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Post by B. on Mar 27, 2012 16:02:05 GMT -5
Saw this online just now. I'm pretty sure it's fanmade, though.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 27, 2012 16:59:55 GMT -5
Where did you find it, exactly? That cover looks authentic to me, but if you say it's fanmade, it really depends on the source.
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Post by bryan on Mar 27, 2012 18:11:28 GMT -5
It's a rather impressive fan made cover if that's what it is. It even appears that whoever made it completed some of the pictures that were covered with notes.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 27, 2012 18:30:11 GMT -5
Not to mention in Seth's style, with accompanying bottles of ink, and all the elements an actual series cover would require. The only thing throwing me is the diagonal line by Lemony's falling silhouette.
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Post by B. on Mar 28, 2012 1:34:56 GMT -5
Aye, see I thought it seemed pretty legit, too. I found it here and then asked the owner of the blog: Is the cover to who could that be at this hour fanmade or legit? And received the reply: Legit of course :) I'm not really sure what to make of this. The blog is here if anyone's interested.
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2012 1:44:05 GMT -5
Could you ask the maker of the blog where they got that cover? I agree it looks legit, more legit than I would like. I kinda hope it's fanmade, though. Bits of it look good, like the title plate for the series and the art style, but I'm less fond of the quirky font used for Snicket's name and the book's title, nor the way the separate images are arranged seemingly at random. Edit: One thing I do hope, actually, is that they change the colour tint of the cover for each book. So this book is "blue," but the next book might be broadly tinted green or red. See where I'm coming from? One of ASoUE's strengths was that even the book covers had plenty for us to speculate on and they distinguished themselves nicely from each other by things like bold spine colours. Edit Again: Made this its own thread. Also, compare this to the teaser cover; we can see that, if this is legit, the teaser cover was just the real cover, zoomed in slightly and missing the title plates. The diagonal line Sherry Ann mentions is there, too. www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_post_349_width/2012/02/lemony_snicket_cover.jpg
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Post by B. on Mar 28, 2012 4:30:12 GMT -5
Will do as soon as Iget home, tumblr is filtered at school.
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Post by Groge on Mar 28, 2012 6:31:24 GMT -5
At first glance it does look fan made due to the pictures we've already seen but I must say it does look quite real. Certainly well put together and I agree with Dante about the font used. Doesn't seem right to me. Also like the idea of each book being a different colour. I hope they will look nice beside ASOUE as well. The site is open today isn't it?
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2012 7:30:21 GMT -5
In essence I think there's too much original material there for it to be fanmade, and if you're going to create a hoax then you'd actually want to give it more publicity than that. With any luck the official site, when it opens today - and it does, Groge, yes - will provide us with the full final cover as well, so that we can a) resolve this, and b) not have been spoiled too early. Edit: You have got to be joking. I know where they got it. Go to your Drop Everything e-mails. They uploaded the new image to the wrong URL, and the cover's on it. Edit Again: So... how 'bout that message, huh. I guess that, just as you can examine a book by its cover but can't know the truth by the cover alone, you can examine a person by their crimes but can't know the truth by the crimes alone. Is this about Lemony? Is this series here to see the truth behind the fires? And since the cover is definitely real, I'm definitely hoping they'll rearrange it for future books and also tint the covers different colours (so The Second Question might be green or red or yellow where this one is blue).
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Post by B. on Mar 28, 2012 8:37:20 GMT -5
What if that was the significance of the 28th? The cover art? Or maybe this is just a careless mistake.
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Post by Sora on Mar 28, 2012 8:47:52 GMT -5
The format of this cover art reminds me of the one used by the popular Wendelin Van Draanen series Sammy Keyes: . While I'm not opposed to it entirely, it does give the impression that the books are aiming for the 8-12 demographic (which was admittedly, the original demographic of ASOUE), and it worries me that the tone/style of the book will be more juvenile than what we became accustomed to with the last few Baudelaire novels.
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2012 8:48:07 GMT -5
What if that was the significance of the 28th? The cover art? Or maybe this is just a careless mistake. But the reveal didn't have anything to do with LSATWQ.com, and probably didn't happen on the 28th (since that tumblr must've gotten the cover from the replaced image yesterday). Official announcements don't replace unique non-placeholder images at a point in time where you'd only notice the replacement by chance. Assuming the official site does open today, I wouldn't be surprised and wouldn't have been surprised to see the cover art on it, although the image we've got looks more suited to an e-mail teaser, strangely. So we might get that as well. There is one other possibility, although I doubt it. It's possible that they realised they wouldn't actually be able to get LSATWQ up on the 28th, and thought "Oh crikey, let's just replace the announcement with another teaser and hope nobody notices." But I really don't think that's what happened on account of the cat was well and truly out of the bag on the website announcement the moment the e-mail went around. Nobody knows exactly when the Drop Everything image was replaced; it could've been any time over the past few days. No, this to me has all the hallmarks of them uploading an image to the wrong URL. Edit: And I've got to say I agree with Sora's concerns. The cover art as it stands does look a little more kiddy than ASoUE's. It's got class, but with all the edges rounded off. And while I don't think any of us are expecting Handler to be catering to the now-grown-up original audience, for him to be writing for an audience younger than the original series is not something we're prepared for. Although I have thought that the Lemony of ATWQ might be aged around ten or eleven, for various reasons.
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Post by B. on Mar 28, 2012 8:52:59 GMT -5
While I'm not opposed to it entirely, it does give the impression that the books are aiming for the 8-12 demographic (which was admittedly, the original demographic of ASOUE), and it worries me that the tone/style of the book will be more juvenile than what we became accustomed to with the last few Baudelaire novels. I am certain that won't be the case. I have every confidence that Snicket's usual style will be upheld. I hope. Anyway, we'll find out what was intended on the 28th soon enough.
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Post by Sora on Mar 28, 2012 9:04:13 GMT -5
And I've got to say I agree with Sora's concerns. The cover art as it stands does look a little more kiddy than ASoUE's. It's got class, but with all the edges rounded off. And while I don't think any of us are expecting Handler to be catering to the now-grown-up original audience, for him to be writing for an audience younger than the original series is not something we're prepared for. Although I have thought that the Lemony of ATWQ might be aged around ten or eleven, for various reasons. It has also occurred to me that the font and tone of the cover also bears similarity to the Pseudonymous Bosch series, which some critics have described as the 'post-Snicket series of inquisitive youth'. I have only read one these books, but their tone is indeed less somber and mature than ASOUE, (It also is far less obtuse in genre and setting, making more of an effort to centralize itself in the 'real' world. God forbid Snicket do the same here.)
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Post by Dante on Mar 28, 2012 9:06:09 GMT -5
I have been wondering for a little while if ATWQ will bear a resemblance to the works of Pseudonymous Bosch and Trenton Lee Stewart. If Snicket remains based in the fading town for all four books, investigating cases that emerge locally in his capacity as a V.F.D. neophyte, that would be very similar to the Secret and Mysterious Benedict Society series.
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