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more about #covers Yellowphant: Quite simply, this is why I love io9. more » MonkeyT: #11 - NASA notebooks, 10/12/2021: "Gee. That's new." more » EdificeComplex: Not a book cover, but Andross form Star Fox is a classic of the giant head set. more » lazyeight: Oddly, and perhaps due to the giant heads, I replied to a post. Both the orig comment & mine have disappeared. more » Zidel333: To be honest, even giants heads is a diplomatic plausability. Because he's Worf, bloody son of Mogh. [www.youtube.com] more » Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies: Oh woe is me! Cursed obersver, those are not mere measles! That is the sign of "The Marked." I have encountered it before...once. I lost many a good f... more » TheFaithfulStone: That next to last one, with the head / mirror is actually kinda creepy. more » Bill-Lee: Why did the Mastermind of Mars need glasses? What kind of Mastermind is that? more » Dr Emilio Lizardo: Why are so many of these Italian? more » disatess: they are pretty cool . more » icy_one: With the exception of the Green Lantern cover and possible Millie, the rest of these are pretty terrible. Going to the website you can see some that a... more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: I love the re-do of the TMNT II adaptation in Eastman and Laird's original art style. That's brilliant. And the G.I. Joe cover... well, that's just ... more » Dirk Anger: I can't see the gallery, it just reloads more » MosesMonster: Woo! Covered mention!! more » zerofritz: some of these are clearly using a different definition of "classic" than i am used to. more » Allen_Richards: That NEXUS one seemed to be the only interesting one up there until I hit that G.I. JOE. That one gave me a nice chuckle. more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Why does Cap'n America look like a Neanderthal intruding on someone's "personal time"? more » Smeagol92055: Okay, that GI Joe one takes the cake. MARVEL GODDAMN COMICS more » Klebert L. Hall: I know they're hyper-trendy, but I fail to believe the usefulness of tag-clouds. -Kle. more » cletar: I once worked on a production called "The Dragon That Saved Christmas from the Witch That Tried To Steal It." It had dragons, witches, and a fat guy.... more » -
#giantheads
Scariest Giant Heads From Science Fiction Book Covers
Nothing is more terrifying, more mentally scarring, than the giant-head book cover. They loom off the cardstock, their huge eyes bugging out. Nothing inside the pages could be this horrifying. Here are our favorite massive-headed book covers of all time. More » -
#remixedcovers
Fan Artists Reimagine Classic Comics Covers
Robert Goodin's blog Covered invites artists to remix and reinterpret their favorite comic book covers, resulting in fun and funky covers of classic superhero art. More » -
#bookcovers
Vampire Laser Love On Mars: The Can't-Fail Ingredients To Create The Best Worst SF Book
This tag cloud, depicting all the words that go into the worst science-fiction book titles, is a thing of absolute beauty. Orbit Books created it out of the 350 submissions for its "worst cover ever" drive. And the finalists are... More » -
#bookcovers
Can You Come Up With A Science Fiction Book Cover Worse Than These?
Orbit Books is trying to create the worst science fiction book cover of all time — but they're up against stiff competition. Details, and a gallery of some of our fave bad covers, are below. More » -
#conceptart
Covers That Rock: The Truth Revealed!
Yesterday, we took a journey into the unknown, with fantastic images that could have been science-fiction book covers or rock album covers. Today, the unbelievable truth is revealed! More » -
#bookcoverart
Classic 1960s Pulp Cover Art Is A Collection Of Self-Portraits
This cover art for Andre Norton's Three Against The Witch World crackles with eldritch insanity - and that's before you realize that artist Harry Borgman used himself and his wife as the models. More » -
#sciencefictionart
In Soviet Russia, Space Opera Really Was Operatic
Look at the Russian cover for Robert Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land: It's like one of Caravaggio's Bible scenes: lurid, fiery, over-the-top and awesome. It should surprise nobody that Heinlein and Philip K. Dick were fantastically popular in the U.S.S.R., with their sharp social commentary and crazy plot devices. The Russian Science Fiction page (in English, luckily) has a bunch of Heinlein and Dick covers, and we have a gallery of our favorites below. More » -
