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Post by eggman on May 14, 2006 14:03:59 GMT -5
Hmm. It looks alright. I suppose the British cover will be different however.
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Post by Dante on May 14, 2006 14:04:49 GMT -5
Wow. Nice art. Very interesting. I have a few questions about the colours and stuff, though, but for now, I have work to do. If you don't mind, I'll just upload that to my own Photobucket account so I can post it in the main B13 thread.
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Post by Antenora on May 14, 2006 14:05:05 GMT -5
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Looks fascinating. I'm guessing that's an early scene from the book, as the Baudelaires still have their concierge outfits. Not sure what the border's supposed to be, and I can't quite make sense of those feet.
And I also hope "The End" isn't really the title; they're probably keeping that under wraps, even to the point of concealing it on an actual image of the cover. It still seems odd that the cover'd be released so early, but it doesn't sound like it reveals a lot in the way of spoilers.
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Post by champ103 on May 14, 2006 14:05:27 GMT -5
Dante showed me. It looks authentic, but...something is weird about it.
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Post by eggman on May 14, 2006 14:08:18 GMT -5
I always preferred the American covers, I've bought the last 4 from Amazon.com.
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Post by s on May 14, 2006 14:08:31 GMT -5
Oh. my. goodness.
Why on earth would they have released the cover in the NY times before even Amazon or BN got it?
The spine appears to be a dull mustardy color. Strange.
And is the title really The End? I don't know what to think about that if it is. I mean, it spoils the pattern, but then again, so did TPP, though to a lesser extent. Still, I kind of like it. It gives some finality to the thing - an end to the frivolities, an end to the alliteration, an end to the series. Kind of ties it up.
Wow. I'm still kind of in shock from this.
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Post by joshspazjosh on May 14, 2006 14:09:58 GMT -5
"The End" sounds like a perfect title IMO. The way they've been publicizing it, "The End" is almost like the ultimate bad thing, akin to the end of the world or something. . .
Apparently the border wasn't sky blue. Sorry. Also I think that may be. . .tomatoes? Apples? Cherries? Didn't Snicket mention something about an island with fruit or something in an earlier book?
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Post by twistedbrain on May 14, 2006 14:11:32 GMT -5
I don't think The End is the real title. If that IS the real cover, they superimposed those two words on it. There's no way it's the real title.
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Post by Dante on May 14, 2006 14:13:17 GMT -5
Yeah, the text definitely looks dodgy. It seems to be aligned a little too high. And the colour scheme looks mostly ripped straight from TSS. I don't doubt the artwork itself, it looks too good to be fake, but I still have serious doubts about the rest. But it's certainly an important development.
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Post by champ103 on May 14, 2006 14:13:49 GMT -5
The thing around looks like fruit, like from the island we've been hearing about?
The feet belong to Olaf, it's his clothes. Is there a tattoo?
Also, in the clouds, can anyone else see Duncan and Isadora's faces? Like, in the top cluster.
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Post by twistedbrain on May 14, 2006 14:14:47 GMT -5
Well, our TSS was brown. The picture certainly could be real, but they wouldn't give that much out in one go.
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Post by joshspazjosh on May 14, 2006 14:18:47 GMT -5
I am pretty sure this is the final cover and here is why:
1) You can't see Book #10 in that ad but the colors are wayyy different in the B13 cover than the B10 cover: TSS is way darker. They didn't borrow TSS' cover scheme.
2) Yeah, the text is aligned too high but I think that has something to do with the way they rotated the covers. In the cover pics for all the other books the text looks weird and aligned too high; the "by Lemony Snicket" text, in particular, goes outside its little scroll-thing.
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Post by Antenora on May 14, 2006 14:19:05 GMT -5
There's something very odd about those feet; it looks to me as if the person in the water has rather fat legs(unlike Olaf, although the shoe looks like the kind he's been seen with) and their right knee bent up kind of oddly. I may be looking at it entirely wrong, though.
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Post by champ103 on May 14, 2006 14:22:29 GMT -5
I think the feet are just very close up; its the same trousers Olaf wears, and look carefully and you can see part of an eye, the other half would be in the water. I still see the Quagmires in the clouds.
So, the boat is behind them right? We can assume they crash, and are shipwrecked, hence why Olaf is floating in water, and why they're wet.
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Post by Dante on May 14, 2006 14:31:13 GMT -5
I've had a thought. If the AuthorTrackers continue their monthly pattern, then since there's no significant date this month that I can think of, we might reasonably expect a message mid-month, as in March - around now, in fact. So it's possible, since they're clearly fine with releasing the cover right now, that it'll be confirmed in the next AuthorTracker. Or some details may be, anyway.
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