Mar 13
It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Müller-What-The-Fokker Goings-on
#1 Tat Wood’s Art Direction: “Look, we’re late to this whole Cyberpunk thing but I’ve got the rights to a book about a guy being stored as data. It was published twenty years ago but we can kid the nerds into thinking it’s hip and fresh. It’s a comedy but for Chrissake don’t let on.”
#2 Good Show Sir Comments: Tat lays down the challenge, but I say you can never beat the first edition. Those hardcover publishers only hire the best artists.
Published 1990, 1970
March 13th, 2018 at 11:28 am
1: The Gunther von Hagens Effect?
2: You know when men get to a certain age and legs start growing from places they didn’t used to…
March 13th, 2018 at 11:28 am
Müller-fokking covers…
March 13th, 2018 at 11:37 am
When your letters start growing nipples then, yes, I think you’ve got font problems but they’re probably the least of your problems.
March 13th, 2018 at 1:45 pm
There is some DEFCON 1 terribleness going on in that bottom cover. Is that a nose harpy?
March 13th, 2018 at 2:25 pm
1. Looks like zombies. Boring zombies. What happened to Roderick? Did he bail at the last minute when he got a look at these covers?
2. Not obscured by clouds, unfortunately.
March 13th, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Looks like both artists suffer from Dunning–Kruger effect.
March 13th, 2018 at 4:23 pm
1: That’s one vaguely smug-looking, unattractive cyborg.
2: I have some boxes of Kleenex for this guy if he needs it, since he seems to be blowing a pair of legs out of his nose. And his brain’s deteriorated into a puddle of water, too.
I say cover 2 is uglier.
March 13th, 2018 at 7:57 pm
OW MY EYES! Oh. How did that pin get stuck in there.
March 13th, 2018 at 9:27 pm
@Ikari: Only Connect fan? Testify!
March 14th, 2018 at 1:35 am
2.). This man’s nose is running.
I wonder if his feet smell.
March 14th, 2018 at 1:52 am
@Tor – LOL Good Show Sir!
March 14th, 2018 at 5:15 am
Plumber: I’m here to turn off the nose.
I heard it was running.
March 14th, 2018 at 6:09 am
1. Typical Unknown Artist’s Institute rookie mistake, not knowing how to handle negative space—cyborg looks like it’s stroking its chin with a dildo.
2. First you go, “Oh, cute, the lower case “e”s look like little weird faces,” then as your eye continues downward, the term “weird face” just goes way out of control.
March 15th, 2018 at 1:28 am
Speaking of eyes, I’d like some bleach for mine.
I think everyone’s said everything I thought of, although I’m surprised #2 didn’t actually show the Mullerian ducts. Got kinda close. Also mildly surprised there isn’t a WWI airplane on it.
Why is the nose-harpy with man legs holding a cane? Did they think all this cover was missing was a song and dance number? (Or is it a trapeze, equally dumb?)
@BC: Maybe that explains the smug look @Anna T perceived.
@Ikari, Tor: LOL.
Nose-woman’s nipples are the least offensive thing about it.
#1 is ugly, but at least the fonts are inorganic and it’s not scary.
March 15th, 2018 at 7:07 am
I showed #2 to the husband and he started listing off all the stupid things about it and ran out of breath before he even mentioned the grumpy nose-face, trapeze, and schnoz nipples.
And I just now noticed the pointed ears.
March 16th, 2018 at 2:13 am
Muller-Fokker?
That sounds like cursing. I hope I’m not revealing any spoilers for those who want to read the book….
July 12th, 2021 at 8:10 am
That’s funny… I can’t remember that John Sladek’s novel contained a scene where a man was horribly flayed alive by acid.
July 13th, 2021 at 3:23 am
@AR Yngve: They just recycled the cover of “Ow! I fell into Acid and it Really Hurt: a Memoir.”
July 13th, 2021 at 4:04 am
@Bruce: okay, so which book did they recycle the cover from for #2?
July 13th, 2021 at 1:30 pm
@GSSxn: That cover was recycled from “Wow! I Dropped the Acid and it Really Heard Eye Nail Nose Boobies: A Memoir.”
July 13th, 2021 at 11:05 pm
@Tor: Of course! Undoubtedly how the cover came to be.
UAI: Where none of your fee goes to talented teachers, but much of it goes to really good drugs.
July 13th, 2021 at 11:21 pm
@Tor Mented: GSS! Better than anything I was likely to come up with.