Options:
1) A deliberately terrible throwback attempt.
B. The artist had just come from a burlesque show, remembered she had to do a cover for a book entitled “Gestapo Mars”, and in a last-minute rush came up with this.
C. or 3) It was suggested by someone at the publisher, because they really wanted goose-stepping dancers wearing stilettos with flying saucers for heads.
@Tat Wood: If they only got your shoe, then maybe it might work. Or they’d break the stiletto heel. I’d like to see that illustrated sometime, stilettos being the most impractical footwear I can possibly think of, especially for a battlefield.
January 14th, 2016 at 11:57 am
Damen und Herren … the V-2 Rockettes!
Ah-one, and ah-two, and ah-three, and A4.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:14 pm
The Third Reich ran into some early problems with their Foo Walker project.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:38 pm
John Galliano up to his old tricks at Paris fashion week.
January 14th, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Ein! außerirdisch sensation. Jeder kleine Schritt nimmt sie!
January 14th, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Other titles in the Titan Books catalog:
Nazis Are from Mars, Commies Are from Venus
Chicken Soup for der Führer’s Soul
The Brotherhood of the Traveling Panzers
January 14th, 2016 at 1:49 pm
The banned episode of ‘Lidsville’.
January 14th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
I thought the Commies had Mars and the Nazis had the secret underground base in Antarctica.
January 14th, 2016 at 2:42 pm
@fred – Actually, the Nazis have the Moon. Check out that documentary movie Iron Sky.
January 14th, 2016 at 2:50 pm
One of the best books of 2015, along with Batgirl Vol. 1 and Bitch Planet.
January 14th, 2016 at 4:30 pm
Geez, poor Matt Damon just cannot catch a break!
January 14th, 2016 at 4:42 pm
Options:
1) A deliberately terrible throwback attempt.
B. The artist had just come from a burlesque show, remembered she had to do a cover for a book entitled “Gestapo Mars”, and in a last-minute rush came up with this.
C. or 3) It was suggested by someone at the publisher, because they really wanted goose-stepping dancers wearing stilettos with flying saucers for heads.
(iv) You decide!
January 14th, 2016 at 5:43 pm
Is there Cabaret on Mars?
January 14th, 2016 at 5:53 pm
The first design for Davros was almost right…
January 14th, 2016 at 6:11 pm
The Bell Jar like you’ve never seen it before!
January 14th, 2016 at 6:12 pm
‘AAAARGH’
HENRY ROLLINS
January 14th, 2016 at 6:21 pm
Wait till you hear their rendition of Love Power!
January 14th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Not sure it’s a good idea to be firing ack-ack guns in space. The recoil alone will kill your orbit.
January 14th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Oh, and here’s what they look like without their hats.
January 14th, 2016 at 9:36 pm
One For The Dads’ Army
January 14th, 2016 at 10:02 pm
Honestly, I would read this in a heartbeat. In fact, I may seek it out.
January 14th, 2016 at 10:17 pm
In the sequel to A Christmas Story, The Old Man becomes fascist and the Battle of the Lamp moves to Mars.
January 15th, 2016 at 8:48 am
You get your book published so naturally you start insulting other people on the cover, like calling them “genius”.
January 15th, 2016 at 10:55 am
“Dumkopf! I said ze helmets should be verdamten three DECIMETERS wide, not three METERS!!”
January 15th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
@Tat Wood: Are you saying Davros got a sex-change surgery?
January 15th, 2016 at 7:55 pm
@Anna T.: Stilettos are handy when picking your way through hand-mines.
January 15th, 2016 at 7:58 pm
@Tat Wood: If they only got your shoe, then maybe it might work. Or they’d break the stiletto heel. I’d like to see that illustrated sometime, stilettos being the most impractical footwear I can possibly think of, especially for a battlefield.
January 15th, 2016 at 8:46 pm
@Tat, Anna: Battlefield stilettos, or a close approximation thereof. That’ll be £1.
January 15th, 2016 at 9:32 pm
I see a battlefield stiletto on a gam,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche,
will you do the Goose-Step-O?
January 15th, 2016 at 9:50 pm
Waffen-Schutzstaffel
Victor Gischler’s novel–eep!
January 17th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
Weenius
January 18th, 2016 at 3:53 pm
Not another one of those Pegida marches!
February 4th, 2016 at 12:10 am
I’m so confused. Now who’s the Red Army?