Sep 18
Click for full imageE’s Art Direction: If you could work a lime green fur shawl and a jedi-master rip off in there, that’d be great.
Published 1980
(Average: 6.64 out of 10)
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E’s Art Direction: If you could work a lime green fur shawl and a jedi-master rip off in there, that’d be great.
Published 1980
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September 18th, 2013 at 10:05 am
I’m going to rather charitably assume the artist was aiming for a comic book style here. Green fuzzy shawl poofster man has a rather malformed head, and a sword(?) made of vanilla taffy.
More importantly, is his pirate posing opponent wielding a guitar?
If this is an actual scene from the book, it must take several chapters to describe.
September 18th, 2013 at 10:37 am
“You just try playing Kumbaya again.”
September 18th, 2013 at 10:41 am
He can’t use the guitar in combat because his waistcoat prevents him from moving his shoulders. However, the other guy’s torso-wear isn’t actually green. He simply moves so slowly that moss grows on him.
That’s right, our first Sloth-Person, mere hours after his Tag was denied him. No wonder he’s in a fightin’ mood.
September 18th, 2013 at 10:46 am
No, that’s it! Sloth-Barbarian is the gnomon on Obi-Wan’s action-figure sundial. It’s just coming up to space-buggy-o’clock, and in an hour it’ll be Jim West O’Clock.
September 18th, 2013 at 11:44 am
Full dust jacket: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/13/CHNGLNGQZN1980.jpg
Paperback with blurbs: http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/1c/CHNGLNG1980.jpg
September 18th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
@ The Tag Wizard. Codpiece. (Gold plated, no less.)
September 18th, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Obi-wannabe to guitar-fighter: “This isn’t the poofster warrior you are looking for”.
September 18th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
What we’re seeing here is the first reaction of the test group to the prototype Official Smart* [automobile] Pull-Behind Grocery Trailer.
“The paradigm of city driving it is now forever Changeling!â€
*Trade-Mark of Daimler AG it is
September 18th, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Ooh Tom H, I don’t know, I just don’t know.
It looks like it’s the Conan-type fur which being held in place by the Warrior Utility Belt (buy today on 555-0-WARRIOR), and said belt’s Pterugal strips are, by pure happenstance, framing the lower rug in a suggestive manner.
Or maybe I just can’t handle the truth.
…what is Sloth-Barbarian staring at so intently, anyway? Eew. No.
September 18th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
“I’ll rest my hand on my improbably high waist, you stand like an invisible man has grabbed you from behind.”
September 18th, 2013 at 2:34 pm
What climatic conditions could possibly require one to wear thick fur on the shoulders yet simultaneously bear one’s chest and torso? Is it perhaps a very hot planet with an annoying cold draft?
September 18th, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Or do I mean “draught” ?
September 18th, 2013 at 2:52 pm
Nice try, giving me the “Behind You” look! I’ll not fall for it. I seriously doubt there’s a giant Nestor in a blue cowl lurking at my rear. Now according to this script I have cleverly tucked into my massive utility belt, you’re supposed to say “I’m wearing two different colored boots for a reason, one you will soon discover.” And I’m supposed to laugh knowingly, yet with a soupçon of apprehension.
September 18th, 2013 at 4:25 pm
Centre, there’s a bat with a ‘Wrong turn, get me OUT OF HERE!’ look about him.
September 18th, 2013 at 5:01 pm
What a fool, bringing a sword for dueling banjos …
September 18th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Green replaces orange as the new black. I want me a flying raptor-cycle.
September 18th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
I have this book, with this exact cover. Have had it since I was a kid. Now get off my lawn!!!
September 18th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
“Aha! So YOU’re the fiend who has been kidnapping and mutating Eagle Transporters from the Alpha Moonbase!”
September 19th, 2013 at 12:13 am
Jimmy the RockLord looks with approval upon the new recruits for his Village People tribute group.
September 20th, 2013 at 4:05 am
Hats off to you B. Chiclitz for using soupçon in your reply.
September 20th, 2013 at 4:44 am
Thanks, Ian, although it pales beside “Narwhals upon the vestry.”
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