Jul 04
Tor Mented Comments: Conan learned the hard way that you shouldn’t say “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle” while stabbing a wizard.
Published 1976
Tor Mented Comments: Conan learned the hard way that you shouldn’t say “I’ll be a monkey’s uncle” while stabbing a wizard.
Published 1976
July 4th, 2019 at 9:33 am
Admins, I think you accidentally reposted the previous cover! Either that or I’ve taken too many pills again.
July 4th, 2019 at 11:16 am
I think having virgin in the title is a highly optimistic assertion.
July 4th, 2019 at 11:33 am
You tease us with these enticing tags!
July 4th, 2019 at 2:48 pm
@Tom Noir – Cover looks OK to me. Check your medicine cabinet.
(Doesn’t your comment look a little silly now?)
July 4th, 2019 at 3:17 pm
Full wrap around.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55422932@N06/6859291892
July 4th, 2019 at 3:34 pm
This is what you get if you call a monkey an ape (and an ape a monkey). Touchy!
July 4th, 2019 at 4:17 pm
So if Fred’s link is to be believed, whatever she’s looking at is something worse than a barrel of scuba-pirate-monkeys with scimitars and too bizarre for this cover.
Maybe her parents have walked in.
July 4th, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Wow. No wonder she looks rather disturbed and like she wants clothes pronto.
July 4th, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Are the sheep on vacation?
So they’re advanced enough to develop scuba packs, but not guns. I guess their civilization is just very focused on old Cousteau specials.
The cover seems to be a bit much for the guy in the ragged shirt: he seems to be having a bit of a breakdown.
Is it just bad perspective, or is the one coming out of the door hobbit-sized?
July 4th, 2019 at 7:50 pm
@Bruce – The sheep got invited to an American barbecue. They were very excited. But they are late returning and I am getting worried.
July 4th, 2019 at 10:22 pm
I was on here earlier today and know for a fact the cover has since been changed. You can’t keep the space sheep over our eyes Tag Wizard! The GSS truther movement will grow in strength and your conspiracy to discredit Tom Noir and cover up “the event” will one day be exposed for all the world to know. You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time…
And the book cover is all wrong, all the figures and parts of a large ship are crammed into a tiny space they couldn’t possibly fit into at the same time – obviously faked. (don’t try telling me photoshop didn’t exist in 1976)
July 4th, 2019 at 11:05 pm
@Verylate: It’s OK, they just did Flashback Friday a day early. And flashed back to the previous day.
July 4th, 2019 at 11:11 pm
@Verylate – Got screenshots? No? Never happened!
July 4th, 2019 at 11:23 pm
You’re laughing now, but I swear on my tinfoil hat – one day…
And I know “Tag Wizard” is your official rank in the Illuminati – think you can hide in plain sight?
July 5th, 2019 at 12:13 am
Is this book the sleazy spin-off from Chorlton and the Wheelies?
July 5th, 2019 at 2:55 am
There are some things boggling on this cover, but I do not think they are minds.
Love the conspiracies—I’m certain Bibliomancer has all the answers, but, strangely, there’s no Bibliomancer post today. Coincidence?
July 5th, 2019 at 3:16 am
I’ve read this, but with a different cover. One you could read in public.
Tweet Jane’s comment on the Twitter sums it up well. But she really is a virgin — a teetotaling missionary. And, sorry to say, this is actually a perfect illustration of a scene in the book. (She marries Conan-ape!) The titular (heh) virgin isn’t this girl.
Is Space Sheep American and taking the day off? He won’t be back till after the fireworks show.
“The Wheels of If” is the more interesting of the two, so of course it can’t be on the cover when there’s an option for boobs and apes.
July 5th, 2019 at 2:02 pm
All I have to say about today’s cover and comments is — too much monkey business!
July 5th, 2019 at 4:46 pm
I spent the whole of yesterday first trying to think who she reminded me of and then rummaging for a suitable quote from her lyrics. Then it hit me:
If I only could, I’d make a deal with God; I’d get him to swap our places.
July 6th, 2019 at 12:31 am
@B. Chiclitz: And since your comment “Bibliomancer” has posted. Well, a post under Bibliomancers name, I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
It’s all going to be covered in the soon to be (self) published:
‘Behind The Tag Wizards Curtain – Lifting the Sheep on the Good Show Sir Conspiracy and Exposing the Web Linking Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, the Bilderberg Group & the Build-a-Bear Workshop, David Icke, Pam Ayres, Aleister Crowley (in league with Russell Grant and Tommy Cooper), the Third Chuckle Brother, The Clangers and Bagpuss.’ (might need a snappier title)
When published it will prove everything I say is true. If it fails to get published, that will also prove everything I say is true.
July 6th, 2019 at 4:39 am
@VLTTP: I just want to read the Bilderberg/Build-a-Bear chapter. The connection is right there in the names! Parents should know!
@Tat: to note the obvious — she hasn’t got one of those.
July 8th, 2019 at 7:19 pm
Has no one else noticed the artist copped the girl from this Frank Frazetta painting?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/25/ff/f4/25fff41950e70c95fa8139cfafba3f8b–egyptian-queen-frank-frazetta.jpg
Also, disturbing, the kneeling figure in the right bottom corner of the cover seems to be giving a bj to the tiny pirate!
July 9th, 2019 at 1:42 am
@Tracy: if you’re gonna steal, steal good, I guess.
As to your other observation, egads! And without using his hands.