It's also a ripoff of the NBA playoffs marketing campaign that (TNT?) is doing.  They have players like Shaq/Kobe and Pierce/Bibby pictured exactly like that cover, doing the same speeches and stuff, but since Time's cover is more half-of-one-face and half-of-another, I think they're ripping the NBA folks off more.

...and isn't your cover just blatently ripping off Conan O'Brien's "If they mated" segments?

It's all kind of funny anyway.

To be fair, "There Can Only Be One" is a better line.  Also, half-Hillary/half-Barack is several orders of magnitude less creepy than the Hillarack creature.

uh, neither of you were the first to employ this gimmick.  The joke has been done before with numerous people in numerous magazines numerous times.

oh god not this thing again...I just threw up.

I recommend that everyone watch this to get that picture out of your mind:

www.youtube.com/watch

Yours is superior. It's certainly the cover that got passed around more for its coolness.

And while we're at it, I'd just like to note that the cover for the current issue -- "The Voices in Her Head" -- is also a real triumph. Props to your art director!

Does this mean they're going to have to duel it out with swords, Highlander-style?  And if so, anyone know who Connery's backing?

2008: Year of the T-Girl

The Time cover reminds me of Granny, after her stroke.

New marketing slogan:  The New Republic: now with tomorrow's Time Magazine cover graphics...TODAY!

Yard, you're awful.

that half of the picture of Hillary is truly frightening, like something out of a horror movie, the cold dead eye, the bleached white skin, the severe parched mouth. I have a title. "The Hill has an eye."

Maybe consider this a compliment?  That such a MSM publication would rip off an earlier TNR cover is evidence that TNR is out in front of such rags.  

Blackton.  All TNR photos of Hillary are unflattering. Take a look at this issue's cover.  Ridiculous, I think.  Confirms stereotypes.

"Confirms stereotypes"

Stereotypes of what?

tammya, I agree that that is a terrible picture of Hillary on the cover of TNR, and the same can be said with the "voices in her head" but that picture above is from Time Magazine, and it is truly frightening. I gotta wonder who took the full on picture because the lighting is horrendous. It is like a photographer flashed a photo of her suddenly.

Viriginia- women as "irrational and hysterical" and if you don't buy that, then Hillary as irrational and hysterical.  Both women and Hillary are much more than that most of the time.  

Blackton- the Time photo is gross.  I've seen better of Obama as well.  He's best when he's smiling.  They both are.  

vacentrist, it confirms the stereotypes that Hillary as undead, bloodsucking, hysterical vampriss. CONFIRMS them mind you, not just plays into them.

tammya, sorry about that last line, but I just had to have fun with your choice of word that it confirms stereotypes, when I know you meant they simply play into negative ones. repeat, just having some fun.

Yea, yea, yea, Blackton.  Today's a good day to tease me about my grammar, syntax, writing, whatever.  I'm at home tweaking my book.  

both covers are ugly as sin. stop it, people. also needing to stop: ads where one person starts the monologue, some other candyass picks it up, and on and on, one person morphing into the next. stop stop stop.

At the risk of turning this into a writer's-strike-era argument (between Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Conan O'Brien about who "made" Mike Huckabee, if you need reminding), I think the best TNR can claim here is that they stole it first:

ajax.livejournal.com/260828.html

Austinexpat, Wow! Dave Chapelle in whiteface.  I'm glad you found an excuse to post that link.  I will have nightmares tonight.