Hello all,
to attack my rapidly worsening withdrawal syndrome before the Typhoon Pact series I recently purchased the entire New Frontier line. Currently I'm reading "Dark Allies".
This was probably already discussed at the time, but one thing I find odd is that on the book covers Mackenzie Calhoun and Zak Kebron don't look at all like described in the text.
Calhoun looks different on every book. Sometimes he looks like Ken (Barbie's husband) or some other beau, sometimes like a funny little guy ("Once Burned"). The scar does not look so bad and he certainly has nothing whatsoever "savage" about him - not even a bad shave.
Zak does not look like a "walking landmass", more of normal build and one can easily imagine how he would nod. In the books there is constant referral to the fact that he does not have a neck and that his whole upper body moves when he attempts to nod.
Apart from this I really like the series. Peter David does seems to have a thing for planetwide desasters (Planet-Eating Borg, The Great Bird of the Galaxy, The Black Mass, The Doomsday Machine etc.) which for me sometimes goes a little bit over the top but on the whole I enjoy the stories, the twists and turns and the humor.
I could do without the brutality though.
to attack my rapidly worsening withdrawal syndrome before the Typhoon Pact series I recently purchased the entire New Frontier line. Currently I'm reading "Dark Allies".
This was probably already discussed at the time, but one thing I find odd is that on the book covers Mackenzie Calhoun and Zak Kebron don't look at all like described in the text.
Calhoun looks different on every book. Sometimes he looks like Ken (Barbie's husband) or some other beau, sometimes like a funny little guy ("Once Burned"). The scar does not look so bad and he certainly has nothing whatsoever "savage" about him - not even a bad shave.
Zak does not look like a "walking landmass", more of normal build and one can easily imagine how he would nod. In the books there is constant referral to the fact that he does not have a neck and that his whole upper body moves when he attempts to nod.
Apart from this I really like the series. Peter David does seems to have a thing for planetwide desasters (Planet-Eating Borg, The Great Bird of the Galaxy, The Black Mass, The Doomsday Machine etc.) which for me sometimes goes a little bit over the top but on the whole I enjoy the stories, the twists and turns and the humor.
I could do without the brutality though.
