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Best and worst cover art
« on: July 21, 2008, 05:50:22 PM »
What are your favorite and least favorite covers?

My favorite:



I love the b&w.  The inside art is especially awesome, although I wish Marco had got his gorilla morph like he was supposed to...

My least favorite:



The hawk-rabbit morph always looked kinda dumb to me.  Plus I don't like the first Tobias model very much xD

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 06:17:59 PM »
I've liked most Rachel cover book morphs except for The Return.

I did not like that really freaky cover for The Andalite's Gift
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008, 06:23:33 PM »
hmm...my favourite cover art would be:
mm#2. I just thought it looked cool what with the animorphs eyes and the cool background.

Jake's version. I like all 6 of the different versions equally. the seventh, I don't like as much.

my least favourite:
MM#3. I didn't really like how the animorphs looked in that. and the background doesn't seem to make sense to me.

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008, 06:28:47 PM »
My favorite was MM#4.

My least favorite The Visitor. It looked so fake compared to all the others.

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2008, 04:44:35 PM »
i don't have a scanner, nor any idea how to use insert a picture, but my favorite was probably #19, where Cassie morphs to butterfuly, and my least favorite was probably #32, where Rachel morphs to starfish.

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2008, 06:09:31 PM »
you don't need a scanner. all the cover images are at www.scholastic.com/animorphs

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2008, 07:17:41 PM »
I liked The Predator, simply because Marco is winking, and I feel it epitomizes him. Also loved The Underground.
Didn't like The Alien cover because I always assumed Ax's tail was much longer.
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2008, 12:08:35 AM »
i don't have a scanner, nor any idea how to use insert a picture, but my favorite was probably #19, where Cassie morphs to butterfuly, and my least favorite was probably #32, where Rachel morphs to starfish.

#19 was a great one, especially the blue and gold color scheme. <3

I really like the sky backgrounds for all the covers.  They're all so pretty.

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2008, 12:21:49 AM »
Didn't like The Alien cover because I always assumed Ax's tail was much longer.

Seriously, all of Ax's depictions would make it so he couldn't do more than scratch anyone in front of him!
Behind and to the sides, sure, he's a threat, but in front, how the hell would he get it in front?!
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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2008, 12:27:40 AM »
You're like one of those annoying film critics that points out a flaw in your favorite film now you can't enjoy it as much because you can't stop thinking about it
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2008, 12:32:42 AM »
Really?
You're annoyed that someone complained about the cover art?
That the tail on the cover art is a huge thing? Not the way Tobias changes his human appearance like 4 times, or that mild little definance to morphing outfits that all the covers had?
My comment about the tails on the cover will forever haunt you?
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2008, 12:47:23 AM »
I LOVED the cover of #19. Easily one of the most beautiful.

I also liked: 4, 15, 17, 20, 26, MM#4, The Andalite Chronicles, The Hork-Bajir Chronicles, and Visser.

Least favorite covers: 1, 7, 8, 18, 22, 28, 35, 48, The Ellimist Chronicles.
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2008, 06:42:06 AM »
I love the cover of book 54. Its awesome.

I didn't like the covers of books 1, 2 and 5.

The first two, because they were just so fake looking.. and number 5 because of Marco's goofy and creepy smile... lol
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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2008, 01:32:38 AM »
Any of the covers with aliens on them (8, 29, 34, 43) are awesome since I could never figure out what they looked like from the descriptions.

I hated the covers that had morphs that never occured in the book (3, 19, 41, 48, 54)  I suppose I can forgive 3 since there's not much else anybody could have done, as well as 54 since it looks cool and it was a special cover for the last book.

Overall, I'd say the best cover was 45 since it was the beginning of the end, it had the new (and improved) Marco model, and the meaning behind the ant morph was unsurpassed by any other.

The least favorite has to be 41.  It was annoying to look at basically five humans on a cover when there should be two creatures of any kind and three 'in between' stages.  It didn't even look like an Animorphs cover.  Horrible.

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Re: Best and worst cover art
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2008, 09:16:17 PM »
 I absolutely adored all the Animorph covers. I loved the color schemes...especiall y for the Logo on the top of the books because they were never alike.
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