The New Torchwood Book Covers ...

[a_silver_story]

Okay, so The Undertaker's Gift, Consequences and Risk Assessment are all due for release in the UK on the 1st of October, and I just went over to play.com to see if they'd released the cover images yet. Lo and behold! - what a kick in the teeth!














Ianto doesn't even get his own cover this time around! Why does this annoy me so much? - aside from the fact these books are supposedly Ianto's final outing in the Whoniverse and he doesn't even get his own cover? Talk about kicking a fictional construct when he's down!


_{... and they cropped out his gun ...} THE GUN THAT HE NEVER FREAKIN' HAD!! ... come to think of it ... were any of you watching CoE thinking "Maybe he steals the gun from Johnson's men ... oh they're at an army base. Does he get his machine gun now? Okay the hand gun didn't burst the tank ... maybe he grabs his machine gun to do it ... WTF? He's dying and he didn't even get the big arse gun they've spent the past nine months drumming into us via publicity shots and photographs he's going to lay his hands on?" - anyone else, or just me?

*goes away to reminisce about Bay of the Dead and The Twilight Streets covers ... with a couple of passages from Pack Animals and Almost Perfect for good measure ...*


EDIT: Also ... in the bottom images of two of the books, Gwen is front and centre like she's the main character (something I've noticed on a couple of CoE promos). I thought Torchwood was Jack's series? Hmmmm


EDIT 2: Rile ye'selves! The original covers released in April had a Ianto cover!



Thanks goes to lawsontl

Comments

[deangirl1.livejournal.com]

No WAY will I buy these books new. Notice that in the cover with the three of them it looks as if Gwen and Jack are protecting Ianto from "whatever" and he is cringing and scared behind them?????????????? AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGHHHHHH.

[angelkitty101.livejournal.com]

Voice Porn! Love it!

I have it, but I was doing the radio plays first. I going to have to do it in snippets on the way home from work and I really don't want to do :(, GDL needs more of my time than that! But it's better than nothing, I'll just have to keep the besotted look off my face on the train, don't want ppl thinking I'm odd!

[saxgoddess25.livejournal.com]

OMG, that scene at the range. EVERY time I watch that I cringe and facepalm...and laugh my ass off. It's obvious nobody on the production crew has a bloody idea how to shoot a gun.

[saxgoddess25.livejournal.com]

Oh that's just wrong! <3

Re: Hmm...

[saxgoddess25.livejournal.com]

I've pledged not to support the TW machine until they fix what they broke in CoE but I have to say I agree with you mm. None of them sound particularly great. Risk Assessment probably sounds the most interesting of the lot, for me at least.

[saxgoddess25.livejournal.com]

Meh. Ianto was a blank? Could I hate RTD more? *thinking about that one* Okay, yes I could, but he really is becoming the unspeakable one. If a character is a blank, WRITE BETTER! Yeesh. Some people...

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

So wrong .... yet ... so so so right ...

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

That comment pissed me off too.

"Ianto was a blank"

One word, RTD, one word:


CYBERWOMAN

[charlotte3006.livejournal.com]

must not comment when drunk must not comment when drunkj.

Are there two covers for each book or am i more dfrunk than i realisere?

Ianto is pretty.

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

Not sure how hopeful to be since we once got some bloody cockblocking beans from him, but James Moran had mentioned "Consequences" in his blog:

Oh, and it may have looked like I was randomly pimping the Consequences book for no reason - it was meant as a partial response to the general "when can we have stuff where Jack and Ianto care about each other". There is Stuff in my story, which is why I mentioned it...

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

Two covers would be nice...that way I can pick the one I want.

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

I think the baby would survive...it would be Rhys who might have to worry. We get Gwen and Jack and the baby as one big happy family. Eventually by series 6 since Gwen CAN'T die either and is still alive, everyone will have forgotten that Rhys was the father because everyone knows only one daddy and that's Jack.

[delennbr.livejournal.com]

More reasons to be mad! Ianto at least deserved a cover! And is so worse that they did one and changed!

[silverearthelf.livejournal.com]

Ok, this just pisses me off. I think it looks great with the three of them on the cover for Consequences, and it's better than the old one, BUT I LIKE THE UNDERTAKER'S GIFT WITH IANTO ON THE COVER!
ALSO! since when does Gwen get to be in the middle? It's always been Jack, so why is she there now?
GRRR!
Thanks for the update!

[ceindreadh.livejournal.com]

I suppose from a staging point of view, having the one female between the two guys makes a sort of sense. But changing the covers like that, especially when the first undertaker one is much nicer than the second, that makes no sort of sense at all.

[charlotte3006.livejournal.com]

Urghhh I apologise for that comment. I wasn't.....sober.
Reading the post again I realise now that the bottom photos were the original covers, not alternate covers *headdesk*
Damn, I wish they were the proper ones :( Ianto totally deserves his own cover!! He made the Twilight Streets look so good!

[woani21.livejournal.com]

And just when I thought that my idea couldn't any worse. I think I need to go drink some drain cleaner to get that vision out of my head.

[caffeine2.livejournal.com]

WANKERS!!!!!!!!!
I also find it very interesting that the "Risk Assessment" cover has been changed to give Gwen a pose with a gun - the plot (or lack thereof) thickens!
btw - LOVE the icon

[coffee-n-retcon.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe Ianto 'was' a blank... but then some wanker went and cast the amazing GDL in the role.
It was GDL who then transformed that 'blank' into the character that we have all come to absolutely love. Just because he can portray more emotion with a single eyebrow than a certain someone can with her entire being (and all those lines of dialoge...)

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

lol And here we all thought Jack was the only one who could not die.

I decided to reread the books and just realized that in Twilight Streets (p. 223) - Rhys says to Gwen that they (Jack, Ianto, Tosh & Owen) are all gone and that they (Rhys & Gwen) will have to rebuild TW to make the world safe for their baby.

Doesn't the hub also get blown up in Twilight Streets? Now doesn't all that sound alot like some events from COE and how the future TW will be?

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

Couldn't they give us a Jack/Ianto cover?!

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

I like your icon. :)

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

The hub doesn't get blown up, Tosh and Owen shut it down and move the Rift Manipulator, that, in turn, Ianto and Jack blow up.

But I deffo see your point. Was nothing in CoE original?

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

They could have, but that would have been mollycoddling the fans by giving them what they want, and in RTD'verse that simply cannot happen ;)

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

She's also in the middle on the first set of books.