Target Cover Competition - Group 1

[Wayne]

That'll be Tim, then.

[Perry Vale]

Has to be the Doomsday Weapon for me, it was the first DW book I ever bought.

[SiHart]

I can't believe how well The Giant Robot is doing. It's a terrible painting. I much prefer the reprint cover.

Si xx

[Si Hunt]

"The Robot" cover is just a bit silly and stagy, and "Invisible Enemy" captures Tom at an unusual moment, as if just turning round to reply to the question "would you like a cup of coffee?". There's no logic to "K9 & Company" at all, and the addition of a random bit of sky, a gay old archway and a square of floor from a gentleman's public toilet make so sense.

I've gone for "Doomsday" because it's lovely and arty in that seventies way - a very skilled painting.

At least one Pertwee fan remembers his loyalty too!

Si.

[Wayne]

At least one Pertwee fan remembers his loyalty too!

Only trouble is, i don't think it's a particularly good likeness of either Pertwee or Delgado.

[Andrew Curnow]

I agree about Delgado - he looks like he's just swallowed a wasp!

The reprint of T'Doomsday Weapon is far better. But I suppose that's a cover for another round...

[Jason Thompson]

I don't actually like any of them, but I've gone for The Invisible Enemy because I think it's a good picture of Tom, even if it does have a rather drunk looking giant prawn thing lurking in the background in the manner of the 'who the hell are you?' section of FHM (what he wanted: Tom reacting to a thrown beer bottle; what he got: crazy inebriated invertebrate gurning at the camera). Robot is too cluttered, with Tom in the O, an inset, and a scene that doesn't actually hapen in the story involving jets. The Doomsday Weapon has exactly the opposite problem, with far too much blank space, and in the middle of a colourful scene the artist has bunged in some black-and-white pencil drawings of Pertwee and Delgado. K9 and Company is delightfully 80s in style, but is very dull, and has that god-awful 80s 'computer' font, and The Abominable Snowmen is, despite being an acomplished piece of art, really just a Yeti on a dark mountain. No true greats in that selection.

[Nathan]

I like all of Peter Brooks' covers and I've always been sad that they were so quickly recovered. So my vote is for Giant Robot which is very exciting.

The K9 & Co cover is fairly naff, and was presumably done either in a hurry, or by somebody who couldn't be bothered to find out what the story was actually about (it's also, incidentally, one of only two Targets that I've got but never read!).

Read it, it's brilliant!

[Andrew Curnow]

Maybe I'll read it at Christmas!!

[Jonno]

and I've always been sad that they were so quickly recovered

Do we have Ian Levine to thank for that too?

[Andrew Curnow]

Brendan stop honking!

[Nathan]

Maybe I'll read it at Christmas!!

I've always been a fan of the TV version, but relocating it from Morton Harwood in Gloucestershire to Hazelbury Abbas in darkest Dorset really helps heap on the atmosphere for some reason.

[Lord President]

I've always been a fan of the TV version, but relocating it from Morton Harwood in Gloucestershire to Hazelbury Abbas in darkest Dorset really helps heap on the atmosphere for some reason.

Dorset being the home of all things evil, of course!

[Stuart Wallis]

Dorset being the home of all things evil of course

Do we have Ian Levine to thank for this as well?

[quatermass111]

The Giant Robot - for it's endearing "artistic license"!