Is it just me, or does anyone else prefer the older Blaze covers?

Here’s an older one:

And the new style:

The picture on the cover is fine, but the cover itself is so linear. Plus, while I’m fine with white space (or red space, as the case may be, since this is a Blaze cover), there’s an awful lot of it here. I’d like to see the picture take up more of the cover.

So what’s your opinion? Which style of cover do you prefer and why?