Weird Book Cover: Slocum's Rage

Yes, I know what your thinking. Your thinking, "I need to clean off my computer screen because that outragious book title made me spray __(Drink of choice)___ out of my nose."

Oh Jake Logan...

So, Jake Logan, because its the biggest set of words on the cover. Jake Logan is a pen name for a bunch of other western authors who write in the Slocum series which follow the adventures of John Slocum over 400 published novels. 

Yes, your heard me. Slocum. Slocum.

BUT WE'RE NOT HERE TO DISCUSS THE TITLE.

We're here to discuss the cover. Westerns, in general have some cheesy covers. I've seen improvements in the Compton series, and generally, Louis L'Amour has never been to far from superb with his cover choice. But them old series, well... Lets start with the most obvious here, the harlot with her boobs out. And I don't mean the lady in yellow, though we will get to her.

Red plaid shirt aside the thing I cannot take my eyes off the most is the chest. No, no, not the hcest hair, the grizzled face, or the depiction just bellow his nips of the fight he's clearly going to win at the end of the novel (thanks for the spoiler btw), but as I stare at it (not with an desire what so ever), I want to know how he got the scratches. Really think about this. It can't be from a manly mountain lion or bear. That would be a vertical scratch. It can't be from the buxom blonde, because her claw marks would also be vertical and all over his shoulders, if the picture is to imply anything. My conclusion is that he must have been running through a raspberry patch with his shirt open. I would be rage-y to if that had happened to me.

Outside of the scars on his chest, what makes his a weird book cover is actually the dynamics of the blond and the weapons Slocum is firing off. They [the rifle and the cold] are both from the 1870 to 90s, give or take. The make up, dress and t-shirt esque cloth draped across her ill concealed boobage, which was inappropriate for the time.

All in all, its a ridiculous Western Cover, campy and so far over the top its moving very fast towards the bottom of the other side. Mind you it does fit the title. I mean he looks pretty mad. One might say he's enraged, but its a cover I picked up and laughed at.
In all, it is the male equivilent to its larger and far more invasive cousin. The section of long flowing hair, rippling muscles, and dresses made of rice paper, that looms in every used book shop.

But that's next time.

Weird: 4
Awesome: 2
Unique: 2
Cheesy: 5
Fitting to the Book: 5