Mar 04
Click for full imageJoachim’s Art Direction: Make sure her antennae/horns are made of felt…
Published 1967
Published 1967
(Average: 8.48 out of 10)
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March 4th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Damn, I left out the “the”. Never mind, I’ll just…squeeze…it…in…here.
There. No one will notice.
This one is the embodiment of WTF, or possibly of “Whaaaaaaaa…..?”
March 4th, 2013 at 11:18 am
Maybe The Maw of God would be more appropriate?
March 4th, 2013 at 11:56 am
Little did they know…her ‘eyebrows’ wrapped through the turban and erupted out the top of her head!
March 4th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
The little head spikes cast no shadows. They were added as an afterthought, you know, because the turban/towel girl didn’t look sciencefictiony enough.
“Man’s most exciting adventure”, indeed.
March 4th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
Rex Gordon – Airline pilot, war hero, orphanage builder, ambassador, pipe smoker, author and all round jolly good chap!
Can’t confirm any of that… he just has that type of name!
March 4th, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Stop staring at me!! Strange woman with uneven eyes focused unevenly upon me! Back! Back I say! Good Lord woman, has Rex Gordon taught you no manners!?
Paw of God married Maw of God and birthed cock-eyed turban girl, and…what is this book even about? Vague blurb, creepy girl on cover. Not, repeat not, picking this up to find out. Stare all you want girl, I shall resist your powers!
March 4th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Is it a “Shaggy Dog” story, or a “Shaggy God” story… or both??
March 4th, 2013 at 2:26 pm
@SI: according to WikiPaedia, it’s a pen-name. His birth name is Stanley Bennett Hough. The book has a pen-name too, ‘Paw of God’ is also known as ‘Utopia Minus X’. Here’s a review at GoodReads.Com that makes it sound as bland as the model’s expression.
March 4th, 2013 at 2:30 pm
Patsy Kensit’s claim that Weight Watchers has a new method seems strangely scary even without someone looking like her having extreme acupuncture and partial mummification in this picture.
And she seems to be inside a box of chocolates.
March 4th, 2013 at 2:48 pm
Take your stinking paw off me, you damned dirty God!
March 4th, 2013 at 3:15 pm
@Dead Stuff – Wow… it’s almost like he didn’t want anyone finding him or the book! It’s that good! 🙂
I still don’t want to read about what the book is actually about. All I see right now is… interpretive dance!
March 4th, 2013 at 3:49 pm
The blurb makes such an extravagant claim in such tiny, tiny letters… it’s like it’s embarrassed.
March 4th, 2013 at 3:57 pm
“Don’t you think we should emphasize that teaser copy a tiny bit more?”
“No, no, it already says ‘superb’ and ‘man’s most exciting adventure.’ It’ll speak for itself. Besides, remember how Susan was so stoned before the photoshoot that she put one of her arms through the neck hole of the sweatshirt? Talk about a happy accident! And just yesterday, Roger told me that he left some of the proofs lying about and his little nephew drew some really clever antennae on one of them. The mustachioed ones seemed like a bit much, but the antennae are just dynamite! We don’t need to gild the lily. Leave those teaser lines small. In fact, go ahead and move them so far up the cover that they’ll be nearly cropped off.
March 4th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man,
That love my friend. And eye makeup. And dramatic eyebrows. And lipstick. And silly hats.
March 4th, 2013 at 5:58 pm
She looks like one of the girls from a Daft Punk video.
March 4th, 2013 at 8:25 pm
Thanks Anti-Sceptic, noe I have “Around the World” stuck in my heaf. Oh well, least it’s not Beyonce.
March 5th, 2013 at 6:05 pm
😉
March 17th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
“The… Paw”… Not cat-people again!
December 4th, 2013 at 10:48 pm
I don’t know which gets me more excited, the title or the cover art.
December 5th, 2013 at 7:13 am
Feel the excitement radiating from that cover… bask in it! Submit to it!
March 5th, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Venture inside GSS pub Caca — Most excrement in fiction
WHAT FOOD, PEG?
Reg. donor X
January 20th, 2017 at 12:59 pm
OK, this isn’t transcendently bad but it should get some sort of award for the least effort expended in the failed attempt to be merely adequate.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:26 pm
WORLD’S WORST RODNEY DANGERFIELD IMPRESSION.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:03 pm
The out of focus foreground is probably where the real excitement is.
January 20th, 2017 at 2:38 pm
The Wap of Dog
January 20th, 2017 at 3:46 pm
@A.R.Yngve (7)—I think it might be a “Doggy Shagged” story.
January 20th, 2017 at 4:59 pm
@A.R.Yngve—I think I might have cracked the code. Not until I thought a bit about the author’s name did it all start to makes sense.
January 20th, 2017 at 11:22 pm
‘Now, let’s see who the REAL paw of god is!’
‘Why, it’s Fatmah McGhee, chair of the city council!’
‘That’s right. She wanted to lower real estate values so she could buy cheap and sell dear.’
‘And I would’ve had enough money to start my own eyebrow shop…if it hadn’t been for you Tandem kids and your dog!’
‘Arf!’
January 21st, 2017 at 12:17 am
FWIW this book was apparently originally titled “UTOPIA MINUS X” before a whimsical publisher retitled it when it crossed the pond.
Reviews on the internet are surprisingly sparse. Apparently it didn’t fly off the book shelves under either name.
January 21st, 2017 at 12:53 am
@FB (22): Yes, there is an overwhelming apathy and ennui about this cover.
At least the original American cover had a) a title which fits the book and b) a painting of a spaceship, which one of the protagonists travels in.
I can’t imagine this cover intriguing anyone enough to buy it. Bad Show, Tandem Sir.
January 21st, 2017 at 6:09 pm
“Darling, your eyebrows are on FLEEK!”
June 21st, 2021 at 7:56 pm
God is an enormous bear, and we’re the bees in His honey.
June 22nd, 2021 at 4:02 am
I miss DSWBT and anon.
I haven’t missed this cover since we last saw it 4.5 years ago.
June 23rd, 2021 at 6:22 pm
Billie Eilish ignored the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!” warnings and went for another new image. It bombed miserably.
June 24th, 2021 at 4:47 am
@ARY: But she stuck with it for two videos anyway.