Title: Fighting Generals
Editor: Phil Hirsch
Cover artist: Mel Crair
Yours for: $10
Best things about this cover:
- Well, insofar as you can describe the "best things" about Nazis ... I'd say that is some fine portraiture. I love the expression on Rommel's face. He looks a bit like Colonel Klink. Accident?
- How many insignias does one man need?
- This title is superlame. I can't wait for the sequel, "Peaceful Generals." That, or "Fleeing Generals"
Best things about this back cover:
- Hmmm. Design on this is pretty nice. Staggered photos, staggered descriptions, on a two-tone back ground. Kind of evokes the stripes on a flag. Kind of evokes chaos.
- Of course the Russian sounds the worst. Hello, 1960! Fuck you, Commies!
Page 123~
The stooped old man looked harmless—but Hitler's killers knew he was a deadly threat to the Nazi empire!
This may be the first time my "Page 123" has been an above-the-chapter-title teaser. Dynamic!
~RP
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4 comments:
A general named "Doolittle" makes me laugh for some reason. I know there's a word for people whose names are a perfect descriptor of them (aptonyms?) but I wonder if there's a word for people whose names are the exact opposite.
I don't think the title is lame at all -- the back cover makes clear that it's in contrast to "Sitting on Their Butts Back at HQ Generals".
It's interesting, though, that the cover features Rommel -- way to go with the patriotism, Pyramid!
What's the deal with putting the German general on the cover?? Oh yeah, this was the cold war--Nazis weren't as bad as those terrible Commies and their "kill Nazis, rape women" generals!
War porn on the level of raped virgins having orgasms and asking for more.
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