The PDA Cover Competition - Group 1

[Paul Clement]

A new Planet Skaro, and a new Cover Competition. This time it's going to be the PDA's. Just vote for the cover you think is the best and the winner will go through. Finally, through a process of elimination we'll come up with Planet Skaro's favourite PDA cover.

[Rob McCow]

I've voted for the stylish Atom Bomb Blues. Although it looks like the girl on the cover has sneezed a nuke, it's still pretty cool.

[Paul Clement]

I voted for Divided Loyalties, btw. None of them are stand out great, but this is the better of the three. Business Unusual is definitely the worst of them.

[Rob McCow]

Wasn't Business Unusual the first Colin book? Back when it was OK to just have the Doctor and some swirly bits on the cover.

[Pip Madeley]

I've voted for Divided Loyalties, it's very magical, and technically better than the other two (never liked those cheap swirl covers Black Sheep used to make).

(and if anyone's wondering, I tidied the thread up )

[Andy Mateen]

Divided Loyalties is the best of the bunch but none of then are as good as the old Target covers.





-Andy

[Paul Clement]

Divided Loyalties is the best of the bunch but none of then are as good as the old Target covers.

Couldn't agree more. The Target Novelisation covers have a nostalgia element to them that the NA's, MA's, PDA's and EDA's will never have for me. The artwork may sometimes be better here and there, but I prefer the old covers.

When the BBC website released the e-books with Target style covers, I loved them.

[Larry]

well i did vote for Divded Loyalties..

[Andrew Curnow]

Business Unusual was the first BBC range Who book I bought, but that sense of nostalgia (crikey, it was just over 9 years ago!) doesn't detract from what is a tremendously dull cover. Atom Bomb Blues is nice, but my vote goes to Divided Loyalties, which is a very good cover indeed - the little cut-out heads of Hartnell and Davison aren't seamless, but it's still imaginative, and the negative-Toymaker really jumps out at you.

Mind you, never judge a book by its cover and all that - the actual story is utter drivel.

[Paul Clement]

I really enjoyed reading Divided Loyalties. Well, actually that's not quite true. I enjoyed the parts of Gallifrey where the Doctor is with the Deca. It goes against what I said about losing the mystery of the Doctor being a bad thing, but then I don't consider the BBC Book range to be canon.

[Jonno]

Divided Loyalties for me, which looks like it's going to run away with this one! Never realised there were two Doctor's faces on the cover though - just had a closer look to check! Are both of them in the story then?

[Paul Clement]

Yes, the Fifth Doctor and scenes while the Doctor is still in the Academy on Gallifrey, alongside a host of others including those who are named as The Monk, The Master, The War Chief, Drax and the Rani at the end of the book.

[Jonno]

Cheers Paul - gotta love the fan****y stories!

[SiHart]

I chose Divided Loyalties. Light coloured covers were rare with the BBC Books and they all seemed to be of a higher standard than the darker ones! I like it, it's a good image.

Atom Bomb Blues is ok, nice and colourful and quite a decent image, and Divided Loyalties sufferes fro the generic swirlyness of the first few BBC PDAs.

Si xx

[MacNimon]

Back when it was OK to just have the Doctor and some swirly bits on the cover.

I like just having the Doctor and some swirly bits on the cover!

It's also the most colourful of a pretty dull group. Not that it's a particularly great cover, either...but it got my vote!

[Michael Mills]

Atom Bomb Blues for me. Though there is something of the Octop u ssy about it

[Ralph]

Atom Bomb Blues - any girl that can swallow a nuke gets my vote!

[Dave Tudor]

Atom Bomb Blues - any girl that can swallow a nuke gets my vote!

There's no answer to that!

I went for 'Divided Loyalties', although 'Atom Bomb Blues' is a very striking image. Must say, though, I've never noticed the two Doctors' faces on the playing cards, either.

[Paul Monk]

Divided Loyalties for the same reasons as everyone else.

[Stuart Wallis]

Divided Loyalties for the same reasons as everyone else.

I think I'm going to be just as predictable.

[Paul Clement]

We've already had more votes than we ever had on the old PS site.

[Dirk Gently]

Atom Bomb Blues - any girl that can swallow a nuke gets my vote!

What he said, Atom Bomb Blues gets my vote.

[Stuart Wallis]

We've already had more votes than we ever had on the old PS site.

I knew bribery, corruption and hitting people would work!

[Pip Madeley]

We've already had more votes than we ever had on the old PS site.

A bit of advertising makes a lot of difference

[Stuart Wallis]

And bribery, corruption and corruption the rest, i take it!