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Silver ([personal profile] a_silver_story) wrote2009-08-11 01:51 pm

The New Torchwood Book Covers ...

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 [livejournal.com profile] lawsontl



[identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com 2009-08-11 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree, Ianto should have had his own cover... but let's be grateful, at least he's still in these books...

I'll read but will be dreading the first post S3 books without him

[identity profile] x-starfuckers.livejournal.com 2009-08-11 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think there's gonna be post s3 books? I can't see how since the writers would have nothing to work with :/

[identity profile] a-silver-story.livejournal.com 2009-08-11 02:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I think any book released between now and S4 will have</i. to be Pre-CoE - they won't be profitable otherwise because no one will buy them - not to mention the fact you mentioned: there's nothing left to work with.

[identity profile] hab318princess.livejournal.com 2009-08-11 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
We can hope, I love Torchwood a lot and hope there will be more... as I said, slightly worried how they go from here but if you look at Doctor Who, they are now on Dr. 11 and I survived the move from 9 to 10 (never having really watched DW before), so yeah, I'm not writing Torchwood off yet