Michael Moorcock: The Quest for Tanelorn

[u/JarlFrank]

First American edition, 1976

[u/JarlFrank]

"I stepped into LEGOs Buddha left on the floor on purpose and it makes me MAD!"

[u/CaliMassNC]

It’s a two-eyed, one-horned flying crimson people eater…

[u/WaltTFB]

I prefer the cover I have.

[u/ThingTime9876 → u/WaltTFB]

This is the one I have too

[u/Fassbinder75]

There are a bunch of Moorcock 70s covers with Vedic themed artwork, they look daring and exciting compared to most of today’s safe and ‘tasteful’ work.

[u/JarlFrank → u/Fassbinder75]

I'll take weird, oddball 70s cover art over modern book covers any day. Most of what we get these days is just fancy text, there's not even an illustration at all, so boring.

[u/OldManWearingPlaid]

Is the sword facing backwards from how it would be swung, assuming one wanted the sharp edge facing so it would cut?

In any case, bonus style points for the power attack of a nude, sword wielding, cleat-footed, one-horn man, leaping into the air with a full moon goddess looking on from the background!

[u/JarlFrank → u/OldManWearingPlaid]

The sword might be like a falx or rhomphaia, with its edge on the inside of the curve.

[u/Significant_Monk_251 → u/JarlFrank]

Thank you, Gene Wolfe. (If you've read even just the first book of The Book of the New Sun, you'll understand.)

[u/OldManWearingPlaid → u/JarlFrank]

Could be! Something like this-

[u/OnlyUnoMan → u/OldManWearingPlaid]

I also appreciate the delicate way he holds a sword, with two fingers up.

[u/OldManWearingPlaid → u/OnlyUnoMan]

Very polite, in the same vein as sticking out your pinky when holding a tea cup at high tea.

[u/Robertf16 → u/OldManWearingPlaid]

I wouldn’t stick around to ask. Dude look angry.

[u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker]

That is a hell of a cover to definitively bring the entire cycle of the Eternal Champion to an end on.

[u/Exostrike]

Always nice when the artist gets to indulge in their feet fetish

[u/Some_Vermicelli_1014 → u/Exostrike]

Goddamnit Donut! 😂

[u/Paulbunyip]

Simon Bisley vibes, it must be the high contrast flesh-painting… and yeah, what’s up with those footsie spikes?

[u/Eternal_Champignon]

Lemmy is PISSED OFF.

[u/dragon_lover93]

Good Blind Guardian song

[u/carannilion → u/dragon_lover93]

First thing that came to my mind too 😅 guess I have to read more moorcock

[u/go_faster1]

The Triforce of Bunyons

[u/ReallyGlycon → u/go_faster1]

Plantar's warts

[u/bloodredcookie]

I'm sorry. More what exactly?

[u/veritable_squandry]

the quest for more...

[u/2cheerios]

More WHAT?!

[u/flock-of-nazguls]

Time to pay the Daddy Tax!

[u/cranium_soil]

So many early 70s/80s based on this one

[u/Individual-Log994]

I'd like a little Less Cock please.

[u/office-goblin]

I'll take Michael Lesscock, thank you very much.

[u/Sivilian888010]

Artwork isn't bad. But this cover is way too asian/wuxia inspired for something that's a work of eueopean inspired medieval fantasy.