Still, it's always fairly easy to be mean, so of course I rose to the challenge and have decided to be needlessly nasty about a subject which brought joy to millions of 1980s children. This is investigative journalism at its finest.
Therefore, following the ten best that I chose yesterday, here are the ten Fighting Fantasy covers which I declare to be this: the worst.
I'll admit it; there's something compelling about the Sky Lord cover, something sort of innocent and sweet, from the failed attempt at foreshortening, to the bendy arms, ridiculous mouth, and custard-yellow sky. Still, however much I may want to hug the artist, it doesn't mean the picture's any good.
"Certainly - keep going straight down there, then turn right when you get to Jessops, and Sardath should be on your immediate left, just after Greggs."
"Many thanks."
"No problem."
"The wife's mother said to me... she said, 'When you're dead, I'll dance on your grave'. I said: 'Best of luck with that - I'm being cremated on Endor!' - Then I Force-choked her to death."