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2002-11-03

Perhaps it’s the shear size of it that makes me like it so much (it is after all about 27 x 36 cm), but I don’t think so. It’s in the contrast. Black and white areas separated by a big, nice ruin. Now, I have this thing for ruins. They get me excited and I jump around like a kid. My eyeballs pop out of their wet icky sockets and I tend to forget the world around me. In an insensitive way to put it: it triggers my ADD.

Another thing is that the title is pushed aside to the corner at the bottom. It doesn’t try to force itself upon the viewer. It’s almost as it tries to say: “The ruin is the important thing, look at it instead of us down here.” You can just about see it, but there is this white glow around the ruin that creeps into the black area. Amazing stuff.

 
(Corgi 1997 edition)

It has a pentagram on it, as well as embossed sprouts. It is in a twisted way pure genius, because if you think about it you realise that sprouts and the forces of evil have a lot in common. For instance, you’d be much better off if you don’t have to eat any of them. Embossed covers are generally nice as well. They add a new dimension to an otherwise rather limited depth in images.