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Click full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: Remember that time you walked in on your parents as they were making your brother? Yeah… if you could sum up all those feelings and put it into the expressions of the main characters, who must be wearing caped onesies. Instant classic… though you might need some more therapy afterwards.
Published 1986
Many thanks to Paul D!
(Average: 7.69 out of 10)
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September 23rd, 2013 at 10:33 am
The title works best if you take the angle of the type as a guide to whether to say the words with a rising or a falling intonation. Like Chinese.
September 23rd, 2013 at 10:39 am
Is Zelerod a sort of fantasy Dynorod?
And can I say that those onesies must have taken some expert tailoring. Getting the holes in the right places for those tentacles must have taken real skill and more than one fitting.
September 23rd, 2013 at 11:15 am
“Quick, I think they’ve noticed we stole their noodles!”
September 23rd, 2013 at 11:36 am
Well, I’ll say this much:Walter Velez has a distinctive style. That sort of limited detail/comic art style that manages to make scemes of action feel static. He’s a clever boy, he is.
September 23rd, 2013 at 11:48 am
At the same instant, Francine and Biff realized their capes were part of their costumes…making the chains round their necks…superfluous!!!
September 23rd, 2013 at 11:56 am
Front row of horsemen, far right: it’s Barry Bostwick in ‘Megaforce’. That explains the leisurewear uniforms but not the horses.
September 23rd, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Series pitch to publisher: Slan meets, well, Chick Fic in general. But it’s not Slan. It’s different – really. It’s got horses.
September 23rd, 2013 at 1:16 pm
BEHIND YOU! BEHIND YOU! BEHIND YOU!
September 23rd, 2013 at 1:22 pm
Clearly, I am the worst pantomime audient.
Thanks Biblio 😉
September 23rd, 2013 at 1:40 pm
No problem Tag Wizard, that’s what I’m here for. Remember, many of our fallen commentators fought and died for that tag.
September 23rd, 2013 at 1:47 pm
*salutes the fallen commentators*
And by fallen, you mean… they were hunted down by men on horses while they wearing cape onesies… right?
September 23rd, 2013 at 2:13 pm
@SI — Yes. Commentators felled by blind-sided attacks….without warning!
September 23rd, 2013 at 4:16 pm
Which horse is yours? The brown one.
September 23rd, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Thank you, Walter Velez.
Incidentally, Bibliomancer, I have a cover that I need to submit that is also by Walter Velez and also has me screaming “BEHIND YOU!” Though in that case, it’s the character’s look of horror as he sees what is behind YOU.
September 23rd, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Shouldn’t there be a verb or at least some indication of what the “MUTATED HUMANS OF EARTH” are up to or can look forward to or have already done to get the horsemen so angry?
Mutated humans of Earth unite!
You have nothing to lose but your tentacles.
September 23rd, 2013 at 7:51 pm
@Adam Roberts—You omitted to tell us that to achieve the proper infection on “Doöm†we would need to imitate that inebriate scholar H. Simpson. Duh•uhm
Sorry, it’s late and I’ve just spent far, far too many hours researching newspaper archives about Manhattan, NY fires (1880-1904). I’ll try harder to be witty and erudite tomorrow.
September 23rd, 2013 at 8:25 pm
@Kripslod: I think John Laurie may be able to point you in the right direction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7RIgs3eygo
September 23rd, 2013 at 8:55 pm
I like to think Bibliomancer is referring to me when speaking of people who fought and died for the BEHIND YOU tag. I’m certainly pleased to see it deployed correctly here. (I hear, Tag Wizard, that it will drop off if you don’t use it.)
I’m rather mystified by how the top half of the man appears to be standing still, but his legs seem to have other ideas.
September 23rd, 2013 at 9:00 pm
@kripslod: I believe it’s pronounced something like:
DEER MOLD ZOOS
SO MELDED ORZO
LO! DOMED ZEROES!
ODDER EL ZOOMS
ZERO ODD MOLES
ELDERS MOD ZOO
LED DORM OOZES
ZED’S ROOM DOLE
DO MORELS DOZE?
ZOE DOLED S’MORE
September 23rd, 2013 at 9:17 pm
@Tat Wood—Having been born south of the 40th parallel–early in my life, I listened doubtfully to those who added and pronounced the “u†in favorite, labor, and flavor. We all know it should be Fafe•rit, lay•ber, and flay•fer. As I grew older my mother instilled in me an appreciation of Commonwealth English. Thank you for the link. I now know how to properly pro-nounce doom.
On a side note, in my recent studies of old New York area newspapers, I discovered that, at least in 19th century Brooklyn, you could still spell ‘Center’ as ‘Centre’
Hoow noow?
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org
September 23rd, 2013 at 9:37 pm
I am tired! I meant to type 39th not 40th parallel.
As we all know, the 39th parallel is the longest and most peaceful boarder in all the world.
However, not many know that the picture depicted on this book is actually showing the end of a little talked about incident in US-Canada relationships.
In 1972 a pair of Boonville, NY based Fenians tried to unsuccessfully and idiotically introduce snakes into Ontario.
September 24th, 2013 at 3:56 am
Anyone know what “sime/gen” is? Just curious.
September 24th, 2013 at 5:34 am
Someone forgot to take their worm medicine.
September 24th, 2013 at 9:52 am
The two customers who sparked off the tragic Tailor Riots of 2089.
September 24th, 2013 at 11:39 am
@Jane: it seems ‘Sime/Gen’ is a book series about people who have those tentacles coming off of their bodies…we really need a tag for it. All I know is that the artists don’t ever seem to get it right what they look like.
Never read them myself, but I don’t want to leave you in the lurch until a fan happens to drift this way.
September 24th, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Looking at the background…background…background…background…background…background…background…background…background…background…
/me realizes hours have passed and hits the ‘submit’ button
August 25th, 2015 at 12:35 am
@Kripslod: That’s the 49th parallel.
Seriously, what is with that guy’s face? His female associate looks kind of appropriately concerned with her safety, but he looks like he’s shouting angrily . . . or something. And are those tentacles part of their clothes or part of them?
November 29th, 2016 at 11:53 am
Him: “Raiding the horse lords eel farm will be easy you said. We’ll just smuggle the eels out in our sleeves you said”
Her: “Stop complaining and run faster!”
November 29th, 2016 at 4:34 pm
The cover artist, in his/her defense, bravely took on the Herculean task to make characters with ultra-creepy hands seem like something you’d want to read about.
October 23rd, 2020 at 11:17 pm
The guy in blue appears to be watching the valet drive his new Porsche over a curb and into a cement planter.
January 16th, 2022 at 2:18 pm
Bokrug chuckles and settles in with a bag of popcorn to watch amateurs attempt the whole DOOM thing.