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Click for full imageJoachim Comments: 80s cyberpunk covers are generally bad but this one is a special kind of bad…
Published 1990
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(Average: 8.13 out of 10)
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Joachim Comments: 80s cyberpunk covers are generally bad but this one is a special kind of bad…
Published 1990
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September 29th, 2014 at 9:06 am
What happened to that poor woman’s legs? And why is she out with Dexy and one of his Midnight Runners?
September 29th, 2014 at 10:05 am
“OK GANG! Let’s hit the discotheque! BUUURRRRRRRRRRmmmmm BURRRRRRRRRRRM BRRRRRRRRRR BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”
September 29th, 2014 at 10:43 am
It seems Neil Gaiman is practicing his tightrope skills with a couple of pals. On the streets of Blackpool.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:01 am
Beneath the streets eh… They’re not even on the streets!
September 29th, 2014 at 11:26 am
High and low voltages are so last year! What you must have is bad voltage!
September 29th, 2014 at 11:51 am
If I should die think only this of me
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever Nottingham’s Rock City in 1985
September 29th, 2014 at 12:52 pm
Juxtaposition eh? Yawn.
September 29th, 2014 at 12:59 pm
@Phil, @Tat:
I´d like to settle the locale discussion by pointing to the clearly visible Eiffel Tower in the background.
Obviously they´re in Vegas.
September 29th, 2014 at 1:28 pm
♪ We’re off to see the Wizard! The wonderful Wizard of punk! ♪
September 29th, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Eat your heart out, David Blaine!
September 29th, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Maglev boots by Jimmy Choo Choo.
September 29th, 2014 at 2:20 pm
Yes, a Rammstein cover of ‘Walking on Sunshine’ would totally work.
September 29th, 2014 at 2:40 pm
INVISIBLE BIKER GANG.
@fred: this needs to happen.
September 29th, 2014 at 2:42 pm
Another version of this book was previously featured on GSS here. I _think_ I prefer the ‘ghostbusters’ version but honestly it’s a toss up. Poor Jonathan Littel, his publishers must not have loved him very much.
September 29th, 2014 at 3:15 pm
‘Inside of us, we both know you belong with Voltage. You’re part of his work, the badness that keeps him going. If that gang leaves the ground and you’re not with them, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.’
‘But wought about ussss?’
‘We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you turned of noclip. We got it back last night.’
September 29th, 2014 at 8:26 pm
The blurb ought to read “tomorrow’s world ABOVE the streets…”
(They call me Captain Obvious!)
September 29th, 2014 at 9:34 pm
Bad Voltage sounds like a name of a band Superman would fight.
They look like one, too!
September 29th, 2014 at 9:54 pm
That Eiffel Tower was drawn by somebody who very badly wanted to see one.
Also: I can see Dream and Death going for outfits like that, but Destiny should really know better.
September 29th, 2014 at 11:31 pm
@Claire: ‘Come on, I lean to loo rye ay…’
September 30th, 2014 at 6:32 am
@dead stuff. I guess these other young uns don’t remember the glory (and inexplicable lyrics) of the immortal Runners 😉
September 30th, 2014 at 7:36 am
Visit Cyberpunk City, and see the wonders of tomorrow…
– See our new Ehfel Tower! Not as tall as the real Eiffel Tower, but almost as beautiful!
– See our Hover-Punks glide above the streets, throw bottles and urinate above doorways!
– Experience our uniquely polluted air — smells like nothing you’ve ever been sick from before!
September 30th, 2014 at 12:09 pm
@Claire, Dead Stuff: I spent most of the morning trying to think of a way to work in a reference to ‘Thankfully, Not Living in Yorkshire It Doesn’t Apply’. (American readers may wish to know that Kev’s safe sex anthem ‘Come On Eileen’ was their antepenultimate hit, not their first).
October 4th, 2014 at 9:42 am
@Claire. What happened to her legs, you ask? I refer you to the original version of the blurb: “They’re wired for speed, living high and crashing hard in tomorrow’s world beneath the streets.”
October 4th, 2014 at 1:26 pm
That would be a great title for a pif – ‘Bad voltage’ could be the sequel to ‘Powerful stuff’.
October 4th, 2014 at 4:47 pm
Ah, the future as seen by the past: the futuristic (to the late nineteenth century) Tour Eiffel and ‘eighties punk dollies doing the “I just took up roller skating” look.
Never has the Eiffel Tower looked less like the Eiffel Tower.
October 4th, 2014 at 7:04 pm
@Alessandra: I disagree. Here, it looks like former Vice President Richard Cheney.
January 25th, 2015 at 11:31 pm
The punks look like they’re dancing badly in midair. Not to mention the utterly trippy atmosphere.
Yet another cover that was clearly Made On Drugsâ„¢.