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Click for full imageLauren Comments: A giant worm-ape? Helping the humans with their dream of reaching the moon.
Published 1974
(Average: 8.55 out of 10)
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Lauren Comments: A giant worm-ape? Helping the humans with their dream of reaching the moon.
Published 1974
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July 28th, 2014 at 10:34 am
Sticking your tongue out doesn’t make you look intelligent, as, um, some celebrity or other could tell you, whassername, it’s on the tip of my…
July 28th, 2014 at 11:06 am
That beast looks to have rather high blood pressure.
July 28th, 2014 at 11:08 am
What happens when intelligence levels of all mammals are jumped by a factor of five!
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld isn’t affected in the least.
July 28th, 2014 at 11:22 am
That scaly lizard-thing ain’t no mammal.
July 28th, 2014 at 11:25 am
“It’s called ‘Brain Wave’, so let’s go with a badly-drawn creature with the most idiotic expression possible on its face.”
July 28th, 2014 at 12:27 pm
Wave: boats ride on waves, don’t they?
Brain: things inside heads.
Brainwave: a boat on top of someone’s head. Obvious really.
Whose head? The Soup Dragon’s.
Whose boat? Iggle-Piggle’s.
(The book, if I remember rightly, is about a cloud between Earth and the sun that’s kept us stupid and that suddenly clears, allowing housewives to become smart but stay at home doing housework, then it comes back and nobody minds much. There’s a good book to be written about this premise – a sort of global ‘Flowers for Algernon’ or ‘Camp Concentration’ – but this ain’t it.)
July 28th, 2014 at 1:31 pm
No matter how many times I read this cover, I get to FIVE! and cannot recall anything I have just read. Zero comprehension. So , I read it again.
July 28th, 2014 at 3:14 pm
!>?. What!? I’m guessing a full ep of Jeopardy would last 5 minutes with commercials.
July 28th, 2014 at 3:57 pm
Who is this “factor of five” and why does she like to jump over the intelligence level of mammals? Is she from the starship Voyager, wait that was Seven of Nine…
This cover has a definate childrens book vibe to it. What happens if you mix “Where the Wild Things Are” with “James and the Giant Peach”?
July 28th, 2014 at 6:49 pm
@Tat: Begging your pardon, but that looks more like an aroid flower tucked behind the soup dragon’s ear.
July 28th, 2014 at 9:29 pm
That’s one awkwardly long title. “Brain Wave” is okay, but the rest is a bit drawn out.
July 29th, 2014 at 1:54 pm
Soup Dragon. Simply wonderful. I love it. Thank-you Tat 🙂
July 30th, 2014 at 3:53 am
Why is there a human holding a moon?? What does holding a moon have to do with brain waves??
July 31st, 2014 at 1:21 pm
Showed this to my nine year old nephew. I think I shall be turning to him for future comments. His reaction:
“That’s stupid. It has people eyes. And a tiny head. Where does it keep its brain? And how can it come out of the ground like that without smashing its face? And five times stupid still isn’t very smart is it? ”
I would value his opinion even more if he didn’t think Piers Anthony was a way better writer than Tolkien. Kids*shrugs*
August 6th, 2014 at 3:09 am
I’ve read this novel, and that cover is such a complete non-sequitur that it goes past funny into not-funny and then back to funny again. The cover artist should have stayed away from the brown acid.
August 11th, 2014 at 5:52 pm
Shouldn’t that cover be on the book Where The Wild Things Are…??
September 7th, 2014 at 4:01 pm
They forgot the snow flake.
December 17th, 2015 at 6:58 pm
This is even worse than your average child’s crayon drawing, because when kids do art with crayons and stick figures, they’re putting their all into it, whereas this was done by an adult, a professional artist, who was actually getting paid money for it.
It’s also a nightmarish hybrid of Homo sapiens and Tyrannosaurus rex. What.