Nov 30
Click for full imageRaj’s Art Direction: Hmm, green, let’s go for a green rural idyll, with a giant green flying cat. Oh, and a woman in a green corset and very little else. In fact, make the woman riding the cat, while holding a sword. And that still leaves a little bit of space, why not fill it with a giant moon?
Published 1976
Many thanks to Raj!
(Average: 7.80 out of 10)
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November 30th, 2010 at 10:22 am
ET SO ripped this cover off.
November 30th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Is she riding the cat or trying to kill the poor thing? Vile woman, I would die for a green cat!
November 30th, 2010 at 11:13 am
she’s obviously riding the cat because of her disability (who could actually walk with calves and feet so small in proportion to the rest of her?)
the kitten looks quite calm, so I’d say they’re on good terms – perhaps she carries the sword to fight of the giant mice who fly down from the moon as it rises each night?
November 30th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Good heavens! That woman’s thighs! Her right must be a full third again as long as her left for it to be wrapping around that kittie’s neck. Then again, comparing her left arm with her right, maybe that’s not so unlikely.
I don’t know why the difference between the fonts should bother me so, especially when usually I’m the last to notice such things. Perhaps it’s because “The Green Millennium” is the only part of the cover that isn’t green.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I bet this was an ordinary cover before Bruce Banner took the book with him to read while waiting for the gamma-bomb test.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Wait a minute: that woman has cloven hooves!
And is adopting the time-honored heroic stance of holding on to her kitty steed with one leg, rather than using both hands as you or I might consider more practical.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Strangest thing – the cloven-hooved rider doesn’t have green skin.
How odd.
November 30th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Lady sports a tail.
No wonder she rides a huge cat – couldn’t take two steps without tripping on the tail.
November 30th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
a classic. I love this cover.
Since it’s Fritz Leiber, I assume the cat is screwing the woman, whether she wants to or not.
November 30th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Fritz Leiber didn’t live long enough to right the sequel: The Green Millennium Part 2: The Gray Mouser vs. The Green Kitty Rider.
Is the cat flying? Couldn’t it get any more altitude? I mean, the cow was able to make it all the way over ….
November 30th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
I asked my 9-year old daughter for her opinion on this cover. Her judgment: ‘it’s a bit random.’
The prosecution rests, m’lud.
November 30th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
The cover illustrates the featured story “Guardian of the Giant Green Cosmic Cheese Vs. the Space Cat”.
November 30th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
cutmanmike @2, would you dye for a green cat?
I loved this book and it did have a green-haired alien woman and a green cat, I think. Not in those proportions, I thought. Justin Leego @7, the cat might be orange-skinned if you shaved it.
December 1st, 2010 at 1:46 am
If the woman has hooves, why isn’t the cat riding *her*?
December 2nd, 2010 at 12:17 am
The font to ‘The Green Millennium looks like it was an afterthought.
Editor 1:”Oh, crud, we forgot to get a special font for the title!”
Editor 2: “Just paste something in. With that artwork, they won’t notice the title.”
December 2nd, 2010 at 4:46 pm
cutmanmike: there are experiments with green fluorescent dye-tags in certain proteins… tie it to the right protein in tabby-patterned fur, and I bet you could do it…. give it five years, and it should be special-order-able from your average genetic research lab…
(my dark-gray tabby is staring. Maybe the cat in the picture is a girl.)
December 3rd, 2010 at 3:41 pm
I think this one is not so bad. There’s something clear and strong about the composition. It does a better job than a lot of the others here on communicating one clear idea. It’s not the artist’s fault that the clear idea is “pale green.”
December 6th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
I’ll bet that woman is just happy that she found a giant flying kitten that matches her outfit!
December 8th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Is that Katy Perry?
December 15th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
On acid, you mean?
😉
May 9th, 2014 at 2:43 pm
Sky-legs tag? There’s at least four.
May 10th, 2014 at 2:38 pm
I can’t vote on this. This is a work of art.
Also, Fritz Lieber.
July 31st, 2015 at 8:00 pm
Darth Vader did it better.
December 17th, 2015 at 7:01 pm
The big question is: Where’s the “anatomy problems” tag?
And another: Was this for a modelling shoot, and therefore are the leg problems caused by bad Photoshop?
August 17th, 2020 at 11:47 pm
“Jeez – why can’t we take a taxi to the vets, like normal people?”
November 16th, 2022 at 5:07 pm
That is exactly the correct way to grip the sword.
November 16th, 2022 at 11:58 pm
Mars Cat and Horse Woman in the Quest for Cheezburger
November 17th, 2022 at 2:52 am
@Bruce – I see how your brain went from Green Star to Green Millennium… little people in really, really impractical outfits riding on oversized critters. Well, I’m glad it’s not just me…
This looks like a collage art project that went wrong (as they often do). Background is kinda nifty, then there’s Awkward Zebra Barbie on Bored Green Kittah with Teenie Paws… just… doesn’t… quite… fit….