View Poll Results: Choose Your Favourite Cover
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Robot/Giant Robot Version 1
7 35.00% -
K9 & Company
0 0% -
Invisible Enemy
5 25.00% -
Colony in Space/Doomsday Version 1
3 15.00% -
Abominable Snowmen Version 2
5 25.00%
Results 1 to 25 of 40
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29th Sep 2007, 5:15 PM #1
Target Cover Competition - Group 1
The Target Cover Competition begins with the 1st of an anticipated 50 first round groups.
The top two covers go through to the nest round...
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29th Sep 2007, 5:19 PM #2
I love Skilleter's work, and Abominable Snowmen is a great example of how good his covers can be. An easy selection for me this time round
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29th Sep 2007, 6:02 PM #3
I've gone for Abominable Snowmen Version 2. It was close between that & Robot/Giant Robot Version 1.
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29th Sep 2007, 6:15 PM #4
The Abominable Snowmen is the first book I ever stole from my local library! An act I deeply regret now!
Great book and cover though!One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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29th Sep 2007, 8:24 PM #5
Good to see this competition resurrected for the "new" PS - I really enjoyed this first time around and having failed to keep up with the most recent cover competition (sorry Paul!) I am determined to make amends now.
Much as I love the early Achilleos covers, I'm afraid that Doomsday (and it is in my collection) is not one I've ever been fond of - no different from the story itself then!
I'm going to plump for Invisible Enemy - if nothing else, I think it's a good image of
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29th Sep 2007, 9:42 PM #6
Jonno went for the Prawn.
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29th Sep 2007, 10:52 PM #7
It's a tough old opening round. Even I'm too young to remember those original covers for The Giant Robot and The Doomsday Weapon (the versions I got were both the more iconic reprint versions); 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!).
The only one for which I have any nostalgia is The Invisible Enemy, but I always think the Doctor's face looks a little too craggy on it, as if carved from stone or something. So, although I prefer the original, I'm going for Skilleter's striking, red-eyed, night-time, snow-bound Abominable Snowman!
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29th Sep 2007, 11:00 PM #8
I think I may, once again, be voting for reasons of nostalgia in many rounds here, and this time is no exception - I've gone for The Invisible Enemy, as it's one of those hardback books I remember from my local library when I was a kid, which I often used to borrow, simply to look at the cover! I will probably be saying that several times in this competition!
It's also quite a good bit of artwork (Jeff Cummins?), and, in my opinion, the best cover here.
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30th Sep 2007, 12:47 AM #9Pip Madeley Guest
Being younger than most here, nostalgia doesn't really come into it for me, so I'll be voting purely on quality/creativity. Giant Robot has a great design at the heart of it, but the execution is a bit disappointing, particularly the likeness of Tom. Invisible NME on the other hand has a great Tom, but lacks excitement. K9 And Co is too simple to win this round, doesn't give us anything from the plot at all. So it comes down to Abominable and Doomsday, both excellent in very different ways. I like the moodiness of the former, with that excellent drawing of the Yeti, but I have to vote for the latter because it's a striking cover with all the important ingredients, and to top it off, excellent likenesses all round.
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30th Sep 2007, 7:54 AM #10It's also quite a good bit of artwork (Jeff Cummins?), and, in my opinion, the best cover here.
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30th Sep 2007, 9:52 AM #11
now this is what I call proper covers some fine art work but Robot, is the clear winner for me.
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30th Sep 2007, 12:57 PM #12One Day, I shall come back, Yes, I shall come back,
Until them, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties, Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine!
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30th Sep 2007, 1:28 PM #13
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30th Sep 2007, 7:28 PM #14I think I may, once again, be voting for reasons of nostalgia in many rounds here, and this time is no exception - I've gone for The Invisible Enemy, as it's one of those hardback books I remember from my local library when I was a kid, which I often used to borrow, simply to look at the cover! I will probably be saying that several times in this competition!
I'm looking forward to seeing of the results will be different this time round.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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30th Sep 2007, 8:46 PM #15
I always loved that Robot cover and nostalgia kicks in also on the Doomsday Weapon, I can't remember the book being as dull as the actual production though
So it's Robot for me!
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30th Sep 2007, 9:35 PM #16
OMG!! RALPH CALLED A PERTWEE STORY DULL!!!!!!!!!!
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30th Sep 2007, 9:54 PM #17Pip Madeley Guest
I'm sure Pertwee's reaction would be:
... FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!
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30th Sep 2007, 10:14 PM #18
@Jonno & Pip
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30th Sep 2007, 11:15 PM #19Wayne Guest
Abominable Snowmen is a contender, but despite that awful representation of Tom in the 'O', it has to be 'Robot'.
It's a good likeness of Tom on the 'Invisible Enemy' cover, but otherwise it's a dull cover. The remaining 2 covers are a bit rubbish, though.
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30th Sep 2007, 11:50 PM #20
It's Tom in the 'O'! I thought it was Terry Walsh!
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30th Sep 2007, 11:57 PM #21
I'd never really thought of it before, but seeing the Robot swatting and destroying the planes is another nod to its King Kong influences - shame that wasn't in the actual programme! Then again, given the tank...
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1st Oct 2007, 12:01 AM #22Wayne Guest
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1st Oct 2007, 12:23 AM #23
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1st Oct 2007, 12:38 AM #24Wayne Guest
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1st Oct 2007, 12:40 AM #25Pip Madeley Guest
Not unstained, anyway.
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