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

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

These books are set pre-CoE, but released afterwards for some reason (hoping the 'new' fans might purchase, maybe?)

I think any book released between now and s4 will have to be pre-CoE to be profitable in writing and - as you said - the writers have nothing tow work with (other than the Gwen Cooper pregnancy diaries. WOOP ¬_¬)

[lawsontl.livejournal.com]

They have pretty consistently released books that deal with subject matter taking place BEFORE episodes that have already aired. So we got Owen and Tosh stories after they'd already been killed off, as well.

Bear in mind, John and his sister Carole are writing a Torchwood novel. I've e-mailed her to ask what it's about, since they were completely mum on the subject at the last con (they were even iffy if they should admit to writing it at the time, since it was pre-CoE). Hopefully that means it's something to do with Jack's travels, but that could just be me being hopeful. I'm sure she got inundated like everyone else did and is still catching up.