Feb 19
Click for full imageSara Comments: Here I am, just stepped out of my mecha-techno, time-traveling, chrome, orb-y…thing. The only drawback is that it destroys all clothes that are not right gloves or right boots. Swords are not clothes so they’re all right, too. Also it makes weird shadows stick to you. Wait, am I floating above a strange river?
Published 1958
(Average: 8.54 out of 10)
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February 19th, 2013 at 10:29 am
Finally Ken gets an accessory that’s useful!
February 19th, 2013 at 10:50 am
‘Manly Wade, Wellman’ was the tiny-headed protagonist’s mission-brief. He’s wading, his name may well be ‘Wellman’ but unless he has a snug-fitting body-stocking with a handy method of concealing his most vulnerable part, the pecs and abs (and overcompensating rapier) will have to cover the ‘manly’ portfolio.
Is that the Statue of Liberty on the left edge of the painting?
February 19th, 2013 at 10:52 am
“They say that mp3s will render CDs redundant. But my GIANT CD will never go out of fashion! It doesn’t even need a CD Player; you read the disk with your naked buttocks.”
February 19th, 2013 at 10:53 am
Wow… this cover is pretty Manley!
February 19th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Genitals are so hard to draw correctly.
February 19th, 2013 at 2:09 pm
“Hey, have you seen my fiancee by any chance? She’s gotta be around here somewhere. Wears cellophane clothes, likes performing interpretive erotic dance for random strangers? She never showed up to our absurdly naked wedding.”
February 19th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Something about his head is creeping me out…maybe it’s the body it’s attached to. And what the blazes is going on over his left shoulder? That weird mass of spiky bubbly things gets stranger the more I try to figure it out. And between the authors name and naked man…who will believe you are actually reading science fiction as opposed to gay erotica?
February 19th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
I like how someone tried to cover up his right boot with some sort of modesty patch. Because, obviously, an openly visible right boot would have been too risqué.
I like even more how someone else tried to remove the patch, no doubt for the purpose of ogling said right boot.
February 19th, 2013 at 4:07 pm
@FearofMusic: among that weird mass of spiky bubbly things, one bubbly thing is wearing one of those conical, held-on-by-a-thin-piece-of-elastic party hats.
There’s one huge missed opportunity here: a TING! from his mighty sword!
February 19th, 2013 at 4:33 pm
Don’t think that is a boot. Looks more like a law enforcement tracking device used for house arrest. But why a nude man with a sword should be of concern to the authorities is beyond me.
February 19th, 2013 at 6:51 pm
@Phil: His ‘sword’ doesn’t look so mighty to me.
February 19th, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Is that silver disk attached to his butt?
February 19th, 2013 at 10:07 pm
@Phil,: Party bubble! Explains nude man..er, well…
February 19th, 2013 at 10:29 pm
You all say silver disk, I say very large egg!
February 20th, 2013 at 2:08 am
@A-S, FoM, P: maybe that’s her ovipositor? After all, can you see any man-bits on ‘him’? I think not! I think that’s a lady, and that’s her unholy brood of larvae behind her.
February 20th, 2013 at 4:27 am
It occurs to me that being named “Manley” could really screw someone up. That’s a lot to live up to, especially when you’re starting out as a little bitty guy who isn’t quite toilet trained, needs a night light, and still thinks there might be a monster under his bed.
February 21st, 2013 at 8:53 pm
Separated at birth?
February 22nd, 2013 at 1:49 am
@Dead Stuff re:#15- Ewwwwww….
February 26th, 2013 at 8:24 pm
I feel like we should give him a modesty sheep, just so he doesn’t feel bad.
February 27th, 2013 at 12:08 am
“I have no genitals and I must scream”?
February 28th, 2013 at 6:01 pm
Middle right edge: penguins.
March 1st, 2013 at 5:58 pm
Oh my God! Those ARE penguins! That puts this cover into the realm of WTF factored to infinity.
May 28th, 2013 at 11:40 pm
I’ve actually read this book; the man on the cover is (presumably) our protagonist, Leo Thrasher, with his “time reflector.” Leo makes the trip from the mid-1900’s to Medici-ruled Italy not only sans clothes but sans BODY. His essence travels back in time and then Leo builds himself a new body (somehow) by recruiting the matter in the carcass of a dead sacrificial ox (!) whose precise space-time coordinates he knows from an ancient cult manuscript. As if the weirdness factor of this story couldn’t get any higher.
June 22nd, 2016 at 7:02 pm
David Bowie lab experiment erotica. Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes.
June 23rd, 2016 at 11:58 am
@Ictwice: I have been pronouncing your name ‘eye-see-twice’, but it could be pronounced ‘ick-twiss’ as well. How do you say it?
March 23rd, 2017 at 12:25 pm
(24) – Can’t be Bowie. You’d need more shadow for Bowie.