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Click for larger imageIt’s a bonus Three-fer Thursday – “The Berkley Showcase” of fine cover art
Roger Comments: I’ve had these for years. Thought they might be GSS worthy.
Published 1980, 1981
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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It’s a bonus Three-fer Thursday – “The Berkley Showcase” of fine cover art
Roger Comments: I’ve had these for years. Thought they might be GSS worthy.
Published 1980, 1981
(Average: 7.00 out of 10)Loading...
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September 14th, 2017 at 8:26 am
#1 Err, OK, I suppose.
#3 Slightly rapey Star Trek cosplay was par for the course in early eighties, I hear.
#2 What the fuckin’ fuck. The only way this could be more brain-meltingly awful would be if the woman was holding a turkey drumstick in that paw of hers.
September 14th, 2017 at 10:47 am
1: Don’t shoot with your mouth full.
2: “Look what I almost stepped in!”
3: Violet-ing her personal space.
September 14th, 2017 at 10:58 am
#1 – The Berkley Clusterfuck
#2 – “Of course it’s safe. I’ve been drinking from that pool for weeks with no ill effects.”
#3 – “Let me mansplain to you about manspreading.”
September 14th, 2017 at 11:51 am
It’s Elizabeth Berkley Day.
September 14th, 2017 at 12:28 pm
#1: credit where credit is due, it’s difficult to maintain a steady aim when an elf is dry-humping your leg.
#2: “My God…the Earth! It’s been right under our feet the whole time!”
#3: If the artist were capable of positioning limbs on rocks, this wouldn’t be so bad. If.
September 14th, 2017 at 12:44 pm
Elizabeth Berkley #2) Has she got a cat’s paw for a right hand?
September 14th, 2017 at 1:35 pm
1. No sweat, no stink, no pinch. Duluth brand jockey shorts are the most comfortable to get dry humped by an elf in.
2. “So that’s where golden showers come from!”
3. Creepiest. Disco ‘stach. Ever.
September 14th, 2017 at 4:52 pm
1. I was not expecting to see a lion-man in a speedo with a small fairy wrapped provocatively around his leg.
2. Is the reason why her eyes are glowing the same reason why she forgot her pants?
3. Hey, everyone else who called cover 2 rapey? THIS is the rapey one. Eeeh . . . that guy’s body language . . . the woman’s body language . . . yuck.
September 14th, 2017 at 5:20 pm
@Anna T.: She looks more grapey than rapey. He’s just trying to impress her with his no-hands harmonica playing while on lunch-break from the go-kart track.
At least the first one pays lip-service to the ‘showcase’ idea and has a pile-up of different genre-ish images. It reminds me of the old ‘People Like Us Shop at Forbidden Planet’ carrier bags of the early 80s. They know their audience and have put the heavily-armed cat-man in a posing pouch front and centre.
2 & 3 only work that way if the artist’s tried to convey three or four mutually-exclusive stories (so 2 might have one about self-aware custard-puddles, another about a boggle-eyed she-werewolf and some Richard Hatch fanfic, for example).
September 14th, 2017 at 5:34 pm
@fred – She starred in The Elizabeth Berkley Showcase a.k.a. Showgirls.
September 14th, 2017 at 6:11 pm
There’s a definite sewage leak vibe about Number 2, which could easily be a Number 1 as well.
September 14th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
With enough colloidal silver, #3 doesn’t have to remain mere fantasy.
September 14th, 2017 at 6:37 pm
I had to give up on the first cover when my eyes wouldn’t focus. There was a cat-ape guy with a ray gun, I got that much. He really needs pants. If that woman would let go of his leg, he could put on some trousers.
However, the second and third covers – Have you ever seen the first-edition Nancy Drew books? http://bit.ly/2eYkerS Because I swear, the second and third covers look like Nancy Drew in space. Or maybe LSD Nancy Drew? Or LSD Nancy Drew in space? I’m just not sure what mysteries she’s solving. Maybe she’s trying to figure out the first book cover.
September 14th, 2017 at 7:04 pm
@Mellie: #2, THE MYSTERY OF SMUGGLER’S RIFT IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM. Where the real mystery is why her boyfriend keeps tagging along.
September 14th, 2017 at 8:48 pm
Before I read comments, I didn’t realize lion guy in the first cover was holding a ray gun. Looks like he is holding some space-martini, and is sipping it through a straw. Yes, I know that’s not how you are supposed to drink a martini.
September 14th, 2017 at 8:57 pm
@Mellie M.—Whatever the title, I enjoy the idea of Nancy Drew on acid. I think it has legs.
September 14th, 2017 at 9:14 pm
#2 – This one is so weird. Looking more closely she has a dog’s paw for a right hand and a glove carrying something on her left. And her guy friend is digging for truffles apparently.
September 15th, 2017 at 6:53 am
#1: Wow, that’s a blobby confused mess. Let me enlarge it… Nope, still a mess. Why is some homunculus humping lion-man’s leg?
#2: Too much caffeine… she has an animal paw? and maybe an oven mitt? She’s curtsying to a puddle of pee? I agree with the chap’s expression.
#3: Bog-standard skiffy. Although I don’t get the position of their feet. He looks thrilled to be a hairdresser in spaaace, though — FABulous.
September 17th, 2017 at 12:58 am
Lion guy? I thought mister Speedo there was an Anthro Walrus!
September 18th, 2017 at 9:33 am
“Tell me, Xorga… why is it, that there is so little physical variation among the humanoids outside Earth? Why are all your females the same shape?”
“Isn’t it obvious, Earthman? We can’t have a galactic civilization without a rigid beauty code. All skinny, fat and flat-chested people must be purged… and now the turn has come to Earth!! MUA HA HA HAAA!!”
September 18th, 2017 at 9:36 pm
#3: Why, Smurfette… you’re beautiful
September 18th, 2017 at 10:54 pm
#3. I don’t know. The expression on purple-skinned girl looks to me like King Bad-Porn-Stache is pulling her hair.
“Confess, woman! You were Violet Beauregarde in a previous life!”