Cover Snark: Seeing Eye Puzzles

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Welcome to Cover Snark!

Also, you’ll start to see Alison popping into some posts and eventually running content. She’s covering for when my mat leave starts, but we have a more formal introduction coming soon.

A furry grizzly bear is roaring with its mouth opened wide. If you look closely at its fur, you'll see the shape of a woman with her blonde hair in a braid.

From C: Lion Hat or Concerning Growth?

Sarah: First, that woman with that braid was on at least 3 New Adult covers I can think of.

Second, this is so disturbing I can’t look directly at it.

Third, what about this says, “Erotic?”

Amanda: I completely missed the woman.

Sarah: Going back to the original question: Hat watch!

A shirtless and pale man with angel wings coming out of the top of his shoulder is holding a disgruntled baby. The angel is kissing the baby's foot.

From Maeve: These are the most ridiculous wings I’ve ever seen attached to a human back . . . so tiny, and attached wrong.

Sarah: Never before has wing placement made my skin crawl. What an auspicious day.

Amanda: We may have had this one before or something similar, but also the bicep to forearm ratio is wild here.

Sarah: Hang on, hang on. Is his bicep muscle drawn on?

Alison: The baby knows something’s wrong here. They’re trying to drop kick this winged monstrosity away.

An angry blur and very shirtless alien man is looking of his shoulder. His eyes are glowing. A racing flag banner is stretched across the bottom of the cover.

From Syntha: Did I read it? Yes. Is the cover bad? Also yes.

Sarah: The minute I saw his face, I heard Elyse’s voice in my head saying, “Oh, buddy! Big feelings!”

Amanda: I saw the racing flags and my first thought was “Formula 1 romances sure are being experimental.”

Sarah: He looks mad. Maybe someone insulted his pec tats?

An illustrated cover of two men. One is a shorter white guy with a blazer, loosened tie, dark pants, and red converse. He has red hair. The other guy is very tall and in a baby blue suit. His tie is red and he has on loafers. He's holding a red umbrella. The background is aquamarine and patterned, but the pattern looks very much like a vagina.

Sarah: What is the height difference between these two characters because the drawings are cracking me up.

Also the background is very…vaginal.

Amanda: Not to mention the title is Read My Lips.

Sarah: That part is cool – one of the characters is a sign language interpreter.

Seriously how tall is the man in the blue suit? Left dude is like a Honda Fit and Right dude is one of those pickup trucks where the hood is level with my head (I’m 5’3”/1.6m).

Amanda: Well my brain definitely went to a different sort of lips.

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