Feb 16
Click for full imageCollette’s Art Direction: I envision floating elderly embryos, spaceships, and armed jungle animals before a crimson sky! Hmm… maybe we should put that in a small box on the cover, because now that I say it out loud, it sounds kind of crazy.
Published 1971
(Average: 8.82 out of 10)
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February 16th, 2012 at 10:06 am
The naked bloke is what happens to you when you spend too long staring into funhouse mirrors. How does he expect to fit in his rocket now?
February 16th, 2012 at 11:44 am
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was rather disappointing this year.
February 16th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Tired eyes on the sunrise waiting for the eastern glow.
February 16th, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Wait a mo. ‘The fuse that would destroy mankind was lit…’ But it’s not the fuse that does the destroying, is it? It’s the bomb the fuse is part of. It makes no sense.
@Alessandra: that’s SpongeBob ProGeria. He’s a runaway hit because he hasn’t any tethering lines.
February 16th, 2012 at 7:54 pm
I’ve been wondering. Is the second creature from the left a hippopotamus? Because it looks like Jar-Jar Binks.
February 16th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Yes, a hippo, surely. The leopard on the right couldn’t be bothered to bring a weapon, smugly assuming that he is fierce enough with weaponing up.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:33 am
book publisher: “can you draw animals holding weapons, and elderly fetuses floating like balloons?”
starving artiste: “yeah, i can pull that off pretty well.”
bp: “how about a basic spaceship and/or futuristic building?”
sa: “not really, they usually end up looking like warped water towers.”
bp: “….you’re the tenth guy in here today. screw it; you’re hired.”
February 17th, 2012 at 6:32 am
Shame about the cover, I did like the spin-off toys though:
http://www.vinyl-creep.net/IWG
Also, this:
http://funnyanimalsa2z.blogspot.com/2011/09/funny-animals-with-guns-pictures-2011.html
February 17th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
“The fuse that would destroy mankind was lit and burning!”
But enough talk about global warming…
February 17th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Is this how Winston Churchill looked as a baby?
February 18th, 2012 at 1:03 am
This is by the great John Schoenherr, a Hugo winner best known for his illo’s and covers for the magazine serialisation of Dune in Analog and for Weyr Search, the first Pern story. I can only assume he was given specific instructions – his work is generally much better than this.
http://www.bpib.com/illustra3/Schoenherr/Draft.html
http://www.bpib.com/illustra2/schoenherr.html
February 20th, 2012 at 11:50 am
The animals are really well drawn! Not sure about the rest of it, particularly the flying Voldemort/Gollum…
March 13th, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Benjamin Button was furious when he found out that the fuse was lit:
“Ok, when I find out which one of you gun-toting animals lit the fuse there’s gonna be hell to pay!”
May 2nd, 2016 at 6:27 pm
See Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick for a very similar bald floating figure on the cover.
February 24th, 2023 at 4:35 pm
“Don’t worry about that ominous lit fuse, boys, the water tower behind me holds enough liquid to douse ten of them! Just make sure we keep it protected with the barrage balloon.”
February 24th, 2023 at 5:19 pm
The diaper that would destroy mankind was full and levitating!
February 24th, 2023 at 5:20 pm
I’d read the hell out of this book if it wasn’t for the fetus on the cover.
February 24th, 2023 at 6:04 pm
The late 70s TV Movie of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ was only marginally worse than the ‘Spiderman’ and ‘Captain America’ ones.
February 24th, 2023 at 10:14 pm
What do you call a fox with a gun?
Sir.
February 24th, 2023 at 10:50 pm
Mother Nature has been trying unsuccessfully to cull our herd for hundreds of years now. First sign any of the local fauna can carry sticklike objects in their forepaws (except for beavers who have yet to band together to flood us out) we’d better be paying attention…
February 25th, 2023 at 5:43 am
“OK, dude, I know we’re all working hard on evolving around here, but that’s a bit ridiculous. I mean, that head of yours is so big you keep tipping over.”
“Humans! Always overcompensating.”
February 25th, 2023 at 7:15 am
@BruceAM—GSS!