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Tat Wood Comments: Quick, Antoninus, bring the marshmallows!
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Tagged with: Ace Books • alien city • aliens • Andre Norton • death • dude • Ed Emshwiller • loincloth • monsters • muscles • spear • strange creature
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June 4th, 2015 at 9:44 am
“If I’m going to die in an crazy alien gladiator arena…I’m going to die happy. Bring me my loincloth!”
June 4th, 2015 at 10:46 am
“I don’t think Dress Down Friday should mean I get the crappy jobs!”
June 4th, 2015 at 11:04 am
“Get away, log grapple! This is my meal!”
June 4th, 2015 at 11:18 am
BTW, have you noticed the “Tag Chaos” suggests some great additions to the standard tagging:
– beard-wielding “behind you”
– “weapons bracers”
– “cat people cleavage”
– “cleavage cloaks”
– “cloaks daemons”
– “damsel daw”
– “evil fire”
– “fire font”
– “problems glow”
– “guns horses”
– “horse’s hunk”
– “hunk lasers”
– “loincloth magic” !
– “monsters moon”
– “moon muscles”
– “muscles once”
– “once you see it” planets
– “space suit strange”
– “suit strange creatures”
– “creatures’ swords ting!”
– “artist wtf”
June 4th, 2015 at 11:29 am
@GSS Admin – Emperor Bibliomancer gives thumbs-up to the great hover-over comment. Good Show Sir!
June 4th, 2015 at 11:57 am
…that’s actually his distended anus…
June 4th, 2015 at 2:39 pm
The discus hurler from the Space Olympics couldn’t beat the dragon and was burned to a crisp. Let’s hope the biathlete can do his best!
June 4th, 2015 at 2:42 pm
@bibliomancer – Why thank you! I occasionally get one funny hover-over! Every year or so 🙂
June 4th, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Not very good planning having a creature in a gladiatorial arena that can rear up and feed on the paying customers. I’m guessing all the combatants are lawyers so as to deter lawsuits.
June 4th, 2015 at 4:14 pm
The dragon’s killed Morph’s friend Chas!
June 4th, 2015 at 5:06 pm
@anon: How about ‘Ace Books aliens’…but their lawyers have them released on bond.
June 4th, 2015 at 8:53 pm
The blurb “Good, fast-moving, colorful” was of course lifted word for word from an automobile ad.
June 4th, 2015 at 9:51 pm
I think actual gladiators wore more armour than that . . .
June 5th, 2015 at 9:36 am
The sequels were:
– SANDALS & LOINCLOTHS
– SWEATY GLADIATORS
– THE LEATHER-CLAD CENTURION
and
– BIG SHINY SPEARS
June 5th, 2015 at 7:18 pm
STAR BORES
June 6th, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Two complete novels? Well you’ve lost me right there. I demand either three incomplete novels or seven unrelated fragmentary novellas, or I’m not wasting my time.
June 8th, 2015 at 3:26 am
Adjusting a dragon with a loose radiator cap can be tricky.
August 25th, 2015 at 1:15 am
Why is he holding his spear like a rifle? Methinks this pose was reused from something else, where Our Hero is holding the aforementioned rifle.
November 11th, 2015 at 11:41 am
Good? It was GOOD? How good? Somewhat?
December 11th, 2016 at 7:48 pm
‘Haa! Back, foul leviathan! You shall not have my tree fitty!’
August 4th, 2022 at 12:11 pm
@anon (#4): You are so right. I had not noticed. Now that I am aware, my personal favorite is “loincloth magic”
August 4th, 2022 at 8:49 pm
Petitioning for “beard-wielding”.
That loincloth reminds me of the leather jockstrap Russell Crowe wore, in a movie, which became a running gag on John Oliver’s show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Crowe%27s_jockstrap