Oct 28
Click for full imageDon Comments: “Helmets with bunny ears will overpower helmets with horns every time. So sayeth Ason the Incredibly Bored!”
Published 1973
Many thanks to Don!
(Average: 6.78 out of 10)
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Don Comments: “Helmets with bunny ears will overpower helmets with horns every time. So sayeth Ason the Incredibly Bored!”
Published 1973
Many thanks to Don!
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October 28th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Look in the background… it’s:
[bass voice with echo]
TWINKIES… OF… THE GODS!!
October 28th, 2010 at 9:34 am
“Stonehenge! Where the demons dwell!
Where the banshees live and they do live well …
Stonehenge! Where a man’s a man
And the children dance to the Pipes of Pan”
October 28th, 2010 at 9:40 am
“No one knew who they were, or what they were doing…”
Spinal Tap still rocks
😀
October 28th, 2010 at 9:47 am
“Loki the Unwashed. He could knock a man down with the smell from under his cloak.”
October 28th, 2010 at 10:00 am
By contrast, the lowest swordsman’s helmet is pretty well detailed. Worthy of Games Workshop package art.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Oh, and it’s difficult to tell but am I right in thinking that the cloaked warrior’s eyes are focused off-cover to his left? Is he “striking a pose”?
Could it be that he is in fact a catalogue model, the Derek Zoolander of ancient times, who had a hideously racist vendetta against redheaded Celts?
In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history…
October 28th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
White space! Lots of it, boys! We’re going to come up big with this cover.
October 28th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
This cover, at least, confirms the (somewhat obscure) hypothesis that Stonehenge was built by time-traveling Vikings.
October 28th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Please tell me that there is slight cover damage that makes the dying warrior on the right look like he’s sticking his tongue out, and that said tongue is very shiny.
October 28th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Bunny-ears there is actually in a half-way decent golf swing position. He dropped his shoulder a bit much and he’s going to roll his wrists through so fast that he’s bound to hook it, but a couple of lessons and he’ll be bombing that seven sword.
October 29th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
@Babbage – I hear Tiger Woods is now practicing his swing with a spiked shield on his arm.
October 29th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
@Justin: Yup, his eyes are looking up and to his left, as if to say “Again with the Viking hordes? Cuh!”
@NGpm: Luckily, you’re right, that’s a ding in the cover, not his tongue.
@Babbage: It is an interesting technique, isn’t it? Especially when you notice (as I just did) that the sword hilt is BEHIND his right hand.
I wish I’d put a little more thought into the commentary on this one, between that and having also noticed that Horn Guy in the foreground apparently has a foot-long neck, and that Dead Guy on the left may just be collapsed in helpless laughter.
But all I could think of when I ran across this one (in a box in the garage that’s yielded a trove of awful covers for this site) was MY HELMET HAS BUNNY EARS. YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID.
October 29th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Fore! Oh no what a wicked slice … he’d best be getting out his recovery club.
October 29th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
you don’t usually see the shield+2-handed sword combo
July 6th, 2013 at 6:03 am
How does that go now, ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever..”
Well, hopefully a crap cover won’t last that long, but at least it’s good for a few years of mockery. Gawd, the composition, the proprtions, the color palette. Ah hell, if it’s brown like a turd, let’s call it a turd.
And just think, TWO authors got to go “WTF?” when they laid eyes on this.
July 6th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
What you people all fail to see, is: HIS SWORD GOES TO ELEVEN!
October 18th, 2015 at 6:12 pm
Hairy Stoner & H.R. Arsonlover
Ethenesong
August 8th, 2016 at 1:29 pm
This cover presents the first evidence of “Furry Skyrim Cosplay” documented. 🙂
January 15th, 2017 at 4:50 am
The mud-brown in the middle of the trilithon is what really helps reduce interest in this cover.
Something can stand for thousands of years, inspiring all sorts of wonder, and one movie can ruin that; when gazing with our own eyes upon the real Stonehenge, I murmured to my husband “Too big for a dwarf to squash.”
January 15th, 2017 at 3:56 pm
I never got plastic Vikings in my Weetabix, just cardboard Ogrons and Daleks.
August 17th, 2020 at 11:01 pm
Main character: “…It’s just a step to the left…”
June 29th, 2023 at 7:14 pm
The Pandorica opens, takes a look around, sees the sky, mutters something about English weather, then closes again.
June 29th, 2023 at 7:25 pm
“You see, Ragnar? Swing your greatsword with your hips – not your back!”
June 29th, 2023 at 9:45 pm
@B. Chiclitz: Bunny-Ears has a very jaunty hip, don’t you think?
June 30th, 2023 at 6:42 am
@GSSxn—Yes, the better to wield his jaunty sword with, since he’s not getting any leverage from those grotesquely foreshortened arms.
June 30th, 2023 at 10:49 pm
@BC: Are those even real arms?
I guess he’s supposed to be wearing chain or scale mail, but it looks knitted.
July 1st, 2023 at 1:11 am
Nigel the Barbarian?
July 1st, 2023 at 11:33 pm
@GSS ex-noob: he’s a product of the build-a-barbarian workshop.
July 2nd, 2023 at 4:02 am
Ancient Dorians and Israelites -disguised as Vikings – battle for the monumental alphabet of the Druids. “It’s pi!” “No, it’s chet!” “Pi!” “Chet!” “3.14159…” “no, just 8.” “Why I oughtta…”