metaphorical covers (of course Dredd isn't 50 ft tall, of course alpha isn't falling in space). Problem is nobody can clearly say what's going on with this cover - is it a 'bloodbath', is it a plasma coffin? What even is a plasma coffin? Is she lying down, standing up? What is the red stuff?

Confusion is emblematic of it not being a very good cover on a certain level.
If I'd known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.

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Frank

Quote from: BPP on 18 June, 2018, 07:34:46 PM
The problem is it's not clear cut what it is.

Never investigate Expressionism, BPP.


Geoff

What do you mean...

bull, light, horse's head, legs, arms, and up-turned face...it's all pretty clear to me...

Frank

Quote from: Geoff on 18 June, 2018, 10:06:40 PM
What do you mean...

bull, light, horse's head, legs, arms, and up-turned face...it's all pretty clear to me...

Most clear-cut case of newspaper horse in a kitchen containing a burning apartment block* I've ever seen.



BPP

Quote from: Geoff on 18 June, 2018, 10:06:40 PM
What do you mean...

bull, light, horse's head, legs, arms, and up-turned face...it's all pretty clear to me...

Said Frank Millar when he turned in 'that' cover.
If I'd known it was harmless I would have killed it myself.

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TordelBack

Quote from: BPP on 19 June, 2018, 11:21:46 AM
Said Frank Millar when he turned in 'that' cover.

It mightn't have been quite on the scale of Guernica, but 'that' cover certainly elicits a similar response of raw horror...

IndigoPrime


Woolly

I know I'm an army of one here, but... I've grown to adore that Miller Dredd. So very very wrong, but I love it!