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

[isarae.livejournal.com]

Okay. I wasn't going to say anything...until I saw the original covers..(which by the way, aren't linked in the post. The link is wrong :) )

Now I'm wondering why the changes occured.
1. Gwen-centric, not Jack-centric. On the first two. Also on the last where she has higher hierarchy in comparison to the original. (but this also stands if you disregard the originals) She's also confident and smug where Jack and Ianto look hesitant.

2. Change from Ianto to Jack cover. Just...WTF?!

Oh, and Icon love!

(My other WTF moment came when I was looking at the 'Consequences' cover. It seriously looks like separate images of the actors put together. It could be just me, but..the colours and shadows don't seem quite right. Most noticeably on Ianto. Like someone forgot to adjust the levels on him. *shrug*)

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

I've fixed the original covers link now.

That is a photo composite from the CoE photoshoot - the same image with equally bad lighting and colour balance can be found as a wallpaper on the CoE site.

Thanks for the icon love ^_^

[isarae.livejournal.com]

Hmm..my bad. It still looks odd, but...oh well. Life looks odd sometimes.

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

No no no I was agreeing with you, silly!

They were cut and pasted together. The only pictures from the CoE shoot they actually posed for together were the ones with the chair and where they were holding or hugging each other. The rest are, like you presumed, composites (that I think even I could have done a better job of shadowing and lighting right - they even had the same lighting conditions for each photo, ffs!!!! ... *ahem* anyway ...).

The pics are a little odd, aren't they?

[isarae.livejournal.com]

Heh, I was going with 'my bad' because I'd assumed that the person who did the cover composited them, not that they were from the original promos. And I'd assume(d) that with an original shoot, it would have been better done..

I think it's only okay at a glance..until you stop and look.

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

And as fangirls and boysies ... we do like to look ;)


<<<< LOOOOOOK!

[saxgoddess25.livejournal.com]

Oh that's just wrong! <3

[a-silver-story.livejournal.com]

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

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

I like your icon. :)

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

But....not even one? *pouts* They could've at least given us a team cover. That would've been cool.