Jan 26
E’s Art Direction: I want it to look like West Side Story in space, only make most of the Jets werewolf people with absurdly large guns.
Published 1992
Many thanks to E!
E’s Art Direction: I want it to look like West Side Story in space, only make most of the Jets werewolf people with absurdly large guns.
Published 1992
Many thanks to E!
January 26th, 2011 at 9:09 am
Ok, so two things that freak me out a little.
1. The werewolf(?) or should I say, teenwolf, on the left hand side is completely cross eyed.
2. That guys arm is huge! His elbow to hand length is long right? Could just be me.
January 26th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Oh, I know this one… the Backstreet Boys, right?
January 26th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
…and I want the only human to look like Ryan Reynolds and Seth Green had a love-child.
January 26th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Isn’t there a sying about werewolves and the size of their guns? 😉
January 26th, 2011 at 1:29 pm
@THX – you’re right. That’s one of those tiny keyboards slung on Human Boy’s shoulder.
January 26th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Do you think they’re compensating for something?
January 26th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Wait a second, I’m pretty sure those are just M16s with orange attachments those werewolves are holding. Because, you know, space werewolves have to rely on their cache of weapons from the 1960s. Also, the human’s gun kind of looks like an mp5 navy minus the magazine.
January 26th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Team Jacob
January 26th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
‘Coz this is thriller, thriller night — And no one’s gonna save you from the beast about strike …’
Ch’mawn.
January 26th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Boy, the Shangri-La’s are getting long in tooth.
“I met him at the candy store … He turned around and smiled at me … You get the picture? … That’s when I fell for the Leader of the Pack”
January 26th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
It’s nice to see they updated the concept for this later novel:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2009/03/good-show-sir-good-show/
I have to say though, I like my werewolves with t-shirts tucked into their jeans!
January 26th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
From a distance, those wolfy creatures look like rebellious gorillas from CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. You know, the ones with the cheap over-the-head ape masks, because they could no longer afford the latex prosthetics of the earlier films in the series.
Speaking of cheap prosthetics, I think that is the only plausible explanation for the human protagonist’s disproportionate forelimb.
The crosseyed wolfy guy is probably looking at a housefly which has landed on his vulpine snout.
January 26th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
The cover is worse than it looks. The characters look like they’ve been crudely stuck onto the front because they *have*. They are *textured*. They stick out of the paper!
I cannot imagine whose idea this was, but it was a really, really bad one.
Surprisingly the next printing used a different cover, much more boring-typical-SF.
(Even plotwise the cover is exactly backwards. Looking at the cover, would *you* guess that the wolflike creatures were pacifists who were at war only because they could just barely stomach it? They look like slavering werewolves! Maybe this was a cunning attempt to mislead the reader, but I sort of doubt it.)
January 27th, 2011 at 12:37 am
LAZER TAG OF THE DAMNED
January 27th, 2011 at 11:31 am
The subtitle sums it up nicely…
January 28th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Man, I miss the eighties.
January 28th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Go on, fire your macho guns right in front of a flimsy window in a space station…
January 30th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell What’s On The Cover” policy.
February 19th, 2011 at 7:56 am
Anyone with a dress sense like that surely is Damned!
March 10th, 2011 at 2:48 am
In the story it describes them as rodent like. I don’t think the artist read the book.
August 11th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I had no idea Dane Cook was starring the Teen Wolf remake!
February 9th, 2013 at 6:17 pm
‘Today on Art by Xerox, we’ll be learning how to paint the same werewolf’s head four times, and how to turn a serving of beans and onions into low-lying mephitic vapours.’
August 1st, 2014 at 3:40 pm
BodyCount in da howwwse….
BodyCount in da howwwse….
BodyCount in da hoowwwwwse….
BodyCount in da howse….
BodyCount
BodyCount
August 27th, 2015 at 1:45 am
There’s a “Proportional Issues” tag missing for that guy’s ridiculous left forearm.
October 31st, 2017 at 3:09 am
A police officer took one look at this lot and said:
‘Book one of the damned ….”