Good Show Sir

Happy New Year 2020! Hard to believe but Good Show Sir is entering its third decade of curating a panoply of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers. And a third decade of passersby mistaking terrible covers for bad covers. And speaking of milestones, in this past year we celebrated our 10th Anniversary and 2,000th Cover! We threw such a big party bash I totally blacked out and can’t remember anything. I’m sure you all had a great time.

2019 saw the launch of the Good Show Sir Podcast (“Another fucking podcast” raves Podcast Aficionado magazine!)

And in 2019 GSS underwent a massive expansion, increasing our staff by 50% with the addition of the lovely and talented Social Media Strategist Tweet Jane! Our Twitter and Facebook presence has been spruced up and there you can find bonus pithy comments and troll abuse not seen on our blog page.

On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Our silver medal winner is the Piers Anthony centaur and pony show:

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Night Mare

And the bronze-medal winning:

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

My personal favourite of 2019:

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Skeppsbruten på Tschai

Tag Wizard’s fancied this mess. “No guts, no glory” he screamed:

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Encores in Fade

And Tweet Jane just friended this role model. “Making her my avatar” she vowed:

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The Deathless Amazon

Now back to recovering from the concussion I received from a fan angry about my Black Peter costume. He obviously misunderstood I was dressed ironically. Go figure.
— GSS Admin

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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BONUS COVER:

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Good Show Sir Comments: While dragging the Xmas decorations down from the attic we found our old stack of Argosy magazines. Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!

1. In this issue. Pictures of Mrs No-Shirt McGee!

2. We’re safe. The guys will never break through these parkas.

3. Last year the kids saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus. This year he’s locked and loaded.

4. Why cast a wizard spell when you can just shoot the bastard.

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Tweet Jane, GSS Admin and Tag Wizard bring a favourite
classic Dutch tradition of Santa Pope and Black Peter
to downtown London.
We drew quite a noisy crowd of fans!

Now let’s all sit back and enjoy a Star Wars Holiday Special!

(Average: 7.27 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Nobody gets out of 2019 alive!

You might remember this from here. And here.

Published 1978

(Average: 7.20 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Art Direction: The book is called The Moon People and …

O’Brien: Say no more boss. I’m reading your mind!

Published 1970

(Average: 5.42 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Ronald MacDonald was very pleased with himself: having divested himself of his clown outfit, he could still eat anything and show no ill-effects.

Published 1970

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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Marvin Comments: It’s the little things, like the crown over the K, that make this cover special.

Published 1962

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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Rick Deckard Comments: That’s a lot of neck.

Published 1973

(Average: 7.00 out of 10)

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Marcia Rose Comments: You would think a guy who can paint a halfway decent horse wouldn’t screw up a half-horse centaur.

You might remember this from here. But not here.

Published 1983

(Average: 7.28 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Tina was surprised at how much success the new choir director had in getting that deeper tone he had promised from the bass section.

Published 1982

(Average: 5.88 out of 10)

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Lord Kelvin Comments: Jane’s looking a little knock-kneed.

Published 1951

(Average: 8.08 out of 10)

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