Sep 28
Click for full imageStevie Comments: Jack Chalker’s Wonderland Gambit Book 2 is wild. That hot demonic guy with a massive glowing genital lesion doing who knows what to those dudes with the plumbing coming out of their heads. Who comes up with this stuff!
Published 1996
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September 28th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Is it just me or is anyone else a bit surprised this is published in 1996? It looks older than that.
Author of the Cybernetic Walrus!? Besides having an amazing image in my head of a walrus carrying a laser cannon, it’s not like it’s his great masterwork, is it? it’s just the first book in the trilogy.
September 28th, 2010 at 10:18 am
“BEHOLD MY RADIANT PACKAGE!!”
September 28th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Strewth, the bat wings are anatomically correct! And yet, the torso is too long for them. It looks like the bright light at the end of the tunnel is coming from his thighs, rather than his manly bits.
September 28th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
SI: the Rocket Raccoon comic from the 1980s featured a walrus with swappable cybernetic tusks, including a pair of blasters (which he referred to as “martial molars”).
September 28th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
Cybernetic tusks? Sounds like one of those Ninja Turtles wannabes that swamped the comics market in the 80s.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Perfect example of bad typography killing what could have been an awesome, if schlocky, cover.
I mean, it looks like Word 97’s WordArt feature.
September 28th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
I think everyone will agree that it looks exactly like the cover for a Chalker novel, except that all the people being horribly deformed are male, not female.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Hey, this is one I actually own. It’s really much better than the cover makes it look. The cover of the third book, The Hot-Wired Dodo, is about as silly. It features what looks like Fabio with angel-wings parting the seas: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0345388496.01.LZZZZZZZ.gif
I distinctly remember trying to convince my friends that it wasn’t a romance novel I was reading.
December 15th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
“It was horrible, man! We were in the gym, doing some steroids… ol’ Joe shoots up one drop too many… and BANG! his genitals implode!”
November 16th, 2018 at 11:43 am
Do you know, I think they’ve summed up the internet fairly accurately there. Not the Dark Net, either.
November 16th, 2018 at 1:16 pm
A CGI youngified Steve Railsback comes back in ‘Lifeforce 2’?
November 16th, 2018 at 3:14 pm
Enough fetishes here for a whole family of porn sites.
November 16th, 2018 at 4:04 pm
Yeah, “come toward the light” my ass.
November 16th, 2018 at 4:55 pm
Oh yeah? Well, fancy-pants portentous blurb writer, in a world of warped trust, reality could be nothing. So there!
November 17th, 2018 at 1:49 am
Baldy bald men!
Do we have a “weird ribs” tag? “weird torso”?
@fred: I too was thinking vampire. The bat wings, the red blobs, the handy victims.
Erm…It’s better than the “Dancing Gods” covers?
November 17th, 2018 at 2:02 pm
His right pec is bigger than his left. It must be hell trying to fly straight.
November 17th, 2018 at 2:35 pm
His thing’s got a Ting!
November 17th, 2018 at 11:38 pm
@biblio That’s the glare off his Prince Albert 😬
November 18th, 2018 at 9:30 am
So those pipes going into their heads would be those internet tubes we’ve heard of?
November 19th, 2018 at 4:32 am
@JuanPaul – I thought his Prince Albert was in his can?
November 20th, 2018 at 1:48 am
@B’mancer: why not both? It’s not like this cover could get any more weird and excessive. Butt Ting! Thing Ting! Everywhere a Ting! Ting!
@Bruce: Wonder if that guy read this book? (Or, more likely, saw his grandkid reading it and took it away)
November 20th, 2018 at 3:37 am
@GSSxn (prev.):
Ting! Thong?
“Ting! Thong?” “Who’s there?”
November 20th, 2018 at 10:29 pm
“March Hare!”
“March Hare who?”