Target Cover Competition - Group 12

[Paul Clement]

[Dirk Gently]

This for me is between The Sensorites & The Reign of Terror.
Caves of Androzani & Ark in Space are boring & Earthshock is just lazy!
So, The Sensorites seems cluttered & The Reign of Terror is just a single picture which is really good art work & gets my vote.

[Rob McCow]

The Ark In Space is quite cool, I especially like the way its design matches the Revenge of The Cybermen re-issue.

[SiHart]

It's Caves of Androzani for me. I think Skilleter hit his peak with the season 21 covers and this one is especially good.

The others are ok. The two Hartnells are fine paintings, but rather dull, the Earthshock one, well what can you say really and The Ark in Space is rather nice.

Si xx

[Larry]

thinl they are all pretty awful to be honest but Reign of Terror , is at least carches the eye.

[Pip Madeley]

Ark In Space is stylish, the rest are so 80s/garish/old-fashioned (delete as applicable).

[Andrew Curnow]

Euch, they're all pretty stinky. I think the least dreadful is the one for Androzani. Just to elaborate:

The Sensorites is too cluttered, and the ship looks just wrong.
The Reign of Terror is a nice idea for a composition, but is very poorly done. The figures all look odd to me.
Earthshock is another less-than-inspiring photo, and choosing one of the Doctor with a gun (rather than, say, A CYBERMAN!!!) is pretty daft.
And The Ark in Space shows the Wirrrn's feet for goodness sakes. If the director wisely pointed his camera away from them, don't bloody paint them on the cover of the book!!!!

[Paul Clement]

Sensorites is quite a good cover, though as Andrew mentioned, a little cluttered. Hartnell is pretty well captured, and it's good to see the Sensorites on the cover.

Reign of Terror encapsulates the story extremely well, and has a good likeness of Hartnell to enhance a great bit of artwork.

Earthshock is the most dramatic of the photo covers and it's definitely the only one that I like, but it's still weaker than most of the other covers in the range.

I like Caves of Androzano a lot. The regeneration swirl above Sharaz Jek's head looks a bit odd, but it's bold and colourful.

Ark in Space is the worst of the five, and reiterates what an awful artist Pearson generally was with the reprints. It's absolutely dull and the Wirrn in the foreground looks completely ridiculous.

Reign of Terror just pips Caves of Androzani for my vote, but I'd be happy to see either of these, or Sensorites get through.

[Dave Tudor]

Apart from The Sensorites, they're all fairly good in their own way - yes, even Earthshock, which I was tempted to go for for nostalgic reasons. However, none are more than 'fairly good', but at least 'The Reign Of Terror' is faintly dramatic, and I quite like the artist's (Tony Masero?) style here, so that gets my vote.

[Lord President]

Androzani sums up Sharaz Jek's inner turmoil for me, with a hint of Colin Baker thrown in for good measure!

[Wayne]

Ark pips Caves. The rest are rubbish.

[Stuart Wallis]

I quite like The Sensorites. I quite like the rest actually, but Sensorites is the one i like most.

[Jonno]

I like both the Hartnells and have gone with Reign - I like the Doc's outfit, the guillotine and the raised arms of the crowd. A reminder that it's not all sci-fi glitz!

The other three are pretty poor, though Earthshock was probably my favourite photographic cover.