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In response to "Sometimes. Buit the tone of the cover couldn't be further from the tone of the book and was driven by the Marketing team/$$ not "artistic freedom" -- nm" by TWuG

I think it was driven more by the fact that it was the 25th anniversary of The Killing Joke that it was paying homage to... -- nm

Posted by Scots-IrishStephen (aka Sceire) Mar 17 '15, 19:53

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Which is fine and good except that The Killing Joke audience and the audience for this book are separate circles. - TWuG Mar 17, 19:59 5
- It also sounded like a lot of the other Joker cvers are lighter in tone, but the artist took it darker. - tobor.2 Mar 17, 20:08 4
  - I think Eaglesham was just asked to provide "a" cover and given mostly free rein. - TWuG Mar 17, 20:12 3
    - Has most of the criticism been about the tone or that it promotes violence against women? nm - Dignan Mar 17, 20:19 1
      - I think there's been both. The less knee-jerky people are arguing tone is the issue. - TWuG Mar 17, 20:27
    - It is a great piece of art and totally inappropriate for that book. And he agrees on the second part. -- nm - tobor.2 Mar 17, 20:18
And $$$$. -- nm - tobor.2 Mar 17, 19:56 1
- Yes, i've already acknowledged that that is one function of variant covers... -- nm - Scots-IrishStephen Mar 17, 19:58
And $$$$. -- nm - tobor.2 Mar 17, 19:56 3
- Bery? Is this on yourend or mine? - tobor.2 Mar 17, 19:59 2
  - Not sure. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 17, 20:05 1
    - I updated FF a week or so ago, but it hadn't changed that before today. -- nm - tobor.2 Mar 17, 20:09

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