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Click for full imageArt Direction: Look this is the 70’s! Who doesn’t have a LSD induced swirling vision of a womans face while walking around topless and carrying their longbow? I had one last night. Just draw, or you don’t get any happy juice!
Published 1973
(Average: 6.34 out of 10)
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May 20th, 2011 at 9:41 am
On second glance it really isn’t that bad… but would it survive the read on a bus test? I’m not sure.
A Dum arsed space novel eh…. I’ll get my coat.
May 20th, 2011 at 9:44 am
I dunno, these buddy cop movies are getting out of hand. Longbow Clint and the Giant Face just isn’t going to work. Although if they bring out the sexual tension, well, maybe.
May 20th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Yeah, it’s pretty easy to misread “Dumarest” on the cover there as “Dumbest,” which seems more accurate, somehow…
May 20th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
It’s not sci-fi! It’s a SPACE NOVEL. Completely different.
May 20th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
A Rio carnival dancer meets a 70’s action-hero type with *tight* pants in outer space. I’d totally read that on the bus!
May 20th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
She’s got Bette Davis eyes and Peter Max hair.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:27 pm
She’s about to give him Dinn’s Fire and then laugh disconcertingly.
May 20th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
The return of I Love Lucy. In space. With bows and arrows.
May 21st, 2011 at 9:39 pm
In my experience, DAW hired the -best- artists.
May 29th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
After being teased as “pizza face” in high school, and after she discovered she was a goddess and the wonders of face paint, Athena now must survive the male dominated business world of New York and work her way up from secretary to editor of Fashion Magazine. That’s the pitch.
January 6th, 2016 at 4:28 pm
The cover is prophetic: It foresees the day when the “everybody’s-got-to-get-tattoos-everywhere” finally jumps the shark.
June 2nd, 2016 at 11:18 pm
Maybennot.
September 14th, 2023 at 6:15 am
I read this one, back in the day: it’s basically Ego the Living Planet [1] if he was a hot woman, who of course falls in love with the protagonist. I guess living planets with skin problems break out in jewels.
[1] Guardians of the Galaxy 2, I think?
September 14th, 2023 at 9:38 pm
From the Wikipedia entry for “mayonnaise” – etymology section:
A more controversial hypothesis, put forward by the linguist and historian Nicolas Lepreux, suggests that mayonnaise originated in the Mayenne region, and that the “e” would have changed into an “o” over time: the apocryphal story tells that the Duke of Mayenne, on the day before the Battle of Arques, overindulged on chickens seasoned with a remarkable sauce, so that the next day he fell off his horse and lost the battle
And I think that’s what we’re seeing re-enacted here, with psychedelics.
November 10th, 2023 at 12:32 pm
Joan Crawford’s son has finally had enough of her sh!t.
November 10th, 2023 at 12:48 pm
Useless GSS factoid. Dick Blade. Pants 1 – Bow 0.
November 10th, 2023 at 4:07 pm
@GSSxn—plus rien de beige?
November 10th, 2023 at 7:13 pm
This is one of the best Dumarest stories, with one of the Dumberest covers.
November 10th, 2023 at 11:34 pm
“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. Galactus!”
November 12th, 2023 at 2:38 am
I recognized the technique of the swirls right off, didn’t have to check the name of the artist.
IIRC, Dumarest was a Very Manly Man, so he may be accurately depicted here.
@BC: Oui! If not as strongly as previous.
@JJYoyo: Interesting factoid. For the duke to be incapable, the mayo must have gone bad and they didn’t put in too much detail about his gastric distress. I’m feeling the Spanish origin myself. Also a mild interest in ranch dressing.
Have never bothered to make my own mayo, it’s too fussy to get a proper emulsion, mayo breaks easily. That’s what jars of mayo are for. Small jars — even as a WASP, I use it very little.
November 12th, 2023 at 11:18 am
Given that the author was from the right side of the Atlantic, was the original title ‘Salad Crem’?
November 12th, 2023 at 11:46 pm
For today’s plant-based market, it’s retitled “Vegenaise”.
(Her face does look like a broken emulsion)
November 13th, 2023 at 8:51 pm
@GSS x-n: I’d have gone with “Vaguenaise”…
November 13th, 2023 at 11:09 pm
@Leak: She is pretty vague. Looks like she’s got some ketchup and pepper sauce mixed in too.
“Mayenne is the giant cosmic face of condiments, and Dumarest has a lot of fried potatoes…”