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Click for full imageE Comments: According to my husband, his dog chewed up the cover of this book. I think the dog was making a statement. Like why the hell are those people sitting in a hollowed-out asteroid?
Published 1984
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June 14th, 2011 at 9:18 am
Hollowed-out asteroid… or is it a giant ball in the 1984 intergalactic baseball championships for dead souls, angels versus demons? Here we see massive catchers mitts made out of meteors and moon bases after all…
June 14th, 2011 at 11:20 am
Famed graffiti artist Rowena managed to “tag” the asteroid on the left.
June 14th, 2011 at 11:21 am
There’s a delicate balance a fantasy cover artist has to uphold, teetering between the sublime and the ridiculous…
…or you can just leap into the abyss of the ridiculous straight away.
June 14th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
In the sport of flaming daemon bowling it’s widely know the best balls have a human centre.
June 14th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
I’ve got this in a much less bogus cover and it is actually a good read! This cover screams – actually, it just screams.
June 14th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Subtlety is to fantasy book covers what subtlety is to Jim Carrey.
June 14th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Evidence of trying FAR too hard to learn why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
June 14th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
That flaming yellow winged red-eyed pointy eared fanged beclawed unicorn horned demon with hairy cloven feet just isn’t menacing looking. Maybe give it an earring?
June 14th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
The poor dog probably took one bite and spat this one right out.
@Fred, you are so right about the earring. The fear factor is increased exponentially. But am I the only person who thinks that the demon is wearing a Jawa on his left arm?
June 14th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
If the flying saucer in Asteroids wins you 500 points, imagine how much the nudist demon will get you.
June 14th, 2011 at 10:09 pm
I can’t sleep until I know the complete blurb that the dog ate… what was it?? Could it be:
- “Beyond mastery of the five magical farts lay…”
- “Beyond mastery of the five magical facts of life…”
- “Beyond mastery of the five magical copy editors…”
June 14th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
@Jane, if it had a flaming sword I’d say it was a Headless Monk. But it’s probably just a generic Popeil(TM) Pocket Wizard. The never ending series – Beyond mastery of the six magics lay the SECRET OF THE SEVENTH MAGIC.
June 15th, 2011 at 4:42 am
That’s a Jawa handpuppet that the demon with the physics-defying flames uses in his ventriloquist act.
What I’m really puzzled about is the fishbowl? bubble? magic sphere of magicking? that the two humans and freaky naked dwarf are crammed into. How many minutes of air do you think, they have left?
June 20th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
WOMAN- Honey, there’s a large monster outside our hollowed out ball!
MAN- Dang it, woman! There’s a smaller thing trapped in our hollowed out ball with us! Be more concerned with that!
June 21st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I think the large yellow chap is the maitre d’, bringing the couple the bat souffle. Unaware that his nephew is capering around their table, ruining the evening.
June 30th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
I think the little demon inside told the man inside that the big demon outside was saying stuff about his mother, so the man made some terrible remarks to the demon outside about his own mother. Then, enraged, the demon was going to walk over and give the man a thorough throttling. But his friend (the little floating Death-wanna-be) is trying to hold him back, saying “forget it man, he’s not worth it…”