Woot! I'm not the only one. -high five's Graphic Blue-
OTOH, I seem to be the only one who could care less about the covers. Nothing they could ever do would come close to the image in my head I get from reading these so the cover art doesn't matter as far as reliability goes. It DOES need to at least try to avoid the preconceptions of childishness that some people- especially me- had when first seeing the original covers. If, perhaps, they used higher quality art versions of the inside cover art for the outside of the new versions, it would partly counteract that, to some degree. But that's just my opinion. -shrugs- People encountering Animorphs for the first time are likely to judge it as more childish than it truly is at first. It's not til around the teens or twenties of the books that the series really starts to build up into the depth, complexity, and ethical -for lack of a better word- ''adultness'' that really sets it apart from typical kid-lit fare. It's going to take more than just good covers to really get new fans to see beneath the just-another-kids-series veneer. We classic fans are going to have to spread the word and make a point that these books are, like the kids themselves in morphs, more than meets the eye. And it's what we classic fans see clearly in the series as a whole, and what newbies will see dimly in the first few books, that really makes Animorphs a treasure.
I think that's enough fan-gush for one post. :p
