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A mashup of the Aeneid and the Wizard of Oz.

Super good.

capedcrusader514 wrote:Super good.

Haha, I love the Greek soldiers hiding behind their book. Very clever idea and nice execution, GMV.

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Very clever concept. Inter-novel invasion!

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They won't let that into Oz, no way no how. It's a horse of the same exact color.

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Awesome, I was thinking along something like this too but changed it a bit to my current entry. Once again a masterpiece

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Dude I just realized that you have the title and author on the Oz book and they stated that they wanted no titles or else it's gonna get rejected. Better change it out and resub pronto!

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Nice concept, the text on the horse and the soldiers is great.

tjost wrote:Dude I just realized that you have the title and author on the Oz book and they stated that they wanted no titles or else it's gonna get rejected. Better change it out and resub pronto!

Well the author is on there, but there's no other letters on the spine, just fragmented bits of lines of curves. Your brain must be filling in the rest.

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Great work as usual, tgentry! I really like the concept. I'm not sure I could pull it off as a well endowed female, but I definitely appreciate the idea

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I love this shirt. It's a great use of the derby theme, and I think could be worn around non-wooters without having to constantly explain it, and that's a big plus.

Great job!

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This is a wonderful submission! And I love it on brown . I this is one I will get to buy in the near future!

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the perspective of the type on the horse and the shading is amazing. great entry Tgentry

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wow! i want!

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Smacks of delicious quality, as always.

marzipanapple wrote:Smacks of delicious quality, as always.

Tasty delicious quality!

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This is wonderfully nice TGentry.

But I feel bad... I am not a child of literature, so half of the great entries here are lost on me ^^;. I wish I was smerter.

Excellent work, as always.

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Thanks for the comments! Click for a large version:

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How do you do it? Wowza.SOOOOO good!

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Freakin' A, and even the Aenid shows where the pages were pulled out. #1!

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I spent a whole year in school translating the Aenied from Latin. Want this!!!

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Really imaginative sir. And the shading and colors look awesome!

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Wow, this came out of nowhere. Very cool.

I wish I loved the colors more, it seems like the six color rule hurt your design a bit, but the illustration itself is flat out amazing.

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I love the heads of the Achaeans peeping over their book

So, it was Dorothy's face that launched a thousand ships? That caused untold woe to visit the mothers of Greece and the blood of Greece's finest to be spilled on foreign shores?

Remember always the deaths of Ajax, Patroclus, Achilles, and all the slain soldier of Greece. Even though she hailed from the other side of the globe, a slight to Greece could not be ignored. She left the groves of olives for a straw filled weakling of a man.

These men died defending the honor of Greece, honor their memory.

very nice

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Awesome work, love the details on the book covers!

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haha!

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Fogged, way to go.

You know I just watched the Wizard of Oz movie a month or two ago after having not seen it for years and years. First off, it was a lot funnier than I remember it. But maybe I'm older now and I get the jokes, especially all the ones about how the Wizard is a fraud (after all the lying and grandstanding he can't even operate his own balloon, lol). But I also noticed that the guy who plays the Wizard also plays that doorman, and the guy who drives the horse carriage, and the guy with the scepter who comes out to tell them all to go home.

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Excellent as always.

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really nice!

I didn't realize how good this one was. The thumbnail gave me a different impression. But whatever, gmv now.

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I really love how subtle, and yet how wonderfully clever this is. Very nice art too!

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Nice illustration and clever concept, but (as someone else has commented) it seems having two books right over your nipples is a bit odd.

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I like this!! Very well done. I want one!!

AWWW 4th?? Post to let us know if this is going to get printed elsewhere!!!