“Look, I told you not to attach the rainbow-thingy to my hat, which you just had to do. I was saving it for a special occasion!
And if that wasn’t enough, you had to stick your head in and get stuck.
Don’t you blame me for this! It’s not my fault you had to do that while naked. I’m now late for work, you know, thanks to you! It’s going to be damn embarrassing at the office in front of everyone.
AND WILL YOU STOP WITH THE HOPPING! Can’t you simply walk like normal people?”
Fish-Dance-Air-Piano Man tries a new look http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=6287 Did 70s paperback designers go through the whole Muybridge photo-album looking for amusing poses to collage with the wrong heads?
Obviously the business gent is the one who has just jumped out of naked man and is now trying to be very nonchalant about the whole matter. Because that naked man is WAY too large to be jumping into Archibald Frumpwallow.
Well, I blame the Temporal Highway Department for this tragic accident. That signage is just confusing. (And I think they need a “give way to time travellers on the roundabout” notice too.)
Seems straightforward enough: naked headless time hopper hops over the rainbow into office drone’s head, time’s arrow goes briskly back and forth, and everyone ends up at Ground Zero at the finish.
crackling suspense – is that like pork rinds action?
@Tat Wood: eventually, someone will go over Mount Everest on a pogo stick.
Who’s to say that City Man isn’t Naked Man’s hat instead?
@Bruce: it does look to me like Naked Man jumps into businessman’s head instead. Perhaps a sad tale of a hippie nudist who in later years sells out and goes into finance. Wavy Gravy was very disappointed with him.
Maybe “crackling suspense” refers to businessman’s suspenders having really old elastic which doesn’t stretch so well and is all dry and crackly, and the suspense is “will his suspenders stop holding up his trousers?” Which, in turn, would make him partially not-clad again, reversing time’s arrow and all that.
@Tat: I double-checked the date on that article to make sure it wasn’t posted on April 1st. I recall falling off those a lot as a child so I’m not surprised he got injured, just that it wasn’t a broken bone or worse.
Naked dude’s anatomy is out of whack, his legs are too long and too muscular for his torso. Maybe the artist wanted to give the impression he’s being sucked into the rainbow and is being foreshortened and stretched out, black hole-style, but the perspective is all wrong.
April 20th, 2015 at 11:24 am
“Look, I told you not to attach the rainbow-thingy to my hat, which you just had to do. I was saving it for a special occasion!
And if that wasn’t enough, you had to stick your head in and get stuck.
Don’t you blame me for this! It’s not my fault you had to do that while naked. I’m now late for work, you know, thanks to you! It’s going to be damn embarrassing at the office in front of everyone.
AND WILL YOU STOP WITH THE HOPPING! Can’t you simply walk like normal people?”
What sort of pocket watch goes from 11 to 22?
April 20th, 2015 at 11:30 am
Now, Zippy, that wasn’t very nice, was it?
April 20th, 2015 at 11:32 am
The first edition’s art was simple, classy. Then the art department decided to give it a little zip.
Apart from his hat, that’s the stuffiest-looking city gent I’ve seen on GSS.
April 20th, 2015 at 1:17 pm
“Just stand still sir; this might hurt a bit.”
April 20th, 2015 at 1:33 pm
Oh man, those watches with the roman numeral faces are the WORST.
April 20th, 2015 at 2:18 pm
‘Cracking suspense, Gromit!’
^o^
April 20th, 2015 at 2:49 pm
Where is Heimdall?
April 20th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
Ever get that feeling you’re being followed?
April 20th, 2015 at 4:28 pm
Fish-Dance-Air-Piano Man tries a new look http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=6287 Did 70s paperback designers go through the whole Muybridge photo-album looking for amusing poses to collage with the wrong heads?
April 20th, 2015 at 5:14 pm
Obviously the business gent is the one who has just jumped out of naked man and is now trying to be very nonchalant about the whole matter. Because that naked man is WAY too large to be jumping into Archibald Frumpwallow.
April 24th, 2015 at 9:39 pm
THE PILL POPPERS
August 6th, 2021 at 7:44 pm
Well, I blame the Temporal Highway Department for this tragic accident. That signage is just confusing. (And I think they need a “give way to time travellers on the roundabout” notice too.)
August 6th, 2021 at 7:47 pm
The GSS paradox. If I go back in time and kill the artist, will I forget this cover?
August 6th, 2021 at 11:44 pm
At last, something less sensible than a Space Hopper https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/14/i-crossed-alps-on-a-space-hopper-experience
August 7th, 2021 at 1:15 am
Seems straightforward enough: naked headless time hopper hops over the rainbow into office drone’s head, time’s arrow goes briskly back and forth, and everyone ends up at Ground Zero at the finish.
crackling suspense – is that like pork rinds action?
@Tat Wood: eventually, someone will go over Mount Everest on a pogo stick.
August 7th, 2021 at 3:18 am
Who’s to say that City Man isn’t Naked Man’s hat instead?
@Bruce: it does look to me like Naked Man jumps into businessman’s head instead. Perhaps a sad tale of a hippie nudist who in later years sells out and goes into finance. Wavy Gravy was very disappointed with him.
Maybe “crackling suspense” refers to businessman’s suspenders having really old elastic which doesn’t stretch so well and is all dry and crackly, and the suspense is “will his suspenders stop holding up his trousers?” Which, in turn, would make him partially not-clad again, reversing time’s arrow and all that.
@Tat: I double-checked the date on that article to make sure it wasn’t posted on April 1st. I recall falling off those a lot as a child so I’m not surprised he got injured, just that it wasn’t a broken bone or worse.
August 7th, 2021 at 6:26 am
Forgot the “starkers” tag.
Naked dude’s anatomy is out of whack, his legs are too long and too muscular for his torso. Maybe the artist wanted to give the impression he’s being sucked into the rainbow and is being foreshortened and stretched out, black hole-style, but the perspective is all wrong.
August 8th, 2021 at 3:15 am
@Tracy: Except Tat Wood noticed this seems to be a stock pose, likely from here:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-muybridge-jumping-56720781.html
which…
doesn’t really clear it up at all.
August 8th, 2021 at 11:20 pm
The latest Olympic sports are getting a bit silly.