Dec 21
Good Show Sir Comments: I’m going to make a fur loincloth out of you… and you… and you… especially you…
Published 1979
Good Show Sir Comments: I’m going to make a fur loincloth out of you… and you… and you… especially you…
Published 1979
December 21st, 2016 at 11:13 am
Permit me to be the first to say: “Werenight?” “THERENIGHT!”
December 21st, 2016 at 12:14 pm
“Axe too heavy! Woooah!” (topples backwards)
December 21st, 2016 at 12:32 pm
It weren’t night, it were evening.
December 21st, 2016 at 1:00 pm
Apparently they all studied the martial art of Leaving Oneself Wide-open. Also known as “Doggy Wanting Belly Rub”.
December 21st, 2016 at 3:12 pm
Not only are the werebeasts fighting Gerin and his friend, some of them are also fighting each other. Or disagreeing about the battle plan – it’s up to you to decide.
Speaking of which . . . which one of those men is Gerin. We have the options of Axe, Helmet and Battle Underwear or Tight Breastplate. Who do you choose?
December 21st, 2016 at 3:30 pm
Emerson, Lake and Slaughter.
December 21st, 2016 at 3:41 pm
Wereheads. Werebodies?
December 21st, 2016 at 4:01 pm
@Anna T. – You have it exactly right. “Uh, Gerin, let’s get the hell out of here. The Werebeasts seem to be just fighting each other.”
December 21st, 2016 at 4:03 pm
There’s some Ting! missing.
December 21st, 2016 at 4:49 pm
While helmet-head is smugly posing with that giant inflatable axe, the dagger homing in on his rather too obvious turquoise belt buckle is about to launch his second career, as a soprano in an opera company.
December 21st, 2016 at 4:52 pm
There are also once again scabbard issues.
December 21st, 2016 at 5:03 pm
The were-beasts are all either fleeing from something we can’t see to the right of the picture or towards something we can’t see to the left. A lamp-post?
The humans standing aside and letting them pass seem to be Frank Oz and Jim Henson. Maybe this was what ‘Dark Crystal’ was supposed to have been like.
December 21st, 2016 at 6:10 pm
@Tat: ‘…but today, the desperate slaughter of the werebeasts give them no comfort.’
Or maybe…
‘Turquoise belt buckle? I don’t have a turquoise belt buckle.’
‘Of course not. You’re a boy.’
December 21st, 2016 at 6:19 pm
Although I like Turtledove’s work, this early offering is definitely not one of his best works. It almost reads as a narration of a role playing game and not until it gets to the final chapter does it really seem to have any heartfelt action.
December 21st, 2016 at 7:22 pm
I never realized were-Scotty dogs existed until now.
December 22nd, 2016 at 1:15 pm
We few, we happy few, we band of barbarians;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall surely have had his buttocks bitten;
Be he unseemly portrayed upon a paperback,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in Elabon now a-bed
Shall think themselves lucky they were not here,
And hold their “manhoods” safe in their hands whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon this Werenight’s day.
December 23rd, 2016 at 12:57 am
I read a later edition, which has a more appropriate cover. These faux-nans suggest epic grimdark, while the book is pretty goofy and has sensible armor.
Everything on this cover deserves to die.
December 23rd, 2016 at 1:01 am
@Ray 15: there are were-birds too big to fly, and were-elephants a couple feet tall — because this book observes conservation of mass. So much of the were-army is useless. Nobody knew that until it happened.
September 9th, 2019 at 10:33 pm
“It was Gerin the Fox against a legion of weasels in a desperate effort to save Toad Hall from destruction!”