Feb 20
Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: After all … it IS a Bantam “Spectra” book.
Thanks to Yamamanama for sending it in!
Published 1986
(Average: 5.80 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: After all … it IS a Bantam “Spectra” book.
Thanks to Yamamanama for sending it in!
Published 1986
(Average: 5.80 out of 10)Loading...
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February 20th, 2017 at 12:57 pm
Looks like they had a lot of A‘s that they had to use up from their typography budget at the end of the year.
February 20th, 2017 at 1:00 pm
I always knew Mr Miyagi had magical powers!
February 20th, 2017 at 1:19 pm
Team Thor – The Movie.
February 20th, 2017 at 2:14 pm
‘Hot spot’: where queer pride and geology meet!
(and maybe have a beer together)
February 20th, 2017 at 2:59 pm
“If we all fart together what can’t we achieve.”
I love these inspirational books.
(OK, unless there is some sort of choreography involved, they’re probably standing the wrong way around. Maybe the book is a paean to the power of group halitosis.)
February 20th, 2017 at 3:10 pm
Not so much ‘Font Problems’ as ‘Font Pre-Emptively Cashing-In On A 21st Century Franchise’.
February 20th, 2017 at 3:21 pm
Is this a Skittles commercial?
February 20th, 2017 at 5:12 pm
@Bibliomancer: Unfortunately, no, I don’t think so. Skittles commercials have more class, and less ’80s tackiness, than this. Which is a shame, because now I really want some Skittles.
February 20th, 2017 at 8:09 pm
Isn’t it ironic…the lack of colour on the cover!
February 20th, 2017 at 10:37 pm
Red ink must be expensive, hence the outline only on the title.
February 20th, 2017 at 10:47 pm
So, someone has sort of alluded it but I’ll just hang a lantern on it – that is dead on for the title font for Stranger Things.
Evidence.
February 21st, 2017 at 2:36 am
@JuanPaul – You must be joking. Science Fiction publishers are swimming in red ink.
February 21st, 2017 at 3:43 am
They’re making spectracles of themselves
February 21st, 2017 at 9:56 am
“They were on a mystical quest for the magic mountain that would make them taller!”
February 21st, 2017 at 9:58 am
Hillary’s desperate last-minute campaign poster failed to create the rainbow coalition she had hoped for.
(Too soon? Come on people, we’re equal-opportunity offenders, right?)
February 21st, 2017 at 11:05 am
@AR: Take whatever pot-shots you wish, all’s fair in love and war and campaigns for public office.
February 21st, 2017 at 4:26 pm
This was one of Mr. Wizard’s more dangerous experiments…rainbow colored lava.
February 21st, 2017 at 10:09 pm
The offering to Tūtū Pele wasn’t actually a virgin, but she didn’t seem to mind.
March 23rd, 2017 at 8:56 pm
@Tom
“So, someone has sort of alluded it but I’ll just hang a lantern on it – that is dead on for the title font for Stranger Things. ”
Benguiat. It’s on all kinds of books from the 70s forward and I believe the 80s movie Cloak & Dagger.
Type recognition is one of my talents. You should see my wife swoon when we’re watching the opening credits of a show and I’ll casually toss out “Clarendon Bold.” Women roll their eyes when they swoon, right?
March 24th, 2017 at 2:33 am
Yeah Stranger Things intentionally went for a retro font since it harkens back to the film and TV of that era.
Also, @Yoss, I’ll bet you’re a hit at parties!