Oct 14
Click for full imagePerry Comments: I actually rather like the artwork for this junior, abridged edition (even the title’s abridged!), but remain intrigued by the gentleman depicted at centre. Either he was already blind, or, assuming he’s one of the multitude blinded the night before, clearly thought it important to locate/don dark glasses prior to venturing outside!
Published 1973
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October 14th, 2015 at 2:20 pm
Great googly moogly. If only the 60’s film triffids looked like that. MST3K would have had a field full of phallic symbols day with this.
October 14th, 2015 at 3:16 pm
It’s OK, it’s the kids’ version so they’re like puppies, pleased to see him therefore licking his face.
October 14th, 2015 at 3:16 pm
@Tag Wizard – Those aren’t tentacles. They are flagella. Please fix the tag.
October 14th, 2015 at 3:18 pm
@Bibliomancer – Stop being cilia.
October 14th, 2015 at 5:12 pm
They look like they’ve got jalapeño peppers on strings, and are using them as impromptu flails. Which would explain why that man’s wearing sunglasses – to protect his eyes not from the Sun, since he can’t see, but the pepper-flails which could burn his eyes.
There’s still phallic symbolism, but I came up with an explanation for the glasses.
Hah.
October 14th, 2015 at 7:25 pm
@Tag Wiz, B’Mancer—they are neither flagella, nor cilia, nor tentacles—they’re stalks, and those aren’t Triffids, they’re artichokes.
You can tell this is true because they’re “stalking” that blind guy . . .
Ok, I’m leaving . . . .
October 14th, 2015 at 8:25 pm
Tag Wizard, if you plant another pun like that we’ll have to censor your posts to stem the tide of bad jokes. Let’s seed if you can leaf that urge behind.
October 14th, 2015 at 11:53 pm
Triffid #3 looks as though it’s confused about something.
October 15th, 2015 at 2:08 am
Fred: sometimes a lethal bioengineered man-eating plant is just a lethal bioengineered man-eating plant.
October 15th, 2015 at 12:24 pm
So, if this is the abridged children’s version then, am I supposed to feel all warm and fuzzy when I see Janette Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and stings?
October 15th, 2015 at 1:51 pm
@DSWBT: No matter who you are, if Janette Scott doesn’t make you feel warm and fuzzy I suggest a visit to the doctor’s to check for a pulse.