Dec 20
Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: I expect hell will be similar to my Friday night… naked and flexing my fine stuff! HEYOOo… high five? High five…? No? Ok… but seriously, I want a bum on there. You can draw mine, I shaved and…. what… No? Ok… just get Ron from accounting, he works out.
Published 1982 (maybe)
December 20th, 2012 at 10:25 am
The title translates as “I hope you don’t mind, I hate wearing clothes”.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
The road to hell is paved with…one flagstone.
December 20th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
I think we’ve all had that dream: you’re riding your floating stone through the dark forest and suddenly you realize you’re not wearing any clothes!
And also you’re super buff.
December 20th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
What you don’t see in that slab, is that it’s made of tiny stones like on an annoying car park after returning from the beach. It’s hell! HELLLLLL!
December 20th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
I see England, I see France, I found an artist who can’t draw pants
December 21st, 2012 at 3:35 pm
He’s not naked. He’s wearing a tie. Sure, it’s floating around his head, but still.
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Arnold Shwartzeneger in “Terminator 5 – Hells Pavement!”
(evil T1000 just woke up in hell! Hell is not ready for this!)
February 22nd, 2013 at 5:26 pm
Needs “Sir Mix-A-Lot” tag.
June 12th, 2014 at 12:04 pm
Hell is not being made to surf naked over blue volcanic lava. Hell is a bar full of people bragging about having done it.
That’s why this is only the road to hell; the ingredients for it.
January 1st, 2016 at 1:25 pm
LE STREAKER DE L’ENFER
January 11th, 2022 at 3:12 pm
A better pic so you an appreciate the artist’s skill at foliage and chasms. Not that chasm, the other one in the background.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?336156
August 7th, 2022 at 5:16 pm
It’s not serious sf without a nekkid someone on the cover. Hands AND feet and everything at the proper proportion/angle – someone was paying attention in anatomy class.
@GSS – excellent art direction!
August 8th, 2022 at 12:19 am
He only had one good intention, but that’s all it takes.
August 9th, 2022 at 2:18 am
What’s really hellish is that this cover is better than any of the English language ones. Check ISFDB.
So, Le Pav is only that one chunk that’s apparently a hoverboard that you can only ride nekkid, preferably into a scary forest. Which is also possibly hellish — maybe it’s really hot, necessitating the nudity?
Or maybe he just likes to show off that firm butt, which would be admired by whoever’s Sir Mix-a-Lot’s female counterpart.
“Omigod, Becky, look at his glutes!”
Perhaps this is the opposite of the famous Stairway to Heaven.
@Emster: Yes, that looks like an actual human being of normal proportions. Even the feet! You don’t usually get that on a GSS cover.
August 9th, 2022 at 10:08 pm
The paving of Hell has run into various delays and cost overruns, but Dis bureaucrats promise work will begin on the second brick by 2032.