Well, you can't have 'Misadventure 1' without 'Misadventure 2'. That's not funny, that's jus cruel, to set up our expectations like that.I like #2 best, and I think frimble3 has a great point about series potential.
I prefer #2 above the others.
1) The title clearly expresses humor and matches the font while the Rescue ones don't.
2) The art matches. 1 and 3 look like you found some cliparts your liked and put them together. (1 especially. 3 is better.) Whether they are or not, a clip-art look is a turn-off for me.
Only issues I have with #2 are the fonts for the series title and the tagline. The tagline is too big/too close to the image. I prefer the Navy Seals Misadventures font from #3.
Hmm. I have a sort of liking for #1, just because the comic setup is there - the idiots are parachuting onto an alligator.
Otherwise, I like the simplicity of #2. The "What could go wrong?" line catches the eye.
#1 and #3 look very self published and quite unprofessional with the cut and pasted clip art. #2 far and away outshines them on a professional level. As to "funny enough". Funny books rarely have these hilarious covers that just make you want to roll on the floor in hysterics, usually they simply hint that the inside is the funny part. Yes sometimes you have a truly funny cover but those are rare. #2 works because you know that the story is irreverent, you know it's fiction, and you expect it to be a good time. You don't need anything more than that.
Thanks frimble. I already thought of the series implications of #2 being distinctive. I could envision the sequel covers. But I got a little panicky because people were saying I needed more humor in the cover. It's good to hear OOPS-A-NAVY shouts humor. I wonder if most people will get the pun, but I don't suppose that really matters, as long as the "oops" is there, they will know it's something silly.I like #2 for the simplicity of the cover. Not crazy about the grinning dolts diving into danger on the other two. The two orange silhouettes, going in opposite directions suggests humor, without the 'wacky' overtones of the others. Also, if this is going to be a series, it's a distinctive format. (For other volumes, 'orange silhouettes' swimming, sneaking, climbing, etc.)
The #1 cover is bad clip art -it's a toy-like alligator, floating (not in a watery way) over the background, and an out-of-scale palm tree, also floating. #3 has all the same faults, with different bits'n'pieces.
And I do like 'Oops-a-Navy' as a title. Even that title, in the same font as all the other entries in a list of books, shouts 'humour'. 'Rescue' or 'Navy Seal Rescue' belongs on some action-adventure list. I wouldn't pick them up looking for something funny to read.
2, for all the same reasons as before.
I like #2 best, and I think frimble3 has a great point about series potential.
Well, you can't have 'Misadventure 1' without 'Misadventure 2'. That's not funny, that's jus cruel, to set up our expectations like that.
Well, I like it. Also, in the intervening time, I looked up your other books on Amazon. Suspense/thriller novels? They have a decidedly different, 'realistic' look to them, and this cover, even if shelved/listed with your other books, is distinctive enough to clearly indicate that something different is coming.