Jun 07
Tom Noir Comments: After Charlie overheard Bob and Martha talking about ‘swinging’ together he knew that he must learn more.
Published 2006
Tom Noir Comments: After Charlie overheard Bob and Martha talking about ‘swinging’ together he knew that he must learn more.
Published 2006
June 7th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Women can’t resist a prince in a man-dress.
June 7th, 2012 at 11:14 am
I smell a sitcom!
June 7th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
One of the few covers on here that ADMITS to being bad. Oh wait, that’s part of the title.
June 7th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
I can think of no better way to honour the late Ray Bradbury, whose Fahrenheit 451 was my inspiration to write even when I was a wee laddie, by making a snarky comment about a novel’s bad cover art.
‘So, I see you weigh less than a duck. You’re a witch then, aren’t you?’
June 7th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I suppose I’d be banned from this Web site if I suggested replacing ‘royal’ with ‘pope’, wouldn’t I?
June 7th, 2012 at 1:57 pm
I choose to believe this is a twin publication, after the fashion of the old Ace Doubles. On the one hand, ‘Bad C’, in which a viking flies to the moon. On the other, ‘Prince Harlie’, the story of the medieval invention of the original Harley Davidson.
June 7th, 2012 at 5:40 pm
I choose to believe that, too.
June 7th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Always trying to find the good in any cover…………..those knots on the basket look neatly tied.
June 8th, 2012 at 3:44 am
Crossed armed guys looks to be leaning on an invisible pillar. With feet crossed like that he will fall over shortly…
Ginger in the basket asks “Why am I in this flippin’ basket?”
June 8th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
IMMEDIATE OPENING: Apathetic, incompetent editor needed to write fantasy cover blurbs. Temporary only.
June 9th, 2012 at 5:59 pm
I checked this book’s reviews out on Amazon and, incredibly, it actually seems like a good book… I may even buy it.
Awful cover aside, it seems to be a lampoon of Shakespeare and medieval fantasy stories.
June 11th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
You mean it isn’t a biography of the Royal Wingnut?
August 8th, 2012 at 10:02 am
I’ve read all of Moore’s books and I can confirm this cover is intentionally bad. His fantasy is all comedic, in the same vein as Terry Pratchett and Wicked. His “Heroics For Beginners” is a wonderful satire of the genre and has the single best deconstruction of the genre since The Evil Overlord list.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:26 am
@Dead Stuff With Big Teeth: I congratulate you on your Monty Python joke. That basket doesn’t look like it could support the weight of an adult human. So what’s she doing being lowered down the castle wall in it?
Show of hands: Who was reminded of the Prince of Wales upon seeing the title?
August 25th, 2015 at 2:42 am
@Adam Roberts: ‘When Prince Harlie Was One’
November 10th, 2015 at 6:11 pm
BAD PRINCE CHARLIE reveals the shocking secrets of the British royal family! We’re naming names!
January 5th, 2017 at 1:49 am
The inanimate objects (basket, stone wall, ground, clothing, sword what’s going to get that guy in the solar plexus) are very well rendered. The rest of it, not so much.
Can’t be about Camilla’s sanitary device — no one’s got Dumbo ears, bad teeth, or hair loss.