It’s the first of the month, so it’s time for the April art reveal!
I won’t tell you what chapter of Goliath this is from, because that might be too, um, spoilery.
Please enjoy!
Click here for a zoomable version! And then, you know, zoom some.
Don’t forget the meet-up next Saturday/Sunday (depending on your time zone). I’ll be there to answer all your questions.
Scott-la
Will you PRETTY PLEASE tell us in your next post if the girl is Lilit or her evil clone? And if this was a photoshop Alek/Deryn switch? I think I’m not the only one asking you about this…PLEASE?
I don’t think its Lilt, they left her in Turkey. I reakon its some American chick, that makes sense cause they visit America, I think. Well its looks great! I can’t wait to see how that situation arose!!!!
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT GIRL IS PULLING A KNIFE OUT OF THE FLOWERS!!
Maybe everyone has already realized this but didn’t and now I’m, like, AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! WHAT’S GOING ON!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alek: “Say hello to my little friend!”
Gr!!!!!!!!! This is killin me ta kno wat tge heck is going on! Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! strikes again.
Ha! I kinda hope this is a Superman moment for Alek.
*Superman Theme in background*
GET OUT OF THE WAY!! I’M SAVING MY GIRL!!!”
😀
It looks like a movie poster showing two awesome scenes at once to make it all the more awesome…but i say its a dream.
@ The Joker-la thank you for reassuring me. And yes, now that I think about it, she did try to tell him twice…as I always say: third time’s the charm! but it’d be stupid if she tried telling him x2 in this book and it is accidentally blurted out in conversation, or overheard…no, that wouldn’t be stupid, THAT’D BE AWESOME!!! [sry for my rant 🙂 ]
I wonder if he’s waiting for 250 comments before he lets us know what in the world is going on. Like he did with the voting for the last reveal.
Anyway, I said this on the forum, but I’m thinking dream/photoshop. Because the two pictures do look like they’ve be photoshopped together, and the top part is entirely plausible. I could see something like that happening. But the bottom part? Especially Volger, Barlow, and Bovril. It’s just a bit corny, and this series isn’t really corny. So I’m thinking Deryn or someone is having a dream for the bottom part of the picture.
And I do agree that the figure in the top portion of the picture is a bit girly. They’ve got some curves on them, so maybe it’s Deryn? Not sure, but there better be an explanation soon. Come on Scott, stop laughing at us and just tell us already!
I feel like such a nerd. I had to sneak into the school library after lunch on Friday because I totally forgot to check that morning for it. My English teacher was in there with his class, and I had to get on a computer around him, I checked this blog, screamed and got strange looks from the librarians and now he thinks I’m crazy. After the next class I went to the library again, printed out both pictures that you released and carried them both around all throughout my last block, gym, while ranting about theories of this picture and why I was so frustrated about where the last book left off, while recruiting more people to read Leviathan that way that they know what the hell I’m talking about, and then talked about it to my family and friends for the rest of the day and now the pictures are happily hanging on the wall above my bed. XD There was no point in putting this comment aside from taking pride in being such a big geek.
Also, it just now came to my attention that this was put out on April fool’s day you evil genius, you. My guess is that while it may very well be a joke, it’s not photoshopped. People keep on commenting on the blurry outlines on Deryn, the Lillit look alike, Doctor Barlow and Volgar, but if you look closely at some of Thompson’s other drawings, the same sort of blurry outline is around some areas. It’s just more consistent in this drawing than most, which could mean a variety of things from trying to get the figures to stand out to the lighting and technique (take this from an over analyzing art student). If you look close enough in the back as well, you can see an outline of the church doors or an opening to the chapel. I could be wrong, as I’m not particularly skilled in photoshop, but it just doesn’t seem worth the time to go through the trouble to prank us like that. Although I can see you having fun with making us /think/ it’s a prank.
As well, I’ve read online a few theories and I know from experience of reading your books that most of your romance sub plots don’t always have an exactly happy ending. My suspicions are leaning towards Deryn, or someone important in this book dying, hence the knife that the Lillit look alike is holding. I will admit that while that would be brilliant, I would spend my entire night crying my eyes out XD. I’ve also thought about the fact that maybe Alek already knows about Deryn, rather that’s been my theory since the last picture you let out.
I’ll stop talking now, but can’t wait till Goliath comes out. Pre-ordering soon that way I get it the day it comes out ; D
@Julia. Hecks yeah, as far as Photoshop goes, the fuzz around them is nothing unique. Look at page 82 in behemoth. Deryn and Alek have a haze around them. Or page 97 in Behemoth, there is a haze around some of the objects there as well. So I think the haze is being overanalyzed.
And it’s like I was saying before with Photoshop, not saying it can’t be done because it very well can, but it’s a lot of work just for an April Fool’s joke. I think this picture is completely legit. Scott is perfectly capable of coming up with something this epic and creative. The series does have flying whales after all.
Awww… A little while ago I was telling my friend about my theory of what’s happening in this pic. But apparently it’s fake… Not fair… cuz your gonna have to hear it anyway… HA HA HA!!
Ok, ALEK is going to have to marry marry this creep to do something, IDK, maybe to end the war. But Deryn must have overheard a secret plan to kill Alek (see the girl pulling a knife out of the flowers). So, Deryn, like, stuffs Alek in a closet or something. and takes his place so he won’t be killed. And the girl is too stupid to see that it’s not Alek she’s marr- I mean… killing. So anyway, Alek, wakes up in his closet and somehow learns about the plan, and goes to rescue “Dylan”.
IT’S FAKE?!?!?!?! Awwwwwww…… At least it’s Lilit in the dress!!!! XD
what the heck 6:43 morning first visit to website wow lilit’s got a knife a germen clanker and docter barlow is she with volger i don’t know i say dream
wait were’s alek i mean volger’s there but that means alek has to be there to right come on he never leav’s aleks side if hf dosn’t have to. oh yea and why is bovril the ring berer
Yay! You actually confesssed!
I had a feeling that everyone else besides me wanted to know…
I don’t care if it’s april fools’, Alek looks so BAMF in the picture!
and lol @ random falling sailor.
Wait, but doesn’t Lilit know Deryn’s a girl?
To start things off this is gonna probably be a very long comment.
Okay, first things first, the joker la your jimmi hendrix quote was actually a quote he used from a book called the sight and to use another quote from this book that is relevant to te topic ” a love, that is, as deep as despair”
Next, am i the only one who cant over Volgers face palm its like crash! Facepalm, (sigh) oh the epicness of a lordly facepalm
To continue on, there are several reasons why this picture cant be real such as:
1. The walker alek is driving obviously isnt his so i ask where he got one. They are obviously in a darwinist city, as exampled by the glow worm lamp and their presence in the city, so im sure alek didnt just find the walker on the side of the street. And the walker is really big, there is no whole in which it entered the church.
2. Deryn and lilit getting married as if! First of all deryn left lilit behind in turkey and as supported by the words “i was just curious” in behemoth, i believe that lilit figured out deryn was a girl, but kissed her anyway. And lilit doesnt have a twin, but a brother who had died previous to the story. Plus, she wouldnt kill deryn( reference to the knife).
3. Dr. Barlow and volger. It is possible for her to have gained feelings for volger , but she has way to much self pride to be all touchy feely with volger in public as she is shown. Some argue that she might have been comforting volger, but barlow isnt the comforting type and if she epexted this or that something to do with it, she would have sat there unfased with a smug look on to the face.
4. Now back to the things focused on alek that are wrong. First, heis wearing what closely resembles a usa civil war confederates army jacket. He had never been to america, nonetheless, ever heard of the civil war, s explain the jacket.
5. To aleks hat and gun. They are both obviously german, so where exactaly did he get them. Hes still in japan, a darwinist country. Besides if he wanted an explosive entrance i suggest c-4. This picture is a piece of shyza
6. Still on alek,he is in a church, walking on pews,so after an in dept look at force, and transferred momentum, i decide that the wood and men would not fly in a manner as such shown in the picture,with the movement depicted.
7. Why is noone reacting to the giant walker crashing in the church, beside bovril.
8. And to deryn again, how could she to through all the tailoring for that suit without someone finding out shes really a girl.
Now for my own feelings toward the picture, wow, damn deryn looks good in a suit, and alek is a total badass, man
Thats all i have to say and danke for reading; )
OMG! I’m ALL late but when I saw this at some posting on Tumblr, my heart skipped a beat! >.<!!
Thank GOD it was a joke. Although, I do like what was going on here. I will scream like the fangirl that I am if this does happen in the book!
Hahaha. I love Deryn. 🙂
Is this really not real? DAMN! It’s so fricking awesome! What IS real, then? Is the world real? Am I real? I don’t know what to believe anymore.
One thing I DO know, though: we can NEVER trust our good friend Scott-la again.
EVER. He’ll probably release the book in September, only to say it’s not the real one!
The sneaky bastard. 🙂
Stop lying to us, you evil mastermind!
I really wanted it to be real… xD
Wow, Lillit is a crazy bee-yatch!
You guys just now realized this was fake! Get with the program you shyza-cofs!
Dummkopf.
Is that…Lilit? I don’t think so, but….
I LOVE VOLGER’S FACE~!
*reads next post*
Agh, this isn’t real? Oh my God, Scott! Why would you do that? It’s so…so…AWESOME! Aaugh!
*reads next post again*
It IS Lilit? *quintuple facepalm*
AAAHHH!!! Alec looks sooooo cute in this and totally has the crazy nutter thing down pat.( double fisting a sword and a gun, breaking into church, adding a skull and crossbones to his walker, screaming, etc.) Are Volger and Barlow dating or something?????? OH, and Mr. Westerfeld, YOU HAVE TO NAME THE OTHER LORUS CHOCHO!!! MY BEST FRIEND AND I HAVE ALREADY DECIDED IT!!!!!! 😀 😀
WAIT!!!!!!! I know this is a fake, BUT, I have a question anyway. If Alec in coming out of the hatch, with his hands full, who is hoisting him up, and, more importantly, WHO THE **** IS DRIVING THE WALKER!?!?!?!?!?
*makes insanely confused face*
The beastie as the ring bearer is the best part of course. And meanwhile Deryn’s soooooo jealous of Lilit’s rack, which she shouldn’t be of course, because she’s a freaking gorgeous man! And girl I’m sure too.
You really should have made the joke Deryn decked out in womens clothing. That would be new!
hey i take pride in my extensive use of german words please dont copy i dont very much appretiate it, danke, and keep copying me and i just might switch to french. then you wont be able to keep in my language conquest. so take my advice and femme helo la boushe when it comes to this. by the way femme helo la boushe means shut the hell up in french 😀
@ bella d. la- max fan: you’re a blue meanie! There, I speak Yellow Submarine!
Dummkopf.
Hey, Ana Dor, I bet Deryn’s JUST as large as Lillit; you just can’t tell, cuz of all the carful tailoring, remember?
More importantly, I WANT her to be just as large as Lillit. 🙂
that is legit 😀 i love it.
alek: DYLAN! I MEAN DERYN! DON’T WORRY! I SHALL SAVE YOU (cuz youre mine!)!!!!>:O
deryn: O____O dr. barlow…. what was the point of this plan again?…ALEK. don’t spoil my secret to everyone!!! OTL
lilit: “deryn?”….dylan, what’s the meaningn of this???!!!!! D: (le gasp)
volger: *facepalm*
barlow: MWHAHAHAHAHA my evil plan is working >:D
Gimme a second tyo wipe the remains of my brain of the computer….
JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS PICTURE!!!
I’m not on the internet for a few days and this is what happened!?
Good thing I came after Scott told us it was fake (or is it!?) otherwise i would have been tormented like the rest of you. Kinda sad its fake though.
excuse me for the above typo. I meant ” to” not tyo what ever it means
*PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT* I spit my apple juice all over the screen. This is a shock…. sorry… my brain isn’t working quite right…
WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL IS GOING ON!!!!!!!!??????
Why is deryn marrying lillit? why is alek bursting in so badass like? Are barlow and volger flirting in the back ground? And Bovril as the ring bearer is adorable! Deryn is very nice in that tux.
WHY DID THIS HAPPEN WHEN I WAS AWAY (WITHOUT INTERNET)!WHYYYYYYY?
ok, after laughing my head off at the picture and the comments I had to leave my own (comment).
I DONT GET IT AT ALL!!!!! I mean i know that’s Deryn/Dylan in the tux and Lillit is the bride and thats alek in the insanly awsome walker and of course there’s volger, dr. barlow and bovril as the ring bearer (LOL). But I don’t get the plot of this pic at all. Everyone up front seem to have no idea that Alek and his skull and crossbones walker is crashing through the building for some unknown reason with guys flying all around him…and then there’s Lillet pulling a knife from her bouquet like she’s about to murder Deryn (who shes suposed to like)!
Even though this is an April Fool’s joke the pieces of this puzzle just don’t fit.
On the record-I think it should be Deryn doing the epic facepalm because she cant help but wonder how in the world she got roped into marrying a girl… and then of course here comes the prince to rescue her or something.
Anyway… Off the record-Am I the only barking american who read the Leviathan series, I mean what’s up with the whole Scott-la thing. IDK, I guess Im not the brightest crayon in the box.
To Lilit: YOU MONSTER!!!!!
To Deryn: OMG I’m sooo sorry, you shouldn’t go through with this! You BELONG with Alek!
To Alek: Yeah… nice moves. 😀
VOLGERS DOING AN EPIC FACEPALM! just sayin 😉
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I was so shocked my mind went. ‘WHY THE HELL IS DERYN MARRYING LILITH…WHERE”S ALEK!!!’ then when i read further on i was like ‘oh’ phew…its an april fools… but hmm…i concur with the photoshop theory suggested earlier on. the alek cool walker could be in a battle scene of some sort. I have no idea how can the lilith deryn marraige scene with the volger facepalm and the ‘there there’ barlow will fit. maybe its alek’s and deryn’s wedding…but why would deryn have a knife….idk…im just thankful that deryn isn’t getting married to lilith.
But I do agree here-
This picture should be put in the back of the book somewhere! Maybe as the iiiiinsiiiiide coooooveeeeeeeeeeer???? *Drawing out syllables to make it clear that this SHOULD and probably MUST be done*
XD
1. *Squeels like fangirl an flaps*
2. Alek looks so FAWESOME! I want an Alek!
3. Deryn looks handsome
4 Varlow action?!
Okay so here goes my crack-pot theroy: Barlow (who has a thang goin on with Volger ;)) has orchestaighted some plan in which Lilit and deryn get fake married to accoplish god knows what, but no one tells Alek. Alek figures out Deryn is a girl an that he Looooooooves her, so he steals the walker and crashes the weeding all like “NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Deryn my love I shall save you and we shall ride off into the sunset together!” Then Volger does his epic facepalm cuz hes all like “Stupid prince! What did i do, god, to deserve *this*” Barlows all ‘there there dear, i shall help you forget your troubles later” Lilit is pulling a knife to kill some Germans or something (cuz that was the Plan or sumptin) and Bovril is just being his a-frikin-dorable self cuz hes cool like that and I am Seriously hoping this leads to an epic Deryn/Alek kisss!!!!!!!!
I think this picture is really just Deryn having a wierd dream. She probally got injured in battle, or something, and is half in a trance and half still in the battle.
I’m pretty sure the girl is Lilit because she is holding a dagger along with her flowers. (I hope I’m not the only one who remembers when she had her knife ready in Behemoth)
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yea can I just get book now cause I have read this whole page and I am more confused then before I read this…. PLEASE RELEASE THE BOOK TO US NOW!!
Also does anyone know where the Deryn and Alek realtionship is going cause um yea I want them to be <3!
I have to say, I really love the faceless, nameless soldiers being thrown off of Alek’s walker in the background.