Like you needed another one: you can see something I drew.

(also see article at Holt Uncensored)

What the New York Observer doesn't mention is that Greg Dinallo's appalling work on Babylon Rising has plainly never touched an editor. It is inconsistent, rambling and incoherent, full of similes where metaphors belong. Everything seems to be something else; where Jenkins might have filled the space with recaps, Dinallo went to town with useless description. I don't expect much better from Bob Phillips on The Secret of Ararat and its followup, but at least it'll be a different kind of bad.

That said, I blame Talon -- a falconer with a lethally sharp prosthetic finger -- squarely on LaHaye, because that's the type of stupid-evil which just reeks of creator hamfistedness. "No! I have to have an assassin who kills with one finger, because it's cool!" Yeah, go back to pretending you co-wrote Left Behind.

I'm amused that Random House are pushing Babylon Rising over here as "from the creator of Left Behind," BTW; Tyndale, to the best of my knowledge, never issued the series here. You can get it, but usually in the form of expensive imports, and (church bookstores notwithstanding) only Borders carries the series in its entirety at any given time. Very few people in the UK are going to be seeking out BR on the basis of LB; if anything, it'd be the other way around -- if they're not completely disgusted. I've mostly seen it in airport and train station WHSmiths; my guess is that the people buying it here will mostly be expats or travellers.

( here's my list )

Whoomp! There it continues to be.

So, what would you add to the list?

(ADDENDUM: If you could list the originals, that'd help. Here's mine. Some new additions have been tagged onto that post by others as well.)

music: The Butchies - "Gertrude + Stein"

More later, as Jesus has just turned up. Much as I hate comparing work to other work rather than describing it on its own merits, this is what springs to mind so far:

Prince of Space + Jesus with mail merge + end of Mars Attacks = Glorious Appearing