Jun 05
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Woahhh… yeah that LSD has just kicked in… SECRETARY… take this down. And by secretary I mean you sir, the man in the urinal next to me. A tomato plant… triceratops! What’s that, hand dryer elf? Yes you are right, it wouldn’t be complete unless it was multicoloured!
Published 1980 (also known as ‘A Messiah at the End of Time’)
(Average: 7.70 out of 10)
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June 5th, 2013 at 10:36 am
Mr. Dinosaur seems to be suffering from h.e.d. Horn erectile dysfunction, don’t ya know? Considering it is a Moorcock cover it is actually pretty low on WTFness. Rocketships and party painted dino, Mr. Moorcock probably saw this and said,”What, that’s it? Really?”
June 5th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Why Miss Ming, you seem to have transformed into a particolored triceratops.
(I learned the word “particolored” from GSS, where it has previously been applied to a unicorn: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2011/04/a-misterbob-mega-post/ )
June 5th, 2013 at 12:15 pm
So is the transformed “Miss Mavis Ming” the droopy dinosaur or the tentacled tree? Or maybe, Both! (Dun Dun Duhh!)
June 5th, 2013 at 12:22 pm
How dinosaurs dress up for Halloween.
June 5th, 2013 at 12:51 pm
“A poet of science fiction.” As evidence of his standing we have alliteration: Michael Moorcock, The TransforMation of Miss Mavis Ming. Maybe many more ems might magnify Mr. Moorcock’s multiple em mastery. Then Mr. Moorcock would truly have … eminence!
June 5th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
Triceratops by Arcimboldo—
http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org
June 5th, 2013 at 2:22 pm
Actually, the quote from The Sunday Times was meant for “Filthy Limericks About Naked Alien Chicks” by Reginald Bogscrotum. The copy artist made an honest and understandable mistake.
June 5th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
@B. Chiclitz — also, rocketship by Arcimboldo.
June 5th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Because the photo is a bit blurry, I read the author as Michael Oorcock. I am wondering why there’s a huge star above the end of his surname – and expected to see a footnote at the bottom.
And old Triceratopsy there has an awfully drippy beak.
June 5th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
@Phil, I am imagining that, before the transformation, Miss Ming looked like Ethel Merman.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XFKC1952L.jpg
June 5th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
@FearofMusic 7—you mean, this sort of limerick?
A Poet of Science Fiction
Had a good time with his diction,
But could not stem the wrath
Of the Babe from Sarnath
For his tiny tool produced no friction.
June 5th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Tom @5: the ‘M’ of ‘Moorcock’ is pretty well camoflaged. In fact, the author’s name looks rather like ‘Michael Oorcock’.
June 5th, 2013 at 5:00 pm
@B.Chiclitz #11. Mr. Bogscrotum had best watch himself. A challenger to his title has entered the fray.
June 5th, 2013 at 6:30 pm
Transformational Miss Mavis Ming
Said the dinosaur wasn’t her thing
She claimed, causing shock
That she needed Moorcock
To add to her sex life some Ting!
June 5th, 2013 at 7:03 pm
@B’mancer 14—
😉
June 5th, 2013 at 7:06 pm
@B. Chiclitz — 🙂
June 5th, 2013 at 8:01 pm
@Bibliomancer re.#14
Bravo, sir. Bravo indeed.
June 5th, 2013 at 8:28 pm
This is an okay cover. You’re reaching now, just like you do when you pick on the Hugh Cook covers. For shame, sir,
June 5th, 2013 at 8:38 pm
MICHAEL OORCOCK (1948 – 2000) was a lesser-known Dutch writer. He gained a small but devout cult following in the Netherlands with his novels Behooldje Thieje Maaan and Thije Finaalje Prograam.
He was more known to the public as a member of the Dutch rock group Haawkvind.
June 5th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
Now where is that center text option?
(cntrl-C)…nope.
(cntrl-X), crap. Ahh forget it, nobody will notice anyhow.
June 5th, 2013 at 9:40 pm
I don’t call a day-glo orange spray paint job a transformation, Mavis. It’s a pity Trinny and Susannah sank without trace.
June 6th, 2013 at 12:56 am
Reptiles here,
Dinos there,
Bokrugs’ kin are everywhere.
Sarnath woman is mine! No poet can please a woman who hasstroked the scaly beast.
June 6th, 2013 at 4:29 am
@A.R.Yngve 17—RE: Michael Oorcock . . . .
“Michael” is actually the name of a well-known Eunuch and member of a Dutch Underground Rock Group, “de castraten.” When the full name is posed as a question to the Transformational Miss Ming, it all sort of makes sense.
June 6th, 2013 at 10:32 am
In fact, an ‘oorcock’ is a kitchen hand in Dutch restaurants: he’s the guy who cooks ears.
June 6th, 2013 at 7:53 pm
Since this is a family-friendly blog, I shudder to reveal that “Oorcock” was also the title of Paul Verhoeven’s first short film (which had him thrown out of film school)…
June 6th, 2013 at 8:47 pm
So is Miss Ming a dinosaur and is turning into a squash; or was she a squash and got turned into a dinosaur?
June 7th, 2013 at 6:31 am
And then Miss Ming sued the beauty spa into oblivion, living out the rest of her unpleasantly scaly days in seclusion, in a mansion she bought with part of the settlement. Rumor has it she’d have hung herself within the first year if her new self had had fingers with which to tie the knots.
The Moral of the Story: Avoid total makeovers. If they actually make you over totally, odds are you’ll hate the results.
July 30th, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Having actually read this book, I can tell you that the multicoloured triceratops is made of flavoured jelly as part of a party ensemble by one of the minor characters, the party forming a backdrop to the titular transformation…
August 25th, 2015 at 3:05 am
Clearly this unfortunate triceratops was ambushed by a gang of dinosaur painters. It is rude and demeaning to these creatures to make them look ridiculous by painting them ridiculous colours. Shame on you.