Feb 21
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: We need something to symbolise life… like a man breaking out of a box, a box that’s sort of shaped like a man. I know! Put Alfred Hickcock’s head on that box as a hunky man breaks free! What doesn’t that say about life?
Published 1983 or 1986
(Average: 6.47 out of 10)
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February 21st, 2014 at 10:15 am
Is that the title or a Marvel comics-esque sound effect?
February 21st, 2014 at 11:18 am
Shouldn’t that be KERRASHH!! …?
February 21st, 2014 at 12:27 pm
The mime had a recurring dream.
February 21st, 2014 at 1:19 pm
Looks like his willy broke off too. Maybe he can glue it back on.
February 21st, 2014 at 1:47 pm
“Far-future”. I’m going for “unflinchingly realistic portrayal of life in the 80s”.
February 21st, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Well you guys, I thought I was happy in my job at Amalgamated Mortgage Foreclosers, but then I saw this cover and I was inspired to quit my job and spend my life traveling the world to paint pictures of babies. Take this cover on the bus?? I’ve taken this cover on Himalayan treks and displayed it proudly to grim, frost bitten sherpas. I’ve seen tough men, hardened criminals, serving out life sentences in African prisons, fall to their knees and say, “Oh yeah, I used to read a lot of Piers Anthony when I was growing up!”
February 21st, 2014 at 1:55 pm
Far-future Raskolnikov has been working out. He looks really ripped.
February 21st, 2014 at 2:03 pm
The problem with “Chthon the Unpronounceable” was that he always came apart when things got tough.
February 21st, 2014 at 3:17 pm
is this an actual classic, or a self-proclaimed classic? perhaps the publisher has taken a page from the ubbar guide to greatness and applied it here. i think i shall follow suit in my own life. from henceforth i am the all being, master of time, space, and dimension.oh, and i play banjo and tap dance as well. available for parties and all your entertainment needs.
and now i have alice in chains stuck in my head. damn you, unknown cover artist!
February 21st, 2014 at 4:33 pm
Far-future building codes seem rather inadequate if a naked unraveling guy can bring down a building with just his hands.
February 21st, 2014 at 5:33 pm
He seems to be wearing a slightly outsized papier-mache head of former ‘Panorama’ host Robert Kee. I know they had a sort of rivalry with ‘World in Action’ back then but this seems as if he’s trying to smash up their Vitruvian Man logo.
(Apologies to anyone not raised on 70s British current-affairs shows; I’m several kinds of wonk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4LCieQ7UiM).
February 21st, 2014 at 6:21 pm
Say what you will about Pierce Anthony, but you have to admire his minimalistic approach to vowels.
February 22nd, 2014 at 6:33 am
*CHTHON!*
– Gesundheit!
August 25th, 2015 at 1:39 am
The title makes me think it’s some kind of Cthulhu ripoff. The cover, in the proud tradition of surrealist covers, does not help in determining anything whatsoever about the plot.