Somewhere in a dark cavern beneath the fantasy genre, a dragon emerged—not to terrorize kingdoms or hoard gold, but to star in the Photoshop nightmare that is Revenge of Minzrye. If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you let a dungeon intern design a book cover during a power outage, behold your answer. This cover is what happens when “epic” ambition meets expired graphic design software and a total disregard for spatial coherence.
Let’s start with the dragon. Or should we say, The Floating Head of Fire-Breathing Doom. Perched awkwardly like a demonized bobblehead, it hovers midair without casting a shadow, blending, or obeying a single law of depth or perspective. Its red eyes glow like it’s been up all night playing video games, and the lighting on its snarl implies a lava lamp has been duct-taped inside its mouth. The rest of the cover? Blissfully unaware of its presence.
Below the Mighty Minzrye™, we find three heroic silhouettes bravely standing in a wasteland that looks suspiciously like a still from a low-budget fantasy MMORPG trailer. There’s a lava field that fades into smoke that morphs into a totally separate sky—the visual equivalent of “just keep blending until it goes away.” But it didn’t. It never went away. We see you, jagged transition layer.
And can we talk scale? If that dragon is really in the same plane as the adventurers, then they’re each about the size of its nostril. Either this is a kaiju crossover event, or someone resized the dragon PNG and thought, “Yeah, that’s close enough.”
Now on to the typography, which swings between half-baked epic and budget eBook. “MINZRYE” screams “insert made-up fantasy name here” with extra Zs for mystical flair. The inconsistent spacing makes it feel like it’s about to collapse under the weight of its own faux-drama. Meanwhile, the subtitle “NEW KELLENDRIA BOOK 2” has all the personality of a filing cabinet label—misaligned, generic, and glowing with the desperation of a last-minute addition.
And don’t miss the mysterious sunburst flaring through the clouds like the Eye of Sauron’s cousin trying to photobomb. Because what this cover needed was more lighting confusion.
In the end, Revenge of Minzrye isn’t just a book title—it’s a threat issued by the dragon for what was done to its dignity. If revenge truly is a dish best served cold, this cover delivers it with scorched pixels and zero remorse.