Oct 20
Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: The Man in the Iron Depends.
Published 1965
Ace Doubles, double the reading pleasure, double the bad cover art.
This is the flip side of last week’s book: Off Center
(Average: 7.46 out of 10)
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October 20th, 2015 at 12:40 pm
The newest Bond villain – The Man In The Inflatable Suit.
October 20th, 2015 at 1:45 pm
I bet he’s glad he packed his extra large undies today!
October 20th, 2015 at 2:05 pm
@SI – Yes, because he has a whole pants-load of terror behind him.
And I never saw a sci-fi handgun that looked more like a blow drier.
October 20th, 2015 at 2:40 pm
Notice that two of the “fright wig” tendrils are actually the shadows of his legs, which means the rest of the fright wig is the shadow of those pants.
October 20th, 2015 at 2:42 pm
By the way, is that a rhetorical question at the top of the cover, or maybe the lead-in to a joke?
Q: How do you find a space spy who substitutes perfectly for anyone in the universe?
A: Practice, practice.
October 20th, 2015 at 8:49 pm
What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a refugee from a Shakespeare production with bad costumes. He’s since become the star of a bad sci-fi movie, complete with hairdryers in use as gun props and an exceptionally unconvincing monster.
October 20th, 2015 at 9:51 pm
@BC:How do you find a space spy who substitutes perfectly for anyone in the universe?
Answer: Trick him into becoming Ricardo Montalbán, lure him into the studio, and listen to how he pronounces the penultimate word in ‘available even in soft Corinthian leather’. If he cannot pronounce that first syllable, eureka! You’ve caught him!
October 20th, 2015 at 10:14 pm
@Dead Stuff WBT—my god, man, another fan of the legendary Chrysler Cordoba!! I salute you thus: “Corrrrrrinthian!”
October 20th, 2015 at 11:09 pm
Techno Trousers® issues recall due to failure to contain toxic emissions.
October 20th, 2015 at 11:37 pm
@Bibliomancer/AnnaT: … so, we’ve got Shakespearian actors in puffy shirts, hairdryer props and unconvincing monsters…
Holy crap, it’s BLAKES 7!
October 21st, 2015 at 12:09 am
Educate, inform, entertain, and get a group of neighbours together for a hootenanny.
October 21st, 2015 at 4:45 am
Not exactly my kind of thing but ‘terror’ is over-pitching it a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhydian_(album)
October 21st, 2015 at 11:53 pm
The Four Terrors: Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti, Rithian.
October 22nd, 2015 at 5:17 am
Looks like Vidal Sassoon there is the perfect man to face down a giant hair tangle using only a blowdryer.
October 22nd, 2015 at 8:10 am
“Huzzah! I found my blowdrier! Now gather, ye hairy, at The Olde Hairdresser’s Shoppe… and I’ll make this a FA-bulous Renaissance Fair!”
November 26th, 2015 at 11:44 am
A free spacehat: How do you spy Ford Prefect in any hut? Venison substitute isn’t lye.
Error: Hit Her Taint
Hank Ingot, MD
January 10th, 2016 at 1:20 pm
A complete novel.
Is this information really necessary?
January 10th, 2016 at 4:20 pm
More like the Rithian Hair-or, amirite???
January 10th, 2016 at 7:34 pm
Yorick looks like he’s about to get plugged in http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=10984
April 25th, 2016 at 10:43 pm
Is he wearing a collared shirt and necktie over a roll-neck sweater and under a smoking jacket? Fashion MADNESS!
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:24 am
Protip: always hang your shadow to dry after washing, never tumble-dry it.
May 2nd, 2017 at 1:48 am
It’s even worse. His outfit actually looks all one piece, not shirt(s) and tights.
Meaning he’s wearing a V-neck jumpsuit with one of those decorative things you put on turkey legs over them.
So I HOPE he’s wearing diapers, because he’s not getting that ensemble undone to relieve himself quickly.