Jun 18
Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know how Rambo poses? And Arnie in all his films? I want that and I want my hunk to have arms the size of tree trunks! One can never have his space hunk too muscular.
Published 1985
Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know how Rambo poses? And Arnie in all his films? I want that and I want my hunk to have arms the size of tree trunks! One can never have his space hunk too muscular.
Published 1985
June 18th, 2012 at 10:16 am
“It’s the gun, isn’t it? Not big enough, right?”
June 18th, 2012 at 11:04 am
His Swollen-arm Hunkiness almost prevented me from noticing the excellent vampiric mantis and the hideously deformed space armadillo in the background. Almost.
June 18th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Oiled muscled hunk. Tight leather. Peculiar looking probe.
Ahem.
June 18th, 2012 at 12:15 pm
GRIMACE OVER MAN-WOOD.
That is all.
June 18th, 2012 at 1:56 pm
It’s beautifully painted. The artist really knows his stuff and his use of color and atmospherics is impressive. The alien critters and broccoli trees are plausible.
Can I blame this on the art director? Because for a closeup of an oily, tanned scowly dude with arms like bags of bowling balls and vacuum-sealed leather clothes and USS Enterprise-shaped gun and alien marsh and trees and monsters behind him, this is about as good as it gets.
June 18th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
@Alessandra: good call, I think you’re 90% correct. But take a look at those eyes. They’re wider-open than they could be, and the brows aren’t furrowed enough. The eyes are more hurt puppy-dog than furious concentration.
I rather like the praying mantis in the background!
June 18th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
“Bring it over here. That cake’s not going to ice itself, now, is it!”
June 18th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Today’s comments are excellent! All I can say is thanks for a jolly good laugh!
June 18th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Rambo on Monster Island with Thing/Mothra and Kamacuras.
June 18th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
This begs for a manly muscle TING! tag I believe 🙂
June 18th, 2012 at 6:14 pm
Yeah I think he’s pointing that gun in the wrong direction.
June 18th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
Why is this not tagged “cleavage”?
June 18th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Behind you! Praying mantis and giant broccoli!
June 18th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Is this what we would get if Dylan Thomas wrote SF?
June 18th, 2012 at 9:26 pm
[With heavy Austrian accent] “Everybody DAAUUWN!!”
June 19th, 2012 at 12:59 am
@Phil: that would be Menace Under Milk Wood, the touching Christmas time story of a two-metre-tall goliath, his abusive father and loving yet neurotic mother. Set in scenic Sramreggub, Wales.
June 19th, 2012 at 1:20 am
@Phil, the Dylan Thomas comment made me swoon. You are my hero.
June 19th, 2012 at 9:36 am
@Jane, thankyou ma’am… I think.
June 20th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
“Have you seen John Connohr?”
June 24th, 2012 at 8:35 am
Bruce Springstallone.
July 17th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
I’ll be back…
Someone had to say it!
July 12th, 2014 at 6:21 am
The really scary part on this cover is the giant broccoli! Regular sized broccoli is scary enough. Also, Sramreggub is buggermars spelled backward… just in case anyone cares.
March 28th, 2015 at 11:57 am
“”Marswood”? I see what you mean. I can do that.”
October 25th, 2017 at 2:32 pm
“Either yuh iit yur brackoli, or yuh eat lead. Yur choise, ponk.”
October 25th, 2017 at 3:27 pm
@AR: Wait, is that an Australian or New Zealand accent? I can’t tell.
October 25th, 2017 at 4:32 pm
It’s Arnoldian.;-P
October 26th, 2017 at 2:07 am
As someone who’s not only seen the films, but had to suffer him as governor — that is NOT an Ah-noldian accent.
“Eedehr yoo eet chur BROkhhhhallee…” and it would be “choyz”.
What you’ve written there is vaguely Kiwi but the vowels aren’t squished and shifted enough.
This guy seems more Stallone-esque anyway.
I have never seen a movie with both of them as I feared for my ears and IQ.