Okay, it’s officially International Editions Week here at Casa Larbfeld.
Look what came through the transom today:
This is definitely the most literal cover out of all the Midnighters editions. It’s a scene right out of the book, with all kinds of elements you can’t point to right in the text.
There’s something really sweet about that, almost like a kid’s book cover.
For a truly huge file that reveals all nine kinds of fawsomeness in this cover, click here.
And like most Japanese editions, there’s a dramatis personae page at the beginning. I really like these interpretations of the five midnighters, although I’m sure you guys will find errors in detail.
Click here to read and translate the fine print, or to steal the line art for your own nefarious and illegal purposes. Like making shirts!
August 25th, 2007 23:58
that is so cool.
August 26th, 2007 00:10
is the contest still going on? if so then YAY!!!!!!!!!
if not then: if only i was a month earlier
:.(
August 26th, 2007 00:17
AWESOME! wow i’m gonna go look at the truly huge file
August 26th, 2007 00:24
whoa, that truly is a truly huge file…and i love how the raindrops reflect the scene!
and, um, sorry kim…
August 26th, 2007 00:55
wow. that is nine kinds of amazing. we should have a midnighters manga book translated into englis. (then my friend would actually read it.
) that is sooooo cool.
August 26th, 2007 00:57
COOL. i just found out my science teacher said i didnt turn in an assignment, but i turned it in a day early.
August 26th, 2007 01:06
amy-la, was that last year (and they didn’t tell you), or has school started already where you live?
August 26th, 2007 01:36
best cover ever
August 26th, 2007 01:40
Aw why don’t you have any women’s fit “Team Zane” shirts? Meh.
Love the Japanese cover. Wish there was a Midnighters manga. Scott–if Tokyopop ever contacts you with a proposition for it ACCEPT. Please.
August 26th, 2007 01:56
hey brittany there’s a juniors one in that shirt, but you have to go to that “eco-friendly” section.
August 26th, 2007 02:41
My shirts going to come right before i start my gifted class so i can even nerdieer
August 26th, 2007 02:51
No way!! AHHH!! That’s SO COOL SCOTT!! Congrats!!
Geesh, is there a new language every week? I wonder what language will be next week…hmmm maybe Scottish?! That would be coooooool!!
Kadie-Wa
August 26th, 2007 02:53
Wait…why does Rex have long hair? I never knew that Rex had long hair. I thought it was like…past his ears, not down to his shoulders.
Kadie-Wa
August 26th, 2007 02:54
I WANT SPANISH MIDNIGHTERS! whether it’s for spain or mexico or even cuba i want to read it! but i don’t know if any of those countries—especially cuba—likes us enough for that.
August 26th, 2007 02:54
Fawesome, i wish the US copies had character sketches. Have fun at DragonCon!
August 26th, 2007 03:10
Whoa total COOLNESS!!! that cover is really awesome!!!!!
August 26th, 2007 05:06
Coolio. Although I highly doubt Melissa would ever wear shorts. Wait are those even shorts? Are they jeans tucked into boots? Confuzled.
August 26th, 2007 05:13
the cover looks like a wrinkle in time
August 26th, 2007 05:19
i can’t tell either, emzie, but i think it’s jeans-tucked-into-boots unless her legs get wider past the knee!
i’m watchin the karate kid…that’s like my fave movie idk why…and i just realized: i was the 3rd person to comment! well, technically the 2nd, but i was the 3rd comment. that’s the closest i’ve ever gotten to #1! not that it matters anymore, but WHOA!
August 26th, 2007 06:05
thats amazing but i picture them different but it’s cool too.
August 26th, 2007 06:08
my friend in going to have her b-day party @ 4! this year there was a new middle school open, and i stayed at the one that opened in 2000, and she went to the new one. her school has the initials vmms. its kind of hard to say, so i dont say V.M.M.S, i say the letters as if it were a word. it sort of sounds like vooms
August 26th, 2007 06:09
just to let you know, im in the 8th grade
August 26th, 2007 07:00
it fully took me a minute to realize they were raindrops.
I was like, “are those spheres suppose to be darklings???”
lol
japan looks like a fun place…
i’m watching west side story right now (a romeo and juliet musical) and I was thinking, how cool would it be if Midnighters was a musical??? Or anyother one of Scott’s books for that matter…
Jus imagine a midnighter song with 13 letter words. HAHA!
August 26th, 2007 07:11
I have to say, I like the new English trade covers much more than this.
I’m sort of wondering if the artist for the cover has any idea what Oklahoma looks like. Mountains and an evergreen forest? Washington, maybe. Oklahoma? Never. Plus the raindrops (if that’s what they are) look more like glass balls than diamonds. I’m sorry, but this is annoying me a lot, as what I’ve seen of Oklahoma was desert and fields and not much else, which is also how it’s described in the books. There’s still something I like about it though. Kind of cool.
August 26th, 2007 07:14
I love the Midnighter’s cover! Whenever I read a book with those kinds of covers, after I finish I’ll go back and stare at it for awhile trying to figure out what picture means what.
At first I didn’t understand what those giant floaty orb things were, but I’m pretty sure it’s rain! =]
Funfunfun!
August 26th, 2007 07:20
Wow.
Just…
Wow.
August 26th, 2007 07:21
Kailyx, I didnt notice that before. There are not mountains and evergreens in Oklahoma. Just lots of desert.
August 26th, 2007 08:57
Ah, yes. But they have lots of mountains and evergreens in . . . Japan!
August 26th, 2007 09:29
…”nefarious and illegal purposes…” hahaha, love it!
August 26th, 2007 09:29
=D I would be able to read that book.
I’m so glad for my moms japanese lessons.
August 26th, 2007 11:09
I understand that there are evergreens and mountains in Japan, but the location of the town is important and is mentioned/stressed a lot. I just kind of think they could have been more thorough checking out what Oklahoma looks like, since the location plays a pretty big role in the book.
Then again, I get really picky when it comes to book covers. Ones that I don’t feel properly reflect the book tend to really annoy me.
August 26th, 2007 12:50
I like the cover, it would probably be a little less impressive without the mountains and evergreens… so I really don’t have anything against them.
What annoys me, though is how the symbols aren’t next to the right people on that page with drawings of them. Plus, I think Dess usually wears long skirts-I’m pretty sure, at least.
But yea… it’s still nine kinds of exciting!
August 26th, 2007 13:34
i just started the first book this morning. im about halfway. that cover is like right on clock…icy…
August 27th, 2007 03:08
hey dose anyone now what the profiels say (KawaiiOkashi ) poke poke
August 27th, 2007 03:26
That’s fawesome! Btw, is there gonna be a movie? And if so, is the director or whoever still gonna make the Midnighters, like, older?
August 27th, 2007 07:08
oh a midnighters movie would be cool! it seems like it would be easier to make than the Uglies movie.
August 27th, 2007 13:38
love the cover…fawesome!!
and speaking of cover inconsistancies, it’s always bothered me, on the back pics of the US original midnighters, there’s the five people and all, very cool, but there’s……the wrong number of boys and girls!!!
there’s like, four boys and one girl, as far as i can tell. but really, there should be three girls (melissa, dess, jessica) and two guys (rex and jonathan). so seriously, what’s up with that? sorry, that’s always bothered me.
August 27th, 2007 21:51
haha serafina, i thought you were talking about the jap cover. (i only skimmed the comment)
and i was like, um, can’t you see.. they are clearly girls, with their dresses, long hair, etc.
August 28th, 2007 02:37
That is so freaking FOOL! I so want it! Where can I get it?!
August 28th, 2007 15:34
I M SOOOOOOOOO with ya on that one Serafina-la. that was totally bugging me. and then they have jess on the cover too. but shes also different than the girl on the back. in the first one at least. unhappy-making. (thats 13 letters. just sayin. =P )
August 29th, 2007 13:48
whoaaa! soo cooolio
August 29th, 2007 13:49
weird, thats exactly how i pictured the nieghborhood
August 30th, 2007 08:39
except it never rained while they went flying. or at least it never said they did.
September 1st, 2007 12:07
Wow. That version of Dess looks really, really hot. *stares*
September 2nd, 2007 06:04
Overzealously weird.
October 7th, 2007 03:07
i like the cover……much more literal than our covers……dunno…..is it just me, or in the lower picture, is rex put down as a girl??? it looks like he has long hair and a skirt….correct me if im wrong….
-riderchild-wa =)
October 7th, 2007 03:08
o, yea….PLEASE COME TO MASSACHUSSETS (urgh! did i spell that right??)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-riderchild-wa
October 11th, 2007 10:13
It is so WIERD !!!!
— that is exactly how I pictured Bixby and Jess’ neighborhood.
That pic has some fawesomeness—- Definately