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Click for full imageEron Comments: In this cover, we get a fantastic 70’s disco door that leads to ancient Rome and connected by the most realistic rendering of… uh… electricity? … we have a centurion, a queen, a werewolf and, wait for it, a dude in a sombrero.
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October 7th, 2010 at 9:14 am
Is that a sombrero, though? Might it not be a really big Afro hair-do?
October 7th, 2010 at 9:53 am
mm, from this angle it’s hard to tell – it could even be one of those conical hats worn in VietNam. the face could be South-East Asian. but I think he has a moustache that looks more Mexican. very mysterious…
October 7th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Looks like the best sitcom ever to me!
October 7th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Rome is safe now that it has Sting, princess buttercup, a werewolf, and a mexican to protect it.
Who would have known a Mexican would be the fourth guardian!? I am glad my people could be of help!
October 7th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
“Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN’T?”
October 7th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Learn the TRUTH about Pancho Villa’s role in the great Electric Disco-Ball Conspiracy!
December 15th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Christmas just ain’t Christmas without Eternal Guardians(tm) electrified Christmas-tree decorations…
Season’s Greetings, everyone!
August 25th, 2015 at 12:27 am
How exactly did an extremely lost member of a mariachi band get mixed up in this?
July 23rd, 2022 at 4:12 pm
Larry Talbot, Pancho Villa, Dido, and Julius Caesar walk into a taberna vineria.
July 23rd, 2022 at 10:40 pm
@fred: GSS!
If you’re speaking of Dido the Carthaginian queen, both she and Julie predate the Colosseum (and its ruined state) and the column of either Trajan or Marcus Aurelius by a long time.
Pancho Villa usually wore a more reasonable-sized sombrero, except he’d wear a giant one in publicity photos (which he was fond of). He died at 45, so I’m not so sure he was gray. Possibly it’s a picture of a random grandpa being made to wear the giant hat while being sung Happy Birthday at a mediocre Mexican restaurant.
July 23rd, 2022 at 10:45 pm
Is Pancho wearing an orrery on hs head to help the others plan their stellar journey?
(@ ex-Noob: The historical Dido was from Libya so presumably Fred means the early 2000s bland-pop nuisance who, with David Grey, made every shop seem like a lift.)
July 24th, 2022 at 11:04 pm
@Tat: An orrery would be kind of advanced for Caesar and historical Dido, so maybe it’s only a sundial. An orrery might be too advanced for pop-Dido too.
(Thankfully she was never nearly as popular this side of the pond, proving that occasionally, Americans have good taste).
This has a 3.67 on Goodreads, but no one’s reviewed it, ever.
The blurb says the guardians are 4 immortal ancient Romans, so now I’m doubly puzzled as to where Pancho and the creature came into it.
July 24th, 2022 at 11:11 pm
@ ex-Noob: Pancho Villa may have had one: nothing here precludes time travel (Dido being dumped by Aeneas was the starting-point for the founding of Rome, according to Virgil, so about a thousand years before Caesar).
Pop-Dido was, along with the Polyphonic Spree, one of the last acts to be able to (briefly) make it big in the UK by pretending to already be big in America. As she only had a career because Eminem sampled her, we can blame you. Or him. Or lead in petrol-fumes.
July 25th, 2022 at 12:49 am
Yes, Pancho probably at least knew what they were — he did live until the age of (silent B&W) movies, and well into photography, plus mass media via newspapers. So I guess he can explain it to the others. Or maybe the critter knows about it.
I’d blame Eminem. That was her only hit in America, and it was mostly his song. But if he hadn’t sampled her or put her in the video, the world would have been spared. Surely there were plenty of no-talent American girls he could have hired.
We had unleaded gas for years before that; I remember because we had an old car that required leaded and we had to add a bottle of something to every full tank to make up for the missing lead. The state eventually bought it for what we’d paid for it, and put it permanently out of commission by driving a stake through its heart. That is, boring a hole straight through the engine block and other bits to make it useless, and then allowing the junkyard who did that to break it down for spare parts they could sell. Win-win-win for all.
Nowadays, of course, everyone here’s got hybrids or electrics, except for the men who still need big trucks — not for work, just as penis substitutes.
July 25th, 2022 at 3:51 am
@GSSxN #12. Whaddya mean, you’re puzzled by the appearance of Pancho Villa?
Humphrey Bogart: If you’re the Fourth Guardian, where are your togas?
Alphonso Bedoya: Togas? We don’t need no stinkin’ togas!
July 25th, 2022 at 10:24 am
@GSSxn: If they hadn’t staked your old car through the engine block, would it have… come back?
August 4th, 2023 at 2:17 pm
So the big question is this: Is that the real Pancho or a Sears poncho?
August 4th, 2023 at 5:09 pm
If there are Eternal Guardians then there must be Eternal Attackers….Fu Manchu, Harry Lime, Rasputin, Rosa Kleb.
August 4th, 2023 at 5:53 pm
Juan Valdez at three O’clock. The demon at twelve ate his donkey.
I think they need a fifth Guardian, considering how the first four let the Coliseum go to hell.
August 7th, 2023 at 12:08 am
@Tor M—GSS!
August 7th, 2023 at 12:44 am
@The Blue: GSS for the Valdez comment!
@Tor: Could it be the real Pancho wearing a Sears poncho? They did overlap in time. Although he appears to be wearing a serape here. Maybe the giant hat provides enough protection that he doesn’t need a poncho.