Apr 16
Remember when you used to dress up in black clothes, paint red eyes on your hoodie, stand with a knife and pretend to sacrifice your little brother to an evil spirit just to gain some physical power that will, in the end, only destroy you? No? Well you haven’t lived man! Now, let’s put that on there.
April 16th, 2010 at 11:53 am
Shouldn’t have used the camera flash. That ninja has got the red eye.
April 16th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Title: Poe Must Die!. Subtitle, in smaller font: What Do You Mean, He’s Dead Already?
April 16th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
I think the tag would be improved with a “muhahahaha”.
i.e. “A descent into the black soul of a diabolic age, muhahahaha”
because the cover makes it look like it has the theatrics of a bad opera or play or even a larping event. Thats right, i just compared theatre to live-action roleplaying.
April 16th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Doesn’t look scary. Saberhagen in front of a Minotaur, that’s scary.
April 18th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
“A descent into the black soul of a diabolic age”
Justin Bieber fans are easily jilted when their idol doesn’t respond to their tweets
April 19th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
“Poe must Die. And we need to start putting some money in the budget for illustrators, otherwise we’ll be reduced to photographing the temp in a halloween costume again.”
April 19th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
Actually I knew the eyes reminded me of something.
I was watching the movie Big the other day. And look:
http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww126/indiefan23/zoltar.jpg
It’s the same eyes! Scary. haha
May 13th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I’ll write a book and let some 4th graders do the cover. Then I’ll collect my Nobel.
November 1st, 2013 at 4:46 pm
Bah, if only I’d seen this cover in time for Halloween!
November 4th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
A descent into the black soul of a diabolic age
THE FUNKY DEVILS OF MOTOWN
February 2nd, 2014 at 2:44 pm
A DESCENT INTO THE PALE ARMS OF A DIABOLICAL EMO.
February 2nd, 2014 at 5:05 pm
I thought it was Tinky WInky the televangelists had decided was evil
February 2nd, 2014 at 6:32 pm
I don’t know, with all the cheap theatrics you’d think the knife would have more of a badass look. This just looks like it was swiped from mom’s kitchen.
April 30th, 2015 at 8:41 am
The sequel, SHAKESPEARE MUST BE SHANKED, flopped.
April 30th, 2015 at 2:09 pm
@AR: it’s such a shame about BLOCH’S BUMPED OFF, nobody was there to watch the twist ending!
May 6th, 2015 at 7:29 am
And I was so looking forward to the next book, BROWN BE BEHEADED, but Dan Brown’s lawyers stopped that release with a cease-and-desist…
March 1st, 2019 at 4:52 am
See, if they’d done this before the start of ‘The Last Jedi’ the Resistance would still have a fleet. But no, macho wisecracking dickhead causes hundreds of deaths and yet the fanboys think Rose Tico was the problem.
March 1st, 2019 at 6:29 am
The PG-13 movie version, POE MUST BE REPEATEDLY PUNCHED IN THE GROIN (co-starring Pauly Shore) still has its fans.
March 1st, 2019 at 6:52 am
@Tat: Bra-VO. (standing ovation)
March 1st, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Rip Torn laughs derisively at that sorry excuse of an executioner.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001800/mediaviewer/rm802835968
March 1st, 2019 at 4:50 pm
@BC (way back at #13): My thought was that Lee Moyer would never bother to re-create this one. It already looks like a random assemblage available at any suburban con hotel. No challenge to be had.
March 1st, 2019 at 5:45 pm
The knife-wielder’s nickname could be “The Conqueror Worm.”
Or maybe “The Imp of the Perverse.”
March 2nd, 2019 at 12:58 am
“Darren, if you’ve taken the Wiltshire Staysharp* again bring it back right away, I’ve got the Sunday roast to carve. And no, just because we named your little brother Damien doesn’t mean he’s the antichrist.”
*Australian reference: substitute your favourite brand of kitchen knives.
March 2nd, 2019 at 10:46 pm
Any truth to the story this was renamed The Poe Must Diet for religious reasons?
March 4th, 2019 at 3:53 am
@Tor M—I think that knife is about to descend into the maelstrom.
March 4th, 2019 at 7:08 am
@Francis: Poe Must Ginsu!