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Click for full imageEighties cartoons are just fantastic, aren’t they. Wait a second… What if we go for that eighties look? Musclebound guy wearing strange straps which have no benefit and gold bracelets. Holding aloft his magic glowing scepter. No one is going to forget this cover anytime soon!
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March 16th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
This is actually the magazine New Statesman before it was rebranded.
I started trying to count how many straps that geezer is wearing, but I had to give up.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I think he’s hoping the straps will distract attention from the purple and pink tights. He wrong.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Good spot on the purple tights!
He also seems to be carrying two pretty large ‘personal’ computers. Combat could never be easy carrying those around.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
The gayest hero in the galaxy! First he will defeat evil alien beings bent on conquest. Then he’s going clubbing. Old Compton Street, look out.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:30 pm
Synopsis: What if He-Man was bald and had an eye patch
you can even see Skeletor there.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
‘Hope Hubris’. Ah, it’s a fine line between ‘hope’ and ‘hubris’, is it not. And also between ‘good cover’ and ‘terrible terrible crappy cover.’
March 16th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
He fights hard and plays hard.
March 16th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
D’oh. James beat me to it.
March 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Jeesh, Statesman, take it down a notch.
March 17th, 2010 at 9:48 am
the font! The font! Its soooo ’80s! think ‘MAsters of the Universe’…
December 15th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
“IIII HAVE THE JOCKSTRAAAP…!!”
May 28th, 2013 at 5:57 pm
This cover cries for some tag love! Planet-sized TING! Skulls-a-poppin’! Utility belts! BEHIND YOU!
Also, whoever designed the title needs a new line of work. I misread it as NOISY PANTHER: NO TYPO FABRICATES A LOVE 5UM: MANE STATS. Simple to do, really.
May 28th, 2013 at 8:28 pm
Excellent taggestions, Dead Stuff. Community high five!
Maybe we need a Wierd Pecs tag, but I think it’s just that guy. Is he a mutant? Giant ribcage, tiny pecs. Muscles everywhere else. Everywhere. seriouslywhatisgoingon
May 29th, 2013 at 4:11 am
@Tag Wizard: Good sir, I vote stronglystrongly in favor of the addition of a weird pecs tag. It could be added to Twice in Time. The odd asexual being there has a chest that looks like someones’ backside. I am quite certain many more examples are waiting.
March 14th, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Who decided to pose a G.I. Joe and use it as the cover on a book?!?
July 6th, 2015 at 6:16 pm
What one earth is going on with his ribs?? Or for that matter, his entire upper torso?
September 30th, 2015 at 9:37 am
Emo Hitler with muscles. Yeah, that‘ll make me want to read the book.
December 15th, 2015 at 2:04 am
In the far future, clothing will be mostly belts.
December 15th, 2015 at 2:41 am
Say what one likes about it, some persons keep coming back to look again and again.
December 16th, 2015 at 9:27 am
He promised to make America great again, to make its people the happiest people on Earth — and the voters ate it all up!
February 7th, 2017 at 2:40 am
Came here to make a Trump joke only to find that AR Yngve beat me to it by an entire year!
GSS: come for the silly covers, stay for the highly prescient political prognostications!
February 7th, 2017 at 3:37 am
Speaking of those, the new show “Powerless” did a quick shot of a guy reading a newspaper with headline “President-Elect Luthor Vows to Make Metropolis Great Again”. It was just a little funny ha-ha filmed before the election.
Now we’re all envious. At least Lex Luthor is smart and believes in science.
February 9th, 2017 at 1:12 pm
At least no one will accuse us of reading SF to escape from reality.
(Laughing through my tears! Ha ha ha… *sob*… ha ha haaa…)
February 10th, 2017 at 5:12 am
Ha ha ha ha ha…
Although this cover looks more like Putin. Same deal.
August 15th, 2021 at 9:28 pm
If Hope hasn’t painted his nails purple he’s just a Galactic poser.