Dec 12
Click for full image Colette’s Art Direction: I want a colony of giant lavender termites- all with the same goofy facial expression- dragging an extremely khaki couple into their underground nest. Try and make the tunnel seem as reminiscent of a human colon as possible, as subtle subliminal foreshadowing of where a large purple ovipositor may soon find itself.
Published 1980
(Average: 8.86 out of 10)
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December 12th, 2011 at 9:05 am
Human colon, eh? I thought it was Irwin Allen’s TIME TUNNEL.
Formigans sound ever so slightly Irish. If those critters are on the cover are Formigans, I think I like them!
Is this the first recorded instance of crowd surfing?
December 12th, 2011 at 9:26 am
PLANET OF THE SHMOO
By Al Capp
December 12th, 2011 at 9:27 am
“Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to Earth we go…[whistle] Hi-ho, hi-ho!”
December 12th, 2011 at 9:58 am
That grotto looks grotty. Did the Formigans invent Formica?
December 12th, 2011 at 10:50 am
If the intent was to make the Formigans seem creepy, it failed. They’re *cute*. The Nac Mac Feegle are much scarier-looking (as well as doing the crowd-surf thing to entire herds of cattle at once).
December 12th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
On seeing this cover I would immediately assume: children’s book.
On another note, some classic white-washing appears to have been going on here. The male protagonist is black, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from the cover.
December 12th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
@Jaouad: I dunno, they didn’t have any problem putting purple people on the cover!
December 12th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
On a side note: Thank God these little critters are not Hobbits! Because if they were, the comments would quickly degenerate into terminal fan-w***king.
December 13th, 2011 at 1:31 am
haha, I didn’t laugh until I read the caption — termites, haha… colon…
December 13th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
And I thought I had trouble getting to Solla Sollew.
December 14th, 2011 at 12:27 am
@drlemaster: Tea spit take. Solla Sollew!
December 15th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
All the little Formigans seem to be smiling except for the ones carrying the woman. I wonder why those ones are so upset….I suppose it’s possible that, out of nervousness, the woman released a little pent-up gas?
January 6th, 2012 at 12:40 am
I thought this cover looked pretty cool when I was a kid, but not cool enough to get me to pick up the book and read it.