Guessing But 100% sure Bluestars Prochecy is gonna be on here Edit: Vicky (One of the Erins) wanted to make Crookedstar’s jaw crooked, but Harper Collins declined Edit: I think that this is what Harper Collins was thinking Vicky: Hey! Here’s my Mapleshade’s Vengeance book! Full of murderer and revenge! Harper Collins: *_oH tHaTs FinE ;)_* Vicky: I got a cover for Crookedstar’s promise Harper Collins: *_Now this is a avengers level threat_*
"Yellowfang hissing at kits." "Cute Ravenpaw when he caught the snake." "The rats with glowing red eyes." I highly recommend not taking that out of context-
The new prophecy covers look like a cat found a phone but didn’t understand it and kept accidentally taking selfies when it was using the phone Wow guys thanks for the likes 😂 wasn’t expecting that lol
ik im a year late but.. the polish covers keep getting better, really. just look at przemijające echa (fading echoes) or all the books from power of three. these are my favorites to be honest.
Can we talk about how BEAUTIFUL the Squirrelflight's Hope cover is without the book jacket?? I love it so much Edit:holt CARO there are 77 likes on this what the heck thank you
Haha Im Polish and i read the english books because i live in an english speaking country now but I'm going to try get the Polish books just for the art after the whole quarantine thing :D
No niby to wydanie jest cudowne ale moim zdaniem powinni zabrać się za tłumaczenie kolejnych książek For people from outside Poland. Well, this edition is wonderful, but in my opinion they should start translating the next books
The Poland version is just so goregous! It’s incredible what effort they can put into books so many people are passionate about and enjoy so fondly! Thank you for letting us get to see them!
I like how the new The Last Hope cover kinda mimics the old one. It makes it recognizable to fans and draws people that haven’t read a Warriors book to it. It is maybe the best designed cover of the new ones.
@@Alcoholic.uncle. Similar situation but I don't have the first two books ack I'd buy the illustrated one but it wouldn't fit rest of those and uh :") If Nowa Baśń will make the whole first series new readers may be lucky tho xD
4:38 That's Sol? What about the markings on his face? Cuz I don't see any. Also, Sol has a more triangle shaped face. Please do better designing, authors
Did you know the Crookedstar cover was intentional? The cover art of Crookedstar's Promise originally had a accurate depiction of Crookedstar's crooked jaw, but Harper Collins felt it was not appealing to readers and changed the image so it did not show his crooked jaw. Also, with the new prophecy covers, they all share an expression except the Squirrelpaw ones. They all look so surprised, like "Why am I on a book cover?"
Me sorting my warrior books a few days ago: *sees the new long shadow cover* "why does Jayfeather have pupils?" *watches this* "Oh it's Ashfur...... I'm so smart."
6:15 Bluestar gets roasted, “And she should really use less eyeliner.” XD 7:03 new prophecy gets roasted, “But hey boring covers go with boring books.”
I feel that ONE on their own would've been fine. Each has a little redeeming bits, but together they suck. Midnight: Atmosphere and posing Moonrise: Expression and color palette Dawn: Subtle use of color Starlight: Linework and color usage (I haaate this cover though--is she holding her breath? Watching a tense sports match?) Twilight: nothing (This is a very baaaaaaaad cover. Wooden expression, an unappealing yellow mist, odd emphasis on the nose, I could go on) Sunset: everything works here I believe. Should've kept this and maybe Dawn.
The "the forgotten warrior's" cover was the best at telling what the book was about without giving anything away. in my opinion it's the best cover ever!
a part of me has too much nostalgia for the first firestars quest cover, in fact if it wasnt for firestar being weirdly chonky i wouldnt have seen the book so high up on my teachers shelf in school and asked to read it. lots of love for that book (i actually still have it, its a first edition and i treat it like gold)
The Polish books look amazing! They capture the art and intensity of the books in a way I never thought possible. I am ordering every one they have! Thanks Bright!!!
I'm polish but I bought the UK relase because I love those original retro covers from first and second arc, they always give me this strange nostalgia and chill. I really support Nowa Baśń thought, we waited so long for warriors to be relased in poland that even now when we arleady have 3 arcs it feels like dream come true x'D
I do like how in the new long shadows cover there is a glint of red and orange of the side of Ash’fur’s fur. Hunting at a fire kind of like the first page.
I was reading dawn of clans and skipped some books and started reading vision of shadows. But I'm still going to finish dawn of the clans. Then I might read all the special editions and then the new series.
I started the series when Vision of shadows ended and i am totally caught up now. But i could get the books faster bc they were like 6,99 euros or something. Thats the good thing about ereaders
The polish art is so jaw dropping, it just makes me so jealous. Whats happening with the english team- How can you suck the soul out of a cover, its how you can draw new readers attention to the book. I remember picking up Warriors only from seeing the cover of Fire and Ice, old verison.
When I was still a slow reader, and starting out in Into the Wild, i had seen the old Long Shadow’s cover in 3rd grade. I had heard about Sol, and knew he was “a tortoise-shell with white splotches” or what ever, (I am away from my The Prophecy Begins-Omen of the Stars books) and thought it was about Sol. When I read the book with the new cover, it never crossed my mind that it used to have Sol, because I knew that Ashfur was one of the antagonists in that book. But, giving the Erins the benefit of the doubt, maybe they wanted a twist. Unless you’re like me and just know a lot of spoilers, it could of tricked some people.
"Hey, remember that one pair of books where they basically copied the covers?" "Which pair?" Moonkitti: "YoU kNoW, fRoM dAwN oF tHe cLaNs.." (Inside joke.)
@@iulia5665 because each cat on each cover was a different cat so far and the cat on The Darkest Hour is a paler ginger than the cat on Into the Wild, and Sandstorm has green eyes like Firestar but is a paler ginger so I just assumed it was her
I'm in your community, my name is DoveClaw, this staff member named JayTicy has banned me, and abused his power before doing so, so please take action on this. ^^
Who else stared at their notification box for half an hour waiting for a good yet vir to pop up? Just me? *OK* Also may I mention that jay feather on the old eclipse has seeing eyes.... What's up with that.? He must be dreaming.
I personally love the new propechy books, I started reading warriors thanks to them And the covers of the books I had (the spanish version) are absolutely awesome! Maybe you should do some kind of video talking about the warriors covers from other languages :3 Love your videos Akira!
My personal favourite book cover is Yellowfang's Secret (without the dust jacket). I don't even really like the book, but the colours and artwork of this cover is just so pretty!
Yaaaasssssss I just found out what the name is and cover looks like for Broken Code book number 4! Not saying anything for the people who haven't seen it, but it is on the wiki! So excited!!
all of the new prophecy covers look like confused cats sniffing a camera and bluestars prophecy looks like yellow fang got a set of cool new blue contacts
When I was looking for my Thunder Rising book when rereading the series, I kept on finding River of Fire and thought it was Thunder Rising and kept getting annoyed
![Natanael Cano - Amor Eterno [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EO4prCs6WpM/mqdefault.jpg)
"Can I copy your homework?"
"Sure just change it up a bit so it doesn't look like you copied"
3:52
Underrated comment XD
@Fairy Fandoms,
Hah, LOL! Underrated comment!!
Lmao
Pure gold
Lolololololololololololol..........
2018: Making fun of warriors ocs
2019: Bad fan fictions
2020: *Bad book covers*
2021:
Bad books
Oh wait
We already know which ones those are
2021: Bad books- Wait no...
2021: Bad fans ( Spoiler alert each bluestar's propechy newest cover fans make 100% of the video)
Mija Brataljenović and maddyg 123 lol
Lol so true all he/she does is complain about their mistakes
Guessing
But 100% sure Bluestars Prochecy is gonna be on here
Edit: Vicky (One of the Erins) wanted to make Crookedstar’s jaw crooked, but Harper Collins declined
Edit:
I think that this is what Harper Collins was thinking
Vicky: Hey! Here’s my Mapleshade’s Vengeance book! Full of murderer and revenge!
Harper Collins: *_oH tHaTs FinE ;)_*
Vicky: I got a cover for Crookedstar’s promise
Harper Collins: *_Now this is a avengers level threat_*
It is lol
JuwulSpace '
Brooo I knew it xD
Bro Harper colins must be stupid-
Yeah...but why?
Dragon Burst
They said it was too “violent”
"Yellowfang hissing at kits."
"Cute Ravenpaw when he caught the snake."
"The rats with glowing red eyes."
I highly recommend not taking that out of context-
s n a k e ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Cute raven paw
@@davidgannonreal oh no
Some cat: B E R R I E S F O R T H E S N A K E!!!
R.I.P Honeyfern. You shall be missed by all.
@Wowie Zowie *BERRIES FOR THE SNAKE! BERRIES FOR THE SNAKE!*
Wow! The pictures in the Poland warrior cats books look like an option when they make the warriors movie!
Yeah! They look amazing!
Yep, i'm proud of my country uwu
just have to hope they dont mess the movie up....
Nah, can you imagine what pain it would be to animate in that style... Or at least they will simplify it
@Аврора Тищенко they could just keep the designs, not the style
Well, that’s what happens when Jayfeather doesn’t wear eclipse glasses to the solar eclipse....
*angry Jayfeather noises*
Thank you
How dare you insult my JAYBAE! *angry how dare you noises*
The new prophecy covers look like a cat found a phone but didn’t understand it and kept accidentally taking selfies when it was using the phone
Wow guys thanks for the likes 😂 wasn’t expecting that lol
Yeah exactly!
Thank you for making my day with this hilarious comment, I don't think I will ever stop laughing!
LMAO 😂
WarriorCatsDork lol true
WarriorCatsDork
*AHAHAHAHAH* omg I thought the same!!!!
Alternate title:
Getting mad you don't speak Polish
XxHollyDRAWSxX it’s even worst when your polish, don’t live in Poland and are just learning how to read polish lmao
I speak Polish. It's hard language. But, I love my Country.
ps, Our covers ARE BEAUTIFUL .
•Frenai• ClanOblivio no kiddddiiinngggggg they’re amazing! can’t wait to go visit!
@@borys161 I know they are amazing. I have their entire shelf.
•Frenai• ClanOblivio your so lucky I have none since I don’t love be in Poland, I live in Canada :,(
7:47:
If you look closely at the Ashfur’s back, you can see a bit of red or orange coloring on his fur. Maybe that’s a small peak of the fire?
Or its were the sun hit his fur
I THOUGHT THAT WAS HAWKFROST GFHNDTH
@@chloejwylie isn't hawk frost brown?
I think the sun reflected color onto him
Lol
When I saw the polish book my jaw dropped. Poland gets amazing, detailed, artwork and us gets.....
WArRIoR CaT EmOjIS
Yeah lol I hope we get that in english too
ik im a year late but.. the polish covers keep getting better, really. just look at przemijające echa (fading echoes) or all the books from power of three. these are my favorites to be honest.
wait...... what's warrior cat emoji?
@@suhotdog3135 ikr what is it-
WELL, GOSH DANG IT NOW I NEED WARRIOR EMOJIS
Can we talk about how BEAUTIFUL the Squirrelflight's Hope cover is without the book jacket?? I love it so much
Edit:holt CARO there are 77 likes on this what the heck thank you
Same here!
Ashbreeze Of Riverclan it is plain AMAZING
Yes I remember taking it off not knowing it was different and freaking out because it was so cool!
@@sagehamm Same!! I was so shocked and happy when I took it off
IKR ITS SO AMAZING!!!!!
Firestar on his SE is SO CHONKY
C H O N K
lol
He looks like he’s still a kittypet
ikr
HELLO DAKO!!!!!!!
Hey mom pack up your stuff we’re moving to Poland.
When you live in poland but read warriors in english XDDD
Lol
You can live with me, just bring all the warrior cats books because there are not many of them in Poland
yeah, at the moment in Poland we have 2 first series translated, 3 super editions and like 4 mangas
Soon The Power Of Three will come out
"In comparison, this Bluestar is trash. And she should also use less eyeliner."
Lol
-Akira 2020
I could not agree more lol
"boring covers fit for boring books"
me: DonT GudGe A bOok bY itS CovEr
“Gudge”
Truee
She already read them sooo
Judge*
ah yes, never *gudge* a book by its cover 😪
me: these covers arent really bad
Akira: Bad.
me: Bad.
underrated comment 😭
fr
Better title:
Akira makes you feel bad for speaking English
ur pfp is interesting my dude
@Lilith Pitts make that 74
Haha Im Polish and i read the english books because i live in an english speaking country now but I'm going to try get the Polish books just for the art after the whole quarantine thing :D
yay I don't speak English :D
though the Taiwan ones aren't better either......
Dude, I'm ON TIME.
2019: Making fun of OCs.
2020: Making fun of book art.
2021: Making fun of bad fan fics?
Nah well be making fun of bad writing next
We were making bad fanfics back then here 😂
I’m from the future, and yeah basically
People who make the book covers: oops dumped a bucket of paint on that
O o p
aNd I oOp
Crowfeather’s Trial was cooler without the “protecter” on.
Yeah
Same with Squirrelflight’s Hope
The new New Prophecy covers in a nutshell:
*In Ed's voice* EXTREME CLOSE UP!
Hewwo
That polish book looks
AmAzInG
All of the polish covers are absolutely beautiful smh
ty man
Mistleleaf
Just being honest
Sunset and Yellowfang's Secret is the best
5:27
He be lookin mighty thicc 👀
He looks pregant
@@larniehopkins7916 XD
@@larniehopkins7916 *pregannanant*
Does leafpool is pregagagagant?
Plot Twist: The New Prophecy cats were all trying to take selfies but FAILED!! WHO'S ON WITH ME?!
WE RIDE AT DAWN
The new Long Shadows has Orange on the back of Ashfur’s neck, so it kinda does include the fire.
“Completely rushed and uninspired”
So, just like New Prophecy
Bean Turtle 😂😂 I feel like one of the few who loves New Prophecy
@@Sophie_AFC same haha The New Prophecy is actually one of my favorites
WAIT
Sophie MacKay I was okay with it, I just felt like it didn’t add much
Feathertail's death, one of the coolest and most original: *Okay. I'm fine. Okay.*
I stopped breathing out of excitement when the old version of Long Shadows got first.
I soooo agree
I don't have headphones and I'm at my birthday party but when I saw Polish Into the Wild I was shocked
(yEa I'm fRoM pOlaNd)
No niby to wydanie jest cudowne ale moim zdaniem powinni zabrać się za tłumaczenie kolejnych książek
For people from outside Poland. Well, this edition is wonderful, but in my opinion they should start translating the next books
@@maple_agony Zgadzam się z tobą w 100%
I thought that the Darkest Hour was Firestar fading out of existence. 😅
me too.
I thought it was a cat looking in it's water reflection
SAME LOL
People in my grade would see the book I was reading and there was visible confusion.
I thought it was Sandstorm lmao
The Poland version is just so goregous! It’s incredible what effort they can put into books so many people are passionate about and enjoy so fondly! Thank you for letting us get to see them!
For the Long Shadows new cover, there is a hint of fire. On the left of Ashfur's neck area, there's a orange glow.
6:34 When you give a Warrior a phone
FRR
Bramblestar’s storm cover looks like hes a kit
I thought the same
I like how the new The Last Hope cover kinda mimics the old one. It makes it recognizable to fans and draws people that haven’t read a Warriors book to it. It is maybe the best designed cover of the new ones.
I LOVE THE POLISH WARRIORS BOOKS WITH THE PICTURES!!! I NEED ONE!!!!!!
But could you speak it?
@@somebodyig624 wait i thought u died
@@thatboyjackk I'm talking to you from heaven. How is America doing?
@@somebodyig624 its doing good. donald trump was impeached.
@@thatboyjackk That's good. If you ever see Donald trump tell him that all the previous presidents hate him.
5:54 bluestar in the new one looks like grumpy cat 😂😂😂
How do you feel about the cover to “The First Battle?” In Dawn of the Clans, could you maybe do a video of the best book covers?
Firestar secretly pulled a Cloudpaw and loaded up on McDonald’s cheeseburgers before Firestar’s Quest.
Wait i've never seen the the polish books with illustrations in it-
Welp.
Because they usually don't-
For now Nowa Baśń has released only Into the Wild with illustrations ;w;
@@lightblubble but like i have the older books
@@Alcoholic.uncle. Similar situation but I don't have the first two books ack
I'd buy the illustrated one but it wouldn't fit rest of those and uh :")
If Nowa Baśń will make the whole first series new readers may be lucky tho xD
3:40 the crookedstar on the right is actually terrifying
5:42 If Bluestar and Yellowfang had a kit-
Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought The New Prophecy was boring.
5:36 ngl, Firestars looking a little chunky there
5:27 “You see kits, this is what happens when you eat too much kittypet food”
The new New Prophecy covers look like the cats were just introduced to Snapchat
Can you make a video of the BEST warrior cat covers?
4:38 That's Sol? What about the markings on his face? Cuz I don't see any. Also, Sol has a more triangle shaped face. Please do better designing, authors
Did you know the Crookedstar cover was intentional? The cover art of Crookedstar's Promise originally had a accurate depiction of Crookedstar's crooked jaw, but Harper Collins felt it was not appealing to readers and changed the image so it did not show his crooked jaw. Also, with the new prophecy covers, they all share an expression except the Squirrelpaw ones. They all look so surprised, like "Why am I on a book cover?"
Me sorting my warrior books a few days ago: *sees the new long shadow cover* "why does Jayfeather have pupils?"
*watches this* "Oh it's Ashfur...... I'm so smart."
6:15 Bluestar gets roasted, “And she should really use less eyeliner.” XD
7:03 new prophecy gets roasted, “But hey boring covers go with boring books.”
The only reason I like the close up ones
It’s so people can see their beautiful eyes in more detail and everything in more detail
I feel that ONE on their own would've been fine. Each has a little redeeming bits, but together they suck.
Midnight: Atmosphere and posing
Moonrise: Expression and color palette
Dawn: Subtle use of color
Starlight: Linework and color usage (I haaate this cover though--is she holding her breath? Watching a tense sports match?)
Twilight: nothing (This is a very baaaaaaaad cover. Wooden expression, an unappealing yellow mist, odd emphasis on the nose, I could go on)
Sunset: everything works here I believe. Should've kept this and maybe Dawn.
6:56 The new Sign of the Moon cover is *gorgeous.* Probably one of my favorites.
The "the forgotten warrior's" cover was the best at telling what the book was about without giving anything away. in my opinion it's the best cover ever!
a part of me has too much nostalgia for the first firestars quest cover, in fact if it wasnt for firestar being weirdly chonky i wouldnt have seen the book so high up on my teachers shelf in school and asked to read it. lots of love for that book (i actually still have it, its a first edition and i treat it like gold)
The Polish books look amazing! They capture the art and intensity of the books in a way I never thought possible. I am ordering every one they have! Thanks Bright!!!
The firestar on the darkest hour looks like sandstorm
I'm polish but I bought the UK relase because I love those original retro covers from first and second arc, they always give me this strange nostalgia and chill. I really support Nowa Baśń thought, we waited so long for warriors to be relased in poland that even now when we arleady have 3 arcs it feels like dream come true x'D
I do like how in the new long shadows cover there is a glint of red and orange of the side of Ash’fur’s fur. Hunting at a fire kind of like the first page.
Hello
Someone from Poland? 😉
0:11 I would love this book, but it's too expensive 😢
The Poland books look beautiful!! I would love to by them all just for the pictures!!
I REALLY need to catch up on the books but I am way behind I don’t think I would be able to catch up
I was reading dawn of clans and skipped some books and started reading vision of shadows. But I'm still going to finish dawn of the clans. Then I might read all the special editions and then the new series.
I started the series when Vision of shadows ended and i am totally caught up now. But i could get the books faster bc they were like 6,99 euros or something. Thats the good thing about ereaders
the Darkest hour book cover is so bad, i even thought it was only a blurred image of Firestar.
“Yellowfang hissing at kits..”
XDDD
The polish art is so jaw dropping, it just makes me so jealous. Whats happening with the english team-
How can you suck the soul out of a cover, its how you can draw new readers attention to the book. I remember picking up Warriors only from seeing the cover of Fire and Ice, old verison.
Who's excited for Graystripe's Vow Super Edition
Oof
When I was still a slow reader, and starting out in Into the Wild, i had seen the old Long Shadow’s cover in 3rd grade. I had heard about Sol, and knew he was “a tortoise-shell with white splotches” or what ever, (I am away from my The Prophecy Begins-Omen of the Stars books) and thought it was about Sol. When I read the book with the new cover, it never crossed my mind that it used to have Sol, because I knew that Ashfur was one of the antagonists in that book.
But, giving the Erins the benefit of the doubt, maybe they wanted a twist. Unless you’re like me and just know a lot of spoilers, it could of tricked some people.
"Hey, remember that one pair of books where they basically copied the covers?"
"Which pair?"
Moonkitti: "YoU kNoW, fRoM dAwN oF tHe cLaNs.."
(Inside joke.)
“It’s okay if they don’t want to turn Bluestar into a blueberry” Best sentence I’ve ever heard
you should review the covers of all the languages tbh. like the russain or European once
5:08 Me and my friend thinks that it's actually Sandstorms reflection as they actually do get kits in the end of the book.
2:09 also bramblestar looks like a kit-
In Crookedstars promise they didnt give him his crooked jaw because the illustrator wanted him to look majestic
MY TOP 5 WORST
5: The last hope (old ver)
4: Fire and Ice ( old ver)
3: The Darkest Hour (old)
2. Long shadows (Old)
1. A DANGEROUS PATH (old)
I thought the cat on the cover of the new "Darkest Hour" was Sandstorm?
B-but how
@@iulia5665 because each cat on each cover was a different cat so far and the cat on The Darkest Hour is a paler ginger than the cat on Into the Wild, and Sandstorm has green eyes like Firestar but is a paler ginger so I just assumed it was her
"But hey, boring covers are a good match for boring books."
- Bright Guardian Akira 2020
7:43
The Ashfur cover does have some fire on the side and it does not spoil the book.
As a Polish person I can only say:
The Power Of Poland ❤💙💚💛💜💕
(My brain)
THE POWER OF TWOOOOOO ✌️✌️✌️✌️
Akira: "And the sunset is so great."
Me: ERAPELY " THE BOOK LITERLY SAYS THAT ITS A SUNRISE IN THE END."
2:58 Wait that was FIRESTAR???
Yeah 🤨🤨🤨
My rat just tapped on this video on my phone. He likes Bright Guardian Akira, too! 🤣
Snowkit be like: 4:11
bro woke up and chose violence 😭
The new Dawn of the Clans covers look great!
Especially The Sun Trail, it's beautiful
I can’t tell if this is the best or worst reason to learn Polish. just to buy and read these books XD
6:00
Wait- are you telling me that isn’t a blueish yellowfang?
*anime gasp*
I’ve always loved the old covers and the new one look a bit generic
I'm in your community, my name is DoveClaw, this staff member named JayTicy has banned me, and abused his power before doing so, so please take action on this. ^^
Who else stared at their notification box for half an hour waiting for a good yet vir to pop up?
Just me?
*OK*
Also may I mention that jay feather on the old eclipse has seeing eyes.... What's up with that.? He must be dreaming.
Meowing Cookie
Yeah... I think it’s just u 🐨😆
Maybe it was a mistake?
I love your background music being next to fall!
I wish the spanish version would use the poland version instead the germany covers.
4:48 Firestar looks like his mate, Sandstorm on the new cover lol ( I actually thought it was Sandstorm when I first saw it until I looked it up lol )
1:14 bruh this looks like someone tried to do a vlog but failed miserably and still posted it
Fr they been looking like that in tnp 💀
I personally love the new propechy books, I started reading warriors thanks to them
And the covers of the books I had (the spanish version) are absolutely awesome!
Maybe you should do some kind of video talking about the warriors covers from other languages :3
Love your videos Akira!
My personal favourite book cover is Yellowfang's Secret (without the dust jacket). I don't even really like the book, but the colours and artwork of this cover is just so pretty!
*sees Fire star*
Me: That is the biggest Cheeto puff I ever saw in my life XD
Yaaaasssssss I just found out what the name is and cover looks like for Broken Code book number 4! Not saying anything for the people who haven't seen it, but it is on the wiki! So excited!!
Honestly no matter what anybody says I will always love ALL the new covers, They're so pretty wtf
all of the new prophecy covers look like confused cats sniffing a camera and bluestars prophecy looks like yellow fang got a set of cool new blue contacts
Lol no offense to warrior cats but why does the new rising storm cover look like a 40 yr old mans Facebook profile picture
When I was looking for my Thunder Rising book when rereading the series, I kept on finding River of Fire and thought it was Thunder Rising and kept getting annoyed
1:52 ReAlLy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7:44 But... Ashfur at the new Long Shadows cover has that red glow on his fur, so is it possible that the fire is behind him...?