Jun 02
Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: “You Earthlings don’t realize how ridiculous you look in your jumpsuits and diaphanous gowns!”
Published 1977
(Average: 6.40 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: “You Earthlings don’t realize how ridiculous you look in your jumpsuits and diaphanous gowns!”
Published 1977
(Average: 6.40 out of 10)Loading...
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June 2nd, 2016 at 11:09 am
“How you doin’? I’m collecting kisses!”
June 2nd, 2016 at 11:21 am
Lex Luthor blames Superman for EVERYTHING that’s happening on the cover.
June 2nd, 2016 at 11:22 am
A trail of brown patties leads to between his legs…unfortunate.
June 2nd, 2016 at 11:35 am
Straight Outta the Dead City.
June 2nd, 2016 at 12:53 pm
You can never get good looking outfits at the big and tall store.
June 2nd, 2016 at 2:24 pm
“So as you can see, my feet are far superior to your puny, unevolved Earthling appendages, though I admit your hairdos are impressive.”
June 2nd, 2016 at 3:15 pm
If they were in The Dead City then it wasn’t really a Dead City but an Almost But Not Quite Dead City and then it officially became The Dead City when they left the Almost But Not Quite Dead City. Right?
June 2nd, 2016 at 3:25 pm
That dude is in such a classic Hildebrandt pose.
https://ajcarlisle.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/j-r-r-tolkien-22the-fellowship-of-the-ring22-art-by-the-brothers-hildebrandt.jpg
There should also be a word for Hildebrandt hands…Hildehandts?
June 2nd, 2016 at 3:39 pm
@Fred—that’s a tough one. Maybe they were never in the dead city to begin with?
June 2nd, 2016 at 3:39 pm
What are little girls made of in the chess City on the edge of sf cliche.
June 2nd, 2016 at 4:12 pm
Not so much a Chip* on his shoulder as a Simon on each and one on his belt.
(*See what I did there?)
June 2nd, 2016 at 4:49 pm
This is probably what the makers of the forlorn ‘Logan’s Run’ TV series hoped it would look like.
June 2nd, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Not since Earth Dreams have we witnessed a power struggle of such awesome intensity!
–Dead Stuff With Big Teeth, author of The Van Lustbader
June 2nd, 2016 at 5:29 pm
Baldy seems to be sneaking a peek at the redhead Playtex model’s decolletage.
June 2nd, 2016 at 5:47 pm
The bald guy dressed like a knockoff space wizard is probably going to fire his tailor once he realizes that going barefoot in knee-length robes doesn’t actually suit him.
June 2nd, 2016 at 6:28 pm
@fred: maybe Out is the fellow’s name. Out was born in the Dead City, but he’s been living in Cairo or Woolloomooloo or somewhere most of his life, and now he’s going back on holiday.
June 2nd, 2016 at 10:03 pm
The spine notes that the original title is Captives of the Flame, so of course the cover shows the moment just before big fella Flame snaps his fingers to bring his captives out of their trance.
June 3rd, 2016 at 7:49 am
Is the name of the city Nobsville?
June 3rd, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Casual Friday on Gallifrey.
June 3rd, 2016 at 5:57 pm
@Francis Boyle: Ten out of ten, sir. Brilliant. I laughed.
June 4th, 2016 at 3:01 am
The whole body language of the humans just seems to scream incredulity. Like they’re thinking, “Yeah..riiiight…You just came out of the Dead City. Sure…”
July 18th, 2016 at 10:18 pm
Duncan’s karate demonstration failed to hold the crowd’s interest.
March 25th, 2020 at 6:35 pm
If Ridley Scott had filmed this exactly as shown it would have been better than the end of Prometheus.
March 25th, 2020 at 6:48 pm
Look closely in the far middle, and you can just about make out a face saying “I’m not dead…!”
March 25th, 2020 at 6:59 pm
Yes, the entrance (?) looks a lot like a cartoon dog’s head, maybe Goofy. Walt Disney emerges from his cryogenic chamber aeons in the future to greet the archeologists uncovering the ruin of Disneyworld.
March 26th, 2020 at 1:37 am
@Ray P: That doorway is absolutely Goofy.
(The cover as a whole is absolutely goofy.)
March 26th, 2020 at 2:58 am
Just as long as they’re not out of the toilet paper they’ll be fine.
March 26th, 2020 at 3:29 am
THE DEAD NEED NO TOILET PAPER
For a 1970s book, the cover has sort of a 1930s pulp sensibility about it, although the jumpsuit guy on the left looks a bit more modern.
@Ray P.: Disney Necroengineers have labored for centuries to build Disney a new, mightier body. The costume department, on the other hand, just kinda threw something together at the last minute.
August 18th, 2020 at 12:50 am
“What do you mean. I’ve got lipstick on my collar? How very dare you?!”