Jan 07
Click for full imageScott B Comments: So we have a glowing underwater shark-riding, um, zombie Roman legionnaire? At least I assume he’s been zombified, or something. That’s a real death-stare he’s got going on there. Maybe he forgot he can’t actually breathe underwater?
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January 7th, 2013 at 10:00 am
I can just see the epic battle now between the above and this guy:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2010/03/west-of-january/
Although the guy above does have the added advantage of being able to blind his opponent with his headlights! Ah hahah… headlights… get it? Get it? …. I’ll get my coat….
January 7th, 2013 at 10:09 am
We’re gonna need a bigger… er, whatever this is.
January 7th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to someone else’s head!
January 7th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
This, and WEST OF JANUARY, raise an important question: is there ANY way to ride on the back of a sea-creature without grabbing the dorsal fin and adopting an expression of combined fear and surprise?
I kind of like the bubbles coming out of the legionnaire’s mouth; it confirms he is indeed beneath the sea. I DISlike the three bubbles emerging from the shark’s lower portions. Is this a shark fart? Should there be a tag for this?
January 7th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
“Jaws 5, this time he has backup!”
January 7th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
“It was while he was on Shark Patrol in the Neptune Quadrant that Marius had THE IDEA.”
January 7th, 2013 at 2:07 pm
And this cover needed scrollwork embellishment why exactly?
January 7th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
I never realized that sharks had eyebrows.
January 7th, 2013 at 3:01 pm
Re: fred
“And this cover needed scrollwork embellishment why exactly?”
Yeah, judging by some of the other stylings in this piece somebody involved was really in love with Art Nouveau. I like it myself, but I’d have never thought to apply it to dudes on sharks. A visionary I am not.
January 7th, 2013 at 3:10 pm
Judging by his expression, he’s just discovered that shark skin really chafes…
January 7th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
Phil@4: “Grabbing the dorsal fin” really sounds like a euphemism for, well, y’know…
January 7th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
NIPPLE ARMOR! Shouldn’t there be a tag?
January 7th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
That spear of his isn’t going to skewering anything, unless of course that is the source of all the magical swirls at the top of the book, then he might be able to “magically” skewer someone.
January 7th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Why are they glowing pink? Why? Why are? Why are they glowing pink?
January 7th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Why?
January 7th, 2013 at 10:40 pm
Presumably because the cover designers realized the shark was about the same color as the background. And then when they made the shark pink, everyone else on-staff was all confused, “Is that a magic shark, for it to be glowing pink and having eyebrows?”
Or who knows, maybe it has something to do with the reason for the horrified, “The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God—it’s full of stars! AND ALSO WE’RE PINK”-type expression on the rider’s face.
January 7th, 2013 at 11:48 pm
Dont’ panic! DON’T PANIIC!
January 8th, 2013 at 4:01 am
@17: Well done Corporal Jones!
January 8th, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Shark is being Mr. Grumpy today, isn’t he?
I love the face on the front of the guy’s armour, by the way. Subtle.
January 8th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
“Jumped the shark” just became “rode the shark”.
January 9th, 2013 at 9:42 pm
If you just switch context, the so-so blurb suddenly becomes really interesting:
His home was among the stars — but his destiny lay beneath the waves.
CELEBRITY LAWYER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHES
January 10th, 2013 at 1:08 pm
Do sharks eat Ready-Brek?
January 12th, 2013 at 7:59 pm
His headlight just lit up Godzilla.
January 15th, 2013 at 11:18 am
His home was among the stars — but his destiny lay beneath the waves.
THE DROWNED ASTRONAUT
February 7th, 2013 at 3:55 pm
LOL!!! Oh gaed what a horrid cover….
Mr Underwater is wearing plate armor (apparently made of plastic or he would sink), a blunt spear with stink lines emanating from it for, umm, bruising your enemy?? Riding a shark in SPACE…..What is the sheild for and WTF Is that undenearth the shark, the phallic looking thing??? (shudders)
February 26th, 2013 at 3:50 am
I want frickin shark riders with frickin lasers on their heads!
August 18th, 2015 at 11:00 pm
Maybe nothing’s coming from his eyes…maybe he’s been hit in the face by urine torpedoes! That would explain why his hair is up on end.
August 19th, 2015 at 7:38 am
His home was among the stars — but his destiny lay beneath the waves.
DESTINED FOR SHIP TOILET DUMPS
August 19th, 2015 at 12:00 pm
♩♫♩
Somewhere under the sea
Somewhere waiting for me
My fighter rides on grumpy sharks
And lasers the ships that go sailin’
♩♬♫♩
Somewhere under the sea
He’s there glowing for me
If I could swim like sharks on high
Then straight to him I’d go arms-trainin’
♫♪♬♩