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

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, its WonderGwen in all her awsomeness. I'm still betting on Jack's Angels with Jailbait Habiba and Emma Peel retread Johnson. Lots of bikinis and spandex.

Jack will be reduced to cameo/guest appearances.

RTD wanted a show about a policewoman hunting aliens and now he's got it.

Rhy's may bite the dust, but the baby will live. You know, got to keep the American Rightwing Nutjobs happy. So save the baby and kill da gay.

The best thing you can do is don't buy the merchandise. Everything comes down to $$. Borrow the books from the library or buy them on ebay if you must read them, but don't spend your money supporting a show you don't like. Cause your purchase will be used as proof that the fandom still loves TW - even if the books are pre-CoE.

[ella-caramella.livejournal.com]

And the worst part is that, even if Ianto is still in the books, Jack will still treat him like a "part time shag" so I have no interest in reading that stuff.

Or if by chance there's an actual relationship in the books, that will make me even angrier because their relationship couldn't be portrayed on the telly, oh no, but let's have it relegated in the books so not to offend the casual homophobic viewer.

[woani21.livejournal.com]

Actually if they show a vision of the future in which the baby turns out gay then the American right-wingers would likely have no problem with killing off the runt. Especially if that would provide further opportunity to 'de-gay' Jack.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

You got it! Maybe the baby could grow up to be a gay, Wiccan, liberal pacifist! And the Gwen (who is obviously now a card-carrying member of the NRA (National Rifle Assoc. for those of you not in the US)), can gun the baby down herself. Cause what every mommy needs is an automatic weapon!