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Click for full imageE Comments: The giant soda can in the background is the clincher.
Published 1989
(Average: 8.03 out of 10)
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E Comments: The giant soda can in the background is the clincher.
Published 1989
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May 3rd, 2011 at 9:57 am
In slaying the beardy blue giant, Jason accidentally stabs a huge butterfly, skewering it to the side of a giant reptile. With a checkerboard pattern. On. His. Underside? WTF?
Meanwhile, the cheery wizard pretends to dance with castinets, two lovely ladies pose for the artist, and everything, but EVERYTHING turns out to be smaller than a can of fizzy pop.
This cover has everything.
Wait a minute. No, this just won’t do. The artist forgot to add a TING! to that sword!
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:27 am
No Ting! A shame really, it’s almost perfect!
For some reason I can’t stop staring at the blue giants nipple.
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:29 am
“Ape Na’vi shall not kill Ape Na’vi. For it is Ape Law!”
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:30 am
“Bin Laden was taken by surprise during one of his costume parties…”
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:41 am
“And that, my friends, is how you deal with The Blue Man Group.”
May 3rd, 2011 at 11:23 am
I have to agree with the cover-blurb writer that of all the words in the English language the one to best capture this scene is; ‘rollocking’. It is rollocking. It rollocks to a quite extraordinary degree.
May 3rd, 2011 at 1:26 pm
One grand visual non sequitur.
May 3rd, 2011 at 2:32 pm
On this episode of Ax Men…
May 3rd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
The straw in the giant soda can in the background is the clincher.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Apparently all this carnage happened while our hero was trying to kill a butterfly.
May 3rd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Yes. The West wins over all of those other weird cultures again.
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:07 pm
The ax guy is just faking. Obviously the monsters drank a can of Dr. Pepper.
May 3rd, 2011 at 11:48 pm
I actually read this book, it was a parody of the pulp fantasy genre and was pretty funny (to my twenty-ish self). The only thing I remember from it was a part where the hero had to face a fearsome test to prove himself and ended up at a desk with a multiple-choice quiz and a #2 pencil.
May 4th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Or Paul Bunyan Slays, Err.. Everything! With Magic! Product Placement! And Girls, Girls, Girls!
May 4th, 2011 at 4:34 am
“Avatar” meets “Dragon Tales”
May 4th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Can a humble janitor, mistaken for the safety inspector, save the high school from a fatal collapse of the gym roof?
JASON KAPUTNIK
May 4th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I actually thought that was Max Rebo at first. And I thought “awesome.”
May 14th, 2011 at 4:48 am
As the author of this dubious novel, it was all I could do to get through your comments … from laughing so hard! I think I sprained a neck muscle, actually. Loved Phil’s summation!
Pretty much every character depicted here IS in the book, though this scene isn’t. (And you’ve all completely overlooked the giant red toad the wizard is standing on. In fairness, I never noticed that myself until 2008.) I have to say, when my publisher first sent me a proof of this cover way back when, I was a bit nonplussed by the “still life with corpses” approach (and the fact that the giant blue guy isn’t blue in the book. Perhaps rigor mortis setting in?) but it has grown on me. In fact, I hired Mr. Hescox to paint a cover for my revised version of this book, Hero Wanted, and a forthcoming sequel, Noble Cause. Whether those covers will make it to your gallery of scorn remains to be seen. Thanks for making me laugh my head off! -dm
May 20th, 2011 at 9:40 am
Welcome aboard Dan!
Good to see you’ve picked up on the good natured humour side of the site!
We did miss the Toad! That thing has teeth too! Congratulations on having cover that basically has all of the Good Show Sir requirements!
June 22nd, 2011 at 3:45 am
Pity they’re not catgirls… They’d be dead spits for the Puma Twins