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Click for full imageTat Wood Comments: The back-cover blurb begins with the word WHY? in big letters, further comment is superfluous.
Published 1983 (First Published with this cover 1971)
(Average: 6.50 out of 10)
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Tat Wood Comments: The back-cover blurb begins with the word WHY? in big letters, further comment is superfluous.
Published 1983 (First Published with this cover 1971)
(Average: 6.50 out of 10)Loading...
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June 7th, 2013 at 9:49 am
The worlds beyond 2001! In 2013, we will all be farting coloured clouds!
June 7th, 2013 at 10:21 am
“You were wrong, Timothy Leary, this cheese I found under the sink works just as well!”
June 7th, 2013 at 11:06 am
‘Yes I know my penis looks like a pirate woman with a door tattoed on her chest. Is that a problem for you?’
June 7th, 2013 at 1:02 pm
I’m disappointed that here in the world beyond 2001 you don’t see dudes wearing goldfish-bowl space helmets in naked yoga classes.
June 7th, 2013 at 1:28 pm
What do you mean you don’t see…ohhhh. Perhaps that’s why everyone points and giggles when I do Downward Facing Dog.
June 7th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
In the first draft of the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Space Baby grew up to be a seven-foot-four-inch man, who ran around naked wearing a feathered space helmet, and begging for piggyback rides from tiny, one-eyed, eight-year-old girls in scenic, airbrushed dresses. How sad that we ended up with a story about a joint Russian-American mission instead.
June 7th, 2013 at 2:36 pm
‘Arr, Jim Lad! Me shiver your timber!’
June 7th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
What’s with the diagonal scar-like lines on his chest? TW, isn’t this, along with the downward-pointing nips, ripe for a “weird pecs” tag?
June 7th, 2013 at 5:23 pm
Certainly is, B., certainly is! I think I’ve become innoculated against the jarring sight of weird pecs, there are so many.
June 7th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
I have this particular book though I don’t think I’ve set eyes on it for a few years. I recalled the look of the title, the white background, and the rainbow flourishes around the seated man’s head. The rest of the weirdness that goes on below shoulder level had slid clean out of my mind.
June 7th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
More weird anatomy. Little penis thumbs and big scrotum palms. With the testicles turned ninety degrees. Ouch.
June 7th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
I’ve been enjoying Good Show Sir from the safety of anonymous lurkerdom for a long time, but this post has finally compelled me to emerge into the light to say, This site really needs an “It’s the drugs” tag.
June 7th, 2013 at 10:21 pm
@Tom Hering—ouch is right! However I do not believe we should petition Tag Wizard for a “weird testicles” tag. That may be going an organ too far.
And @Kyra, as far as the drugs go, I think the posters sort of automatically supply that line of thought, being well versed in all the “signs” (welcome, by the way, to the light of day).
June 7th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
@Kyra — You can slap the “it’s the drugs” tag on every cover printed between 1967 and 1974.
Tag Wizard — Is it possible to have a dozen or so of your staff work on that this weekend? Perhaps all of your interns can help out also. Thanks a million.
June 8th, 2013 at 12:05 am
Count me out for that bit of fun. My mind is still scarred from the quest for weird pecs. I am still having man boob nightmares. Don’t need any other nasty bits inserting themselves into my dreams.
Or anywhere else for that matter.
June 8th, 2013 at 6:06 am
“My inner Pirate Child ate a door, and now I am also part flower, but only in the neck.”
June 8th, 2013 at 2:49 pm
I’m looking at what the guy in the space helmet is looking at, and I see that in this world beyond 2001, the line “My God, it’s full of stars!” has been replaced by “My God, it’s full of doo doo!”
June 8th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
“Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?”
“Affirmative, Naked Man. I read you.”
“Open the Pirate Girl door, HAL.”
“I’m sorry, Naked Man. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
“What’s the problem?”
“I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.”
“What are you talking about, HAL?”
“Good Show Sir is too important for me to allow you to expose what is obviously behind the door.”
“Uh, er, I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL.”
June 9th, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Lots of Baby Boomers have large gaps in their memories of the 1970s.
We used to blame this on drugs.
This cover explains the true reason: Boomers were so embarrassed by the book and album covers of the 70s, they repressed their memories of them.
June 10th, 2013 at 3:37 am
I dunno, A.R. A few of the artsy and/or experimental covers of the late ’60s and early ’70s were embarrassing, but not nearly as embarrassing as what followed. The revival of pulp imagery. A traditional illustration style that was so literal in its depictions, you had to wonder if a virus that wipes out expressiveness had escaped from a lab somewhere. Awfully regressive stuff to slap on the covers of forward-looking books.
June 10th, 2013 at 7:25 am
“Good Show Sir is too important for me to allow you to expose what is obviously behind the door.â€
Unless those two rocks/dust clouds/tumbleweeds/shrubberies flanking the door are entirely coincidental, isn’t behind the door, it IS the door. As in, “Come to the door of enlightenment! Also, ignore how everyone who already did is calling it the door of disappointment, they’re just crazy!”
June 10th, 2013 at 8:57 am
@Biblio — Apologies for the delay in executing the trivial task of searching for all occurences of publication dates between the years 1967 and 1974 (inclusive), appending them with the proposed pharmaceutical tag; I spent all weekend locked deep inside a Swiss mountain at the Wizard’s Convention, but will get on it as soon as the Dimension Door opens again.
June 10th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
If this is what people expect when they become astronauts-in-training, their first real space trip is bound to become a disappointment….
June 10th, 2013 at 6:44 pm
“A dazzling journey to the worlds beyond 2001″… into the awesome future of 2013!
June 18th, 2013 at 1:07 am
Spider and Rudi may well have found their new sound.
June 26th, 2013 at 1:18 am
dang, the door is green. If it was blue and had a red light on top we’d know just what was going on
September 1st, 2016 at 2:29 am
@Sarah J: It may well explain why Shakin’ Stevens was so curious.
December 29th, 2016 at 2:16 am
Behind the Green Door, indeed.