Nov 26
Good Show Sir Comments: I think it’s a tale of Merlin showing a boy Robin Hood his model airplane collection and time machine, but I don’t care enough to read it and actually find out.
Published 1952
Good Show Sir Comments: I think it’s a tale of Merlin showing a boy Robin Hood his model airplane collection and time machine, but I don’t care enough to read it and actually find out.
Published 1952
November 26th, 2018 at 10:52 am
Merlin likes ‘holding a candle’.
November 26th, 2018 at 11:02 am
The title says “location of epic grandeur”, the cover pic says “old coot’s souvenir collection.”
November 26th, 2018 at 11:52 am
A Nick Nolte-full of secrets.
November 26th, 2018 at 12:25 pm
Boy to the fourth wall: He asked us in to see his rocket.
November 26th, 2018 at 12:37 pm
Some masterful use chiaroscuro there. If Caravaggio had just thought to give all his light sources haloes he could have saved himself a lot of effort.
November 26th, 2018 at 1:52 pm
Nice ascot.
November 26th, 2018 at 1:54 pm
@FB—Thanks for the Caravaggio note. The next time I study “The Conversion of St. Paul on the Road to Damascus” I will look for the Tesla coils hidden up in the shadows.
November 26th, 2018 at 2:15 pm
“Now remember, our ‘rocket time’ is our secret. Don’t tell your parents.”
November 26th, 2018 at 5:17 pm
Elon Musk: Let me tell you, Sunny, back in 2018 I was rich and famous and about to launch my own starship. Then everyone realised I was an idiot and the shareholders bought me out.
Kids from Next Door: Yeah, right Gramps. Crank up the generator and show us the old-timey cyber-porn they used to have before the Crash.
November 26th, 2018 at 5:24 pm
And then young Robin Hood took out his dagger and stabbed the old geezer to death. But they never did find any of the money they thought he had hidden inside the pages of his old books.
The End
November 27th, 2018 at 12:55 am
This is so peak 50’s and Golden Age of SF (both the 1930s-60s, and 12 years old) that I am compelled to say “Golly gee whiz!”
It’s… actually a good piece of art. No anatomical issues, no font problems. It’s just dated and thus has unfortunate implications that everyone above has noted.
I’m thinking shifty kid down right is going to be the villain. Or at least break something vital.
Huh… Turns out I have read this, many years ago! @Tat Wood (9) is closest to correct. YA post-apoc, the boys enter the ruins of the city (which is Forbidden, as is tech and books from the Before Time) to find stuff in said vault to defeat the evil tribe who’s attacking their tribe.
Perfectly suited for straight white 12 year old boys of all ages.
November 27th, 2018 at 2:29 am
The artwork looks a bit like 50s US advertising but also oddly like Joseph Wright of Derby. Was this deliberate?
(especially these https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-alchymist-61181/search/actor:wright-of-derby-joseph-17341797/page/2 https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/an-experiment-on-a-bird-in-the-air-pump-114302/search/actor:wright-of-derby-joseph-17341797/page/6/view_as/grid )
November 27th, 2018 at 2:38 pm
@Tat Wood
I was reminded of that too (he bell jar is a dead giveaway) but went with Caravaggio because anyone who get’s to go by one name is automatically way cooler than someone who needs three.
August 11th, 2022 at 2:45 am
Vault of the Ages?
1) I don’t see anything that looks like gymnastics…
2) a vault of the Ages would have to be so good that it got 10s across the board – even from the Russian judge (if they’re even allowed to officiate anymore).