According to a cover blurb from an earlier edition this is supposed to be ‘an extraordinary tale of interplanetary espionage and individual cunning’. This cover must be working undercover.
1976: Donald Trump has hit rock-bottom. Then an alien comes bearing champagne and teaches him how to talk out of two orifices at once. The rest is history.
“Alright, who opened the time portal to the Xelian Embassy New Year’s party of 3562? We all know what happened THERE.”
“I think it was Steve. Didn’t you see him passed out next to the portal?”
“DAMMIT STEVE! Close it NOW!”
And thus, they knew that Steve was in dire, dire need of an intervention.
Both protagonists here deserve a ‘Behind You!’, as one is slumped unconscious with a bottle of White Lightning and the other is leaving a party where the twin/ clone/ doppelganger/ evil parallel universe version o/ future incarnation/ other of the first is having a good time with a cocktail-glass in his hand. It’s evidently a version of the 80s Babycham advert with Queeg from ‘Red Dwarf’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kyu8akrwA
Or, the green putty-monster is what John Oates really looks like
When I think “adventure” I don’t think of having drink spilled on my head. But, then again, who says it’s the human’s adventure? I think it’s Tri-Eye’s.
January 12th, 2016 at 11:45 am
Ah I see he went for the haircut that attracts alcohol!
January 12th, 2016 at 11:59 am
… if ‘The Nightmare of Eden’ was about the dangers of alcoholism.
January 12th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
‘Can’t let you do that…Star Fox.’
January 12th, 2016 at 12:44 pm
When your cocktail waitress looks like this … it’s time to quit drinking.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
Y’golonac earns a few bob extra working student parties as a bus’boy.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:13 pm
You’re no Donald Sutherland!
January 12th, 2016 at 1:14 pm
Also, I don’t find this very arousing. Oh, rousing, sorry, as you were.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:22 pm
“Hey! My eyes are down here!”
January 12th, 2016 at 1:23 pm
This new version of Harvey failed to attract Hollywood when Bill Murray passed on it.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
I like that the monster has a little bar rag tucked in its belt. Those small bits of realism really make this cover rousing.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:29 pm
That and those sideburns of course—blunt vs. tapered?
January 12th, 2016 at 1:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz – The monster waitress is wearing a belt with no pants. So you can tuck you tips in there.
January 12th, 2016 at 1:47 pm
@Bibliomancer—see? Rousing!
January 12th, 2016 at 1:50 pm
Lethal Phaser #5:
“One’s Aldebaran, one’s Alabaman. Together, they fight crime!”
January 12th, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Artist David Egge sells the same cover to the Germans for a Douglas Adams paperback:
Das Restaurant am Ende des Universums
January 12th, 2016 at 2:16 pm
According to a cover blurb from an earlier edition this is supposed to be ‘an extraordinary tale of interplanetary espionage and individual cunning’. This cover must be working undercover.
January 12th, 2016 at 2:24 pm
She was never the same after Steve Harvey accidentally crowned her Miss Universe.
January 12th, 2016 at 2:53 pm
1976: Donald Trump has hit rock-bottom. Then an alien comes bearing champagne and teaches him how to talk out of two orifices at once. The rest is history.
January 12th, 2016 at 3:39 pm
@Perry (2): Tom Baker’s performances in Season 17 are all the warnings on the dangers of alcohol anyone might need.
January 12th, 2016 at 5:04 pm
“Alright, who opened the time portal to the Xelian Embassy New Year’s party of 3562? We all know what happened THERE.”
“I think it was Steve. Didn’t you see him passed out next to the portal?”
“DAMMIT STEVE! Close it NOW!”
And thus, they knew that Steve was in dire, dire need of an intervention.
January 12th, 2016 at 5:04 pm
@Tat Wood: Brilliant.
January 12th, 2016 at 6:28 pm
Definitely needs a better tagline.
“His most intoxicating space adventure!”
“They came from another world… where they only knew how to PARTY!”
“To serve man… beer, wine or spirits!”
January 12th, 2016 at 6:58 pm
Think that guy on the floor could use an “above you!” tag?
January 12th, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Both protagonists here deserve a ‘Behind You!’, as one is slumped unconscious with a bottle of White Lightning and the other is leaving a party where the twin/ clone/ doppelganger/ evil parallel universe version o/ future incarnation/ other of the first is having a good time with a cocktail-glass in his hand. It’s evidently a version of the 80s Babycham advert with Queeg from ‘Red Dwarf’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7kyu8akrwA
Or, the green putty-monster is what John Oates really looks like
January 13th, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Actually, the artwork is good and original (and humorous).
But who is this “Poula Nderson”??
January 13th, 2016 at 9:42 pm
I have to say, the new Wii U remake of this game takes it in a quite different direction.
January 17th, 2016 at 2:19 am
When I think “adventure” I don’t think of having drink spilled on my head. But, then again, who says it’s the human’s adventure? I think it’s Tri-Eye’s.
January 19th, 2016 at 4:46 pm
@A.R.Yngve: PoulA ‘n’ derson
January 22nd, 2016 at 8:33 am
“His most INCONTINENT space adventure!”
January 26th, 2016 at 8:07 am
Wow, Flippy the Toad was never the same after that freak teleporter accident…