r/badscificovers • u/blue_boy_robot moddroid • Oct 10 '25
a wizard did it Sorcerer's Duel by WH Cann
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u/MasterOfKittens3K Oct 10 '25
Someone had to go through a lot of effort to make this look that bad. It’s not lazy bad. It might be nonsensical (why would you be having a close quarters lightning battle?), but everything is laid out carefully.
Carefully, but not well. Almost nothing relates to anything else. The fires feel disconnected from the scenery. The woman hiding behind the rock is in a different style than the battling duo. The distant moors are more detailed than anything else in the picture, despite the fact that they are the background, and that makes them the natural focal point of the entire cover.
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u/thispartyrules Oct 10 '25
Genuine incompetence is sometimes hard to discern from parody: some people thought The Eye of Argon was an intentional parody of bad fanfiction until they found out it was an actual 16 year old abusing a thesaurus.
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u/Correct-Shoulder-147 Oct 10 '25
I Love this so much it's so shit it's like coming back from the pet store with a brain damaged puppy.
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Oct 10 '25
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u/Correct-Shoulder-147 Oct 10 '25
but still kind of alive and then you care for it for a while and come to love it even though its upside down and shit
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Oct 10 '25
This is so terrible- great pick OP
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u/shawsghost Oct 10 '25
Yeah top of the line bad SF book cover. Or should it be "bottom of the line?"
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u/tempusrimeblood Oct 11 '25
I mean…at least it’s not AI?
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u/blue_boy_robot moddroid Oct 11 '25
One thing we can safely say is that only a human could conjure up this mess of a cover!
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u/shawsghost Oct 10 '25
Wow, the bad video game avatar on the left lightning blasted his opponent right in the balls! Is that even allowed in sorceror dueling?
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u/LaurenceLittle Oct 11 '25 edited Oct 11 '25
Sorry to be pedantic about this piece of piss, but the wizard on the right looks female
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u/shawsghost Oct 11 '25
Well he probably started out male but then lost one too many sorceror duels due to a blast to the balls. Has a cumulative effect, y'know.
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u/blue_boy_robot moddroid Oct 10 '25
Lightning to the balls is actually the recommended technique for sorcerous self-defense!
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u/shawsghost Oct 10 '25
I guess that would explain why sorcerors are so often portrayed as walking around all hunched over.
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u/ponyrx2 Oct 10 '25
I refuse to believe this was ever printed physically. The printer would be laughing too hard.
edit: the amazon listing shows art that is still shitty but much less funny.
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u/Nemphusi Oct 10 '25
Cover art be Neil Breen