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German covers of "Zero Sum Game" and "Seize the Fire"

:vulcan: While I agree that most of CC's covers are way overrated (I guess that's what you're aiming at), I don't know where this is coming from.

I only mentioned the tetraptych (thanks Christopher, I was to lazy to look that up) as extra information, not as some kind of hype. I'm fully aware that this is a relative common cover design feature for series in Star Trek (Mission Gamma, Terok Nor, Crucible etc.).
 
Steve Mollmann said:
Oh man, look at those beautifully coordinated spines. Someone at CrossCult should get a medal. The same spine design on two sequential books in the same series! Unheard of!
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Defcon said:
:vulcan: While I agree that most of CC's covers are way overrated (I guess that's what you're aiming at), I don't know where this is coming from.

I only mentioned the tetraptych (thanks Christopher, I was to lazy to look that up) as extra information, not as some kind of hype. I'm fully aware that this is a relative common cover design feature for series in Star Trek (Mission Gamma, Terok Nor, Crucible etc.).
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Are you responding to me, Jens? Everything I said was completely in earnest!* I was referencing a picture earlier in the album (I suppose this is unclear) where you can see that all their books use the same spine design. Amazing!

* Well, as earnest as I get, anyway.
 
Geez, seems my sarcasm detector is totally off, seeing sarcasm when there is none. Sorry. :alienblush:

(I was kind of thrown off by you mentioning spines, but never made the connection you were speaking about other pics in their album. They had people post there shelfs some month ago.)
 
That is cool, the consistent spines. That whole set would look pretty badass on a shelf.
 
Christopher said:
Not bad overall... but why does Ezri look so scared and vulnerable, like an ingenue in a slasher film? Not the kind of expression I associate with a starship captain.
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Especially considering, the book doesn't go into any "vulnerabilities" or inner conflicts Ezri may or may not be going through--at all. (Which, of course, is particularly odd, considering Julian Bashir being on this mission. Really--she doesn't go through any emotional arc, following their "dinner" incident? But I digress....)

Also...once again, Sarina is noticably absent from the cover, even though she is just as much a central character as Bashir and Ezri is--and we know what she looks like. Or is there an "upper limit" to amount of screen characters we can have on a cover I don't know about...?

Last thought: Julian's beard doesn't look much like a beard. On the US cover, he's rockin' the Chuck Norris look, to my delight! (:techman:) Here, well...
 
The Seize the Fire cover is fantastic. The Zero Sum Game cover is good, but kind of blah.

As for Sarina being on the cover, I was under the impression that they probably don't have likeness rights to use the actress's image... what... 13 years after last appearing as the character, as she wasn't a series mainstay?
 
BritishSeaPower said:
I was under the impression that they probably don't have likeness rights to use the actress's image... what... 13 years after last appearing as the character, as she wasn't a series mainstay?
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All depends on clauses in her original episode contracts. Depending on the negotiating skills of her agent, and the actress's profile at the time, she could have waived likeness rights, not been offered them, or need further negotiation. Sometimes the clause will allow photos in trading cards, but not book covers or action figures.

If the negotiation process is going to be too extensive/lengthy/expensive, the editor will just go with another cover design.
 
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Defcon said:
They've posted a draft for the Rough BEasts of Empire translation:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...set=a.296796548230.147081.270679318230&type=1
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Hmm. It's nice to see the New York and the James T. Kirk in the Battle of Alonis against the Borg, but I can't help but feel that some customers will be disappointed to pick it up and realize that most of Rough Beasts covers the year following the Borg Invasion...
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I'm disappointed that Sisko's not on the cover! I mean come on, half the book is about him.
 
Defcon said:
They've posted a draft for the Rough BEasts of Empire translation:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...set=a.296796548230.147081.270679318230&type=1
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I agree that it's weird that Sisko's not on the cover. During the whole previous Sarina-on-the-cover-of-ZSG discussion, I was just thinking, "Of course they wouldn't put Sarina on the cover, your average punter has no idea who the hell she is." And yet now with RBoE, they put an equally obscure character - Donatra - on the cover while neglecting the obvious draw, Sisko himself. This picture makes it look like it's a "Romulans-versus-the-Borg" story, which it so very much is not.

And for the ships, yes, the Sabre is backwards. But if each book has a ship featured on the cover - Aventine, Titan, Enterprise-E - shouldn't RBoE's cover feature the Robinson? It's Sisko's major command in the book, and it's a Galaxy-class so quick-glance-viewers could easily mistake it for the Enterprise-D, which I think would be a good thing.

Defcon said:
Sorry for the double post, but CC has posted the draft for the Paths of Disharmony cover:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...set=a.296796548230.147081.270679318230&type=1
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Better, but the Borg cubes are left over from the RBoE cover (thanks to the tetraptych-liness) which again suggests the Borg are in this book, which they are not beyond passing mention of the effect they had on Andor. Some Tholian Webslingers would have been more appropriate. Still, always nice to see Shar again (even though, to the non-initiated, he's as much a who-the-hell as Sarina and Donatra).

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CaptainDonovin said:
I really like these, wish our covers were better. The Brinkmanship cover is very unimpressive.
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One thing I really like about our Brinkmanship cover is that Picard and Ezri look noticably older. I was not a fan of the Sisko on the RBoE cover, who looked far too young (as did Spock, whose appearence should be more in line with STXI 5 years hence, than "Unification" 14 years prior), nor the unintentionally hilarious photoshop of Riker on the cover of Synthesis.

I'm really hoping to see a shot of Picard from "Future Imperfect" on a cover one day. He rocked that beard and longer hair.
 
I like the four linked covers poster I saw. Why can't we get something like that here? The last similar cover I saw was the Captain's Table books...
 
CaptainDonovin said:
I really like these, wish our covers were better. The Brinkmanship cover is very unimpressive.
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Eh. I mean, I respect the creativity and the desire for dynamic imagery, but, by the same token, it's sometimes painfully obvious when the Cult Cross cover artists have photoshopped in a publicity still. For instance, the Sabre-class starship on their cover for Rough Beasts is completely out of scale and has a different resolution than the Akira- and Nebula-class ships.
 
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