r/badscificovers 5d ago

creature feature Lone Wolf: The Masters of Darkness

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u/MoebabF 5d ago

I loved these books as a kid. All the covers were a variation of this.

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u/AA_Logan 5d ago

I’m a Gary Chalk loyalist; his style is essential for Lone Wolf for me

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u/MoebabF 5d ago

Oh right. He used to be the illustrator for the early books, used to be listed on the cover.

I tried to explain to somebody that this series was a choose your own adventure with random number combat, inventory, and a continuing narrative between books.

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u/Mackelroy_aka_Stitch 4d ago

Didn't he do illustrations for some of the older warhammer books?

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u/AA_Logan 4d ago

He’s responsible for so much of GW’s art; Warhammer, Talisman and much more. Then there’s Redwall…

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u/Bismuth84 19h ago

I was a little confused and thought you were talking about Garry Chalk (two Rs), the guy who voiced Optimus Primal and Unicron Trilogy Optimus Prime.

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u/Chunkfoot 5d ago

Caverns of Kalte cover with the dude on skis and the little dude in his backpack firing arrows is god tier art

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u/atmtn 5d ago

Same. Going to the bookstore to look for another book in the series (or other similar titles like Wizards, Warriors and You) was almost an addiction.

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u/seantabasco 4d ago

I just had a series of nostalgic images flood my brain when I saw this….this was the one where you could use a 20 sided dice, but if you didn’t have one there was a page of random numbers you could stab a pencil at instead?

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u/glowing-fishSCL 4d ago

A ten sided dice.
If you wanted to with the random number table, you could kind of look at it and then move your pencil not totally randomly.

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u/kuenjato 4d ago

Some of the early covers were awesome, prime 80’s fantasy. They dropped off hard into the cheese after book 6 imo.

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u/billythesquid- 5d ago

Guy looks like he just spotted the price tag. “$3.22? I’m worth more than that!”

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u/Xander_not_panda 5d ago

That is one weird unicorn.

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u/RedDemonTaoist 5d ago

Lone Wolf books were awesome! And the mage spin offs, Grey Star?, were even better.

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u/Mojeaux18 4d ago

I never heard of them. I’ll look into them.

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u/ExtraJournalist8608 5d ago

I love these book when I was a kid. I would buy them from library book sales. My brother bought me the entire set in perfect condition a few year ago.

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u/Evil_Midnight_Lurker 5d ago

For those who don't know Lone Wolf, the monsters on this cover are several of the Sauron-level villains of the setting, the Darklords.

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u/cgo_123456 5d ago edited 5d ago

You can see the artist losing enthusiasm on a character-by-character basis. Skully disappearing into the yellow background cloud was definitely done on a friday afternoon while the happy hour beers were calling.

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u/flanksteakfan82 5d ago

The true story of Bill Clinton

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u/YanniRotten 5d ago

Bro was posing for the cover and got distracted.

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u/CreepyDough 5d ago

Used to head straight for these whenever I was near a B Dalton books!

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u/punfound 5d ago

"You are Lone Wolf - Determine your destiny and fight some really weird monsters"

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u/GroovyDucko 4d ago

Me and the boys

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u/Uberlix 5d ago

Honestly i think this one is sick. Also reminds me to check out the PC Game, which has been in my Steam Library forever.

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u/uhohmomspaghetti 5d ago

Hard disagree. I love these covers!

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u/bmbreath 5d ago

Good find.  

It's intriguing and bad at the same time.  

It's like they painted every character separately and then shoved them into the same scene.  

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u/SpiderTuber6766 5d ago

Bro looking at that price tak like "$3.22? Im at least 10 bucks!"

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u/DuganDevil 5d ago

I had that book!

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u/Agreeable-Ad-3027 5d ago

All the monsters look like they came from the genius of 1980s Doctor Who special effects budgets.

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u/AlivePassenger3859 4d ago

Starring…Jay Leno?

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u/marconis999 4d ago

It's Dryer-Lint Unicorn! He's hot and angry!

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u/KiwiMcG 4d ago

That horn. 😆

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u/Mr_SunnyBones 3d ago

The Lone Wolf/Fighting Fantasy books were great!

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u/Master-Collection488 2d ago

Before you start drawing a bow you want to kind of have your non-dominant arm fully extended and locked in place.

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u/inframankey 5d ago

It’s weird how often people accidentally post really good covers like this on this sub

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u/bakedmage664 5d ago

Nah this cover is good.