Jun 07
Phil Comments: Why John, you are so odd that I must hide behind these conveniently positioned but otherwise random spikes. But at least you’ve noticed me, which makes you not quite as odd as you used to be back in the days of: Odd John.
June 7th, 2011 at 10:09 am
“Hey there, where’s your boyfriend? I need to kick sand in someone’s face!”
June 7th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I think those random spikes are supposed to be driftwood. But uh… yeah. Odd John’s seriously pissed about something.
June 7th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Straight from the runways of Paris–driftwood bikinis.
June 7th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
And in the space of a cover Odd John goes from alien to creepy psychopath!
June 7th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Anderson Cooper??
June 7th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Book blurb:
He had to be stopped, for all women were his playthings and all men his pawns.
Suggested book title:
A DESPERATE SALES PITCH TO 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGINS
June 7th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
“Get your damn dirty hands off my driftwood sculpture!”
June 7th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Not ANOTHER sexist display of male flesh! When shall the objectification of men cease?
June 7th, 2011 at 7:14 pm
I’m sure there’s a joke about getting wood in here somewhere…
June 7th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Alternate blurb:
“A startling look into a future world of short, small people…”
June 7th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Donald “Red” Grant (Robert Shaw-From Russia W/Love) getting in a little R&R?
June 8th, 2011 at 9:29 am
“carry on” odd john
June 9th, 2011 at 4:15 am
Odd John has odd eyes.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Forget sheep censorship! Now we have driftwood!
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:05 pm
It looks like Pussy Galore washed up on the wrong beach…
June 24th, 2011 at 2:58 am
IT’s ONLY RUDE TO STARE….
June 24th, 2011 at 2:59 am
More sites should have double comment detectors. Even those that don’t allow comments.
August 24th, 2018 at 1:40 pm
Odd John? What does he throw at Bond?
October 16th, 2020 at 7:05 am
I think @A.R. Yngve pretty much nailed the blurb at #6, leaving us just the cover itself to mock.
‘His intellect was superhuman, but even he couldn’t solve the “sand gets _everywhere_ ” problem.’
It’s not really a very good portrait of Odd John, and our previous round with this book was a bit closer, although still not getting the eyes right: he’s described by one reader as “He has a disproprtionately enormous head, topped with crinkly white wool wool for hair and large eyes which normally seem like big black pools rimmed only by a thin circle of green.”
Which makes the first edition cover fairly accurate: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Odd_John_first_edition_cover.jpg
October 16th, 2020 at 11:54 am
@L.B. You probably don’t want to know.
October 16th, 2020 at 12:13 pm
“All men his prawns!” What kind of sick bast- oh, wait a minute…
October 16th, 2020 at 1:07 pm
Micronauts/Ant Man comic book villain as well.
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/oddjohnm.htm
October 16th, 2020 at 1:55 pm
Wikipedia describes the book as a “recurrent vision of cosmic angst” but all I’m getting from this cover is triceratops porn.
(No, you probably don’t want to do a Google search for “triceratops porn”)
October 16th, 2020 at 2:08 pm
@Francis B: ‘Are you feeling horny? – Because I’m three times as horny…’
October 16th, 2020 at 2:28 pm
For naked people on an island, her hair and makeup are extremely well-done.
October 16th, 2020 at 2:53 pm
He’s not exactly having a discreet glance at her bottom, is he? Those eyes!
October 16th, 2020 at 4:12 pm
Um, it’s not an odd john. It’s a bidet.
October 16th, 2020 at 5:53 pm
This is what has John so shocked (nsfw but not porn):
https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7169972480/hE6328A6D/dont-tell-me-what-to-do
October 16th, 2020 at 7:12 pm
For some odd reason when I look at this cover I hear
“Niagra Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch . . . .”
@Tor M—GSS!
October 16th, 2020 at 11:34 pm
@fred: Only a smidgen sillier than this.
@FB: I’m 99.99% sure Chuck Tingle has written triceratops pron. But not with women involved.
@drlemaster: To be fair, she might have a beach house she’s just stepped out from to pose with the driftwood. But who does all that grooming to go nude sunbathing on private property?
October 17th, 2020 at 1:43 pm
@GSSxn: The combination of GSS comments and Wikipedia continues to improve, (well, or at least broaden) my education. There’s even a mention of ‘Ravished by a Triceratops’. I would never have guessed.
October 18th, 2020 at 2:46 am
@Vlttp: Rule 34. Always Rule 34.
October 19th, 2020 at 2:31 am
It also might be the claw of a giant crab. Giant crabs are, after all, a common sign of Science Gone Wrong.