Lucky this wasn’t a series: if Robert Lynn Asprin’s discovery that ‘Myth’ sounds a bit like ‘Mis-‘ is any precedent the second-hand shops of the English-speaking world would have been swamped with books where the similarity between ‘…the mall’ and ‘…them all’ coshed us with duff pun titles for a decade.
We’re also fortunate that this was seven years too early for ‘Darth Mall’.
September 14th, 2015 at 10:14 am
There’s an actual night for purchasing malls?
I had no idea there was so much demand!
Last Calm Prune High
September 14th, 2015 at 10:17 am
Puns are truly the Baen of the internet’s life.
September 14th, 2015 at 11:31 am
Once upon a time, you had to hunt the space witch. Now, you can hop to the shop and buy your choice of ’em.
September 14th, 2015 at 11:39 am
BAEN Enterprises; proudly providing security for Whitney Houston hologram concerts.
September 14th, 2015 at 12:42 pm
Looks like a ‘homage’ to Mannequin but the rent-a-cop looks nothing like G. W. Bailey.
September 14th, 2015 at 1:03 pm
The gurning guard looks like a young Lionel Stander. Maybe this is what Max was going when Jonathan and Jennifer Hart recruited him.
September 14th, 2015 at 6:04 pm
That? That’s gas.
September 14th, 2015 at 7:11 pm
What gets me here isn’t the art, although it’s not particularly stellar.
It’s the frigging TITLE. Did the author come up with that himself, or was it inflicted upon him?
I’m not sure I want to know.
September 14th, 2015 at 11:32 pm
What’s a cMall?
September 15th, 2015 at 12:48 am
@Anna T: And how do you get from Walpurgis Night to… whatever this is?
September 15th, 2015 at 1:49 am
@THX: the more interesting question is, how did they get from ‘The Fifteenth Wednesday After Pentecost’ to ‘Wizard’s Bane’?
September 15th, 2015 at 4:26 am
I think her arms disconnect just below the biceps, but be that as it may, why is she signaling for a timeout?
September 15th, 2015 at 8:44 am
PAUL BLART 3: MALL WIZARD
September 15th, 2015 at 8:47 am
So… “Mall Purchase Night” is supposed to be a pun on “Walpurgis Night”? (Thanks, THX 1138).
Such a masterstroke of wit calls for a Slow Clap. [raises hands]
*Clap*… *clap*… *clap*.
September 15th, 2015 at 12:04 pm
‘A friend of Cook’s says he also considered the title, A Mall and the Night Visitors.’
September 15th, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Somehow this cover does not make me trust the judgment and perception of armed security guards.
September 15th, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Lucky this wasn’t a series: if Robert Lynn Asprin’s discovery that ‘Myth’ sounds a bit like ‘Mis-‘ is any precedent the second-hand shops of the English-speaking world would have been swamped with books where the similarity between ‘…the mall’ and ‘…them all’ coshed us with duff pun titles for a decade.
We’re also fortunate that this was seven years too early for ‘Darth Mall’.
September 15th, 2015 at 7:48 pm
@THX 1138, A.R.Yngve: That pun deserves a one-handed clap under one’s nose.
November 6th, 2015 at 1:38 am
Show of hands please–who would prefer this cover with their poses and positions reversed? 🙂
January 12th, 2016 at 10:15 pm
Car 54 where are you? Crossing over with I Dream of Jeannie.