CoversGoneSavage!

by Candy Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 11:46 AM

This session of Covers Gone Wild is a sort of drive-by snarking. Instead of going on (and on and ON) about a single cover, we’re going to take on five different covers and snipe briefly at them, Snarkywood-style. We hope you enjoy stunning the artwork. And we do mean stunning. No, seriously: the only way you could feel more stunned would be if somebody bapped your head repeatedly with a marble bust of Liberace. Wearing an Indian headdress.

Proud Eagle
Yes, indeed a proud specimen of Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Sarah: Excuse me, Mr. Eagle, what exactly do you have to be proud of, there? Your interestingly-placed bow, shooting up from your crotch there? Does that, perhaps, symbolize something?

It sure can’t stand for your hunting abilities.  I mean, the bird you’re aiming at is BEHIND YOU, dumbass.

Candy: I was under the impression that most Indians don’t suffer from the same kind of pallor the average Oregonian does from being deprived of sun for 6 months out of the year. I’ve seen fishbellies with healthier skin tone. I mean, this guy would qualify as Oscar Wilde-grade “interestingly pale.” Maybe he’s recovering from a bout of fever? That would explain why he’s aiming in the wrong direction.

Savage Hero
Not just any kind of hero--a SAVAGE hero!

Sarah: He’s not savage. He’s mentally disabled. Look: Flaccid bow and arrow shot - no firm erect bowstring for him! Also, if he’s Native American, so am I. How much more anglo can a dude look? He’s like a wanna-be beta male wishing he were a Savage Hero. Picture him at the Halloween party: “No, NO I’m a SAVAGE HERO I tell you!”

Candy: I know Bronson Pinchot’s career has pretty much tanked since Perfect Strangers was cancelled, but really, did he have to resort to Indian drag to put food on his table? Because here I submit to you: Separated at birth, Savage Hero guy and Balki Bartokomous.
Separated at birth? Separated at birth?

Savage Devotion
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Sarah: Savage Devotion?

My ass. Savage hairdryer maybe.

Candy: Does Charlie Sheen have a younger brother with a serious waxing fetish? Again, I submit for your perusal:
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Savage Fires
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Sarah: Darling, get UP!  THE TEE PEE IS ON FIRE!  We need to get out of here! But wait, I am transfixed by your giant chin, and I cannot move! it is making me weak!

Candy: “IT BURNS WHEN I PEEEEEEE!”

“That’s because your dick is on fire, dumbass.”

When Passion Calls
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Sarah: Ha. When People Fall, is more like it. Or, when nature calls - “here, pee right here you half-conscious woman!”

Also, why does he not have a neck? And his face looks like a forensic composite head.

Candy: Reasons why this cover creeps me out:

  1. No. Neck.
  2. The Exorcist-worthy angle of their heads.
  3. Fringed. Buckskin. Pants.
  4. A rushing river is no place to show off your tango moves, you stupid bitches. And judging by the way the woman’s hair is flying, he’s dipping her at considerable velocity. Is he the primary beneficiary of her life insurance plan? Because maybe he’s trying to dash her head on the river bank or something.

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Picture of white raven said on...
04.10.05 at 01:26 PM |

These are case in points where the covers match the interiors of the books - stupid and ridiculous.  But your comments on them are funny and dead-on. 

I showed one of these to my brother-in-law who is a full-blood Mohawk.  His remark was “Who’s the white dude wannabe?” :)

Picture of Sarah said on...
04.10.05 at 01:39 PM |

HAHAHAHA White dude wannabe! Oh my gosh that’s funny.

Picture of Bron Bron said on...
04.10.05 at 10:21 PM |

Every time I read that last title, I read it as ‘When Passion Fails’. And looking at the two of them on the cover, I think, no wonder.

BTW, has he got some tentacled alien buried underneath the skin on his back?

Picture of Kate R Kate R said on...
04.11.05 at 03:12 AM |

yeah, Bron’s right. I can’t believe you missed that back, SBs. That is the scariest picture in this blog and that’s saying something.

Picture of Sarah Sarah said on...
04.11.05 at 05:31 AM |

You are so right - I didn’t notice it until after we’d put it up. To my mind it kind of looks like the slightly-obvious naked women hidden in the drawings of the camel on packs of Camel cigarettes. But yeesh. No neck AND an alien? Poor dude needs some passion. Or he needs to put that girl down and get some medical treatment.

Picture of Candy said on...
04.11.05 at 06:03 AM |

Goddamn, I can’t believe we missed it! Bron’s right: dude looks like he has a goddamn face-hugger buried in his back. GROSS. Maybe that’s why he’s tilting her at that bizarre angle? It’s time for to be laying eggs down her gullet?

Picture of Caro Caro said on...
04.11.05 at 06:10 AM |

Great snark, guys.  I definitely have to agree with the ban on fringed bucksin pants.

The only problem with this entry was that after seeing those pictures, I’ve now been put off my breakfast. :)

Picture of emdee said on...
04.11.05 at 09:50 AM |

My half sister who is part Cheyenne read these books.  Edwards is her favorite author.  Go figure.

Picture of Sarah Sarah said on...
04.11.05 at 10:28 AM |

Oh, Emdee, can you tell us why? We can’t find a redeeming thing about any part of the Edwards oeuvre. Insight needed!

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