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Click for full imageGood Show Sir Comments: “What unholy mind spawned the ultimate terrible cover art?”
Published 1978
(Average: 8.60 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: “What unholy mind spawned the ultimate terrible cover art?”
Published 1978
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November 5th, 2015 at 12:20 pm
Donald Trump’s constituency.
November 5th, 2015 at 12:21 pm
Why is he glowing? I would have thought the title would have earthed him.
November 5th, 2015 at 12:35 pm
Good Show Sir, Unknown Artist! I can assume he was paid in cash, in advance, for this masterpiece.
November 5th, 2015 at 12:53 pm
Is it weird that the thing most bugging me about this artwork is the absence of a propeller on his beanie?
November 5th, 2015 at 12:57 pm
1978 and he saw 90s Rave DJs coming? Impressive.
And is that really Brian Eno in the lycra top? With PKD’s using him as a character in ‘Valis’ it seems horribly likely.
November 5th, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Philip K. Dick must be turning in his grave like a kebab on a skewer, seing what could be considered for this great website (and also the Museum of Bad Art) a masterpiece.
November 5th, 2015 at 1:54 pm
I like the sort of steampunk design of the gun, and the not so subtle evocation of a straw up the nose.
November 5th, 2015 at 2:37 pm
Eastern European children’s television really has gone to the dogs.
November 5th, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Flow my tears … of laughter … the policeman said …
Just before he beat the crap out of this drug-addled punk.
November 5th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
Hmmm….a BAEN cover of Larry Niven’s tasp in use on an unsuspecting pers…unsuspecting roomful of BAEN babes would make my day.
Zap guns don’t zap people, people with zap guns zap people.
November 5th, 2015 at 5:08 pm
Is it weird that that gun evokes memories of the Noisy Cricket from “Men in Black”? Because the Noisy Cricket is clearly the more dangerous weapon here.
November 5th, 2015 at 9:04 pm
@Anna: Nosy cricket?
November 5th, 2015 at 11:04 pm
I think we’re missing the bigger question here – why does the die have a picture of Mr. Snuffleupagus?
November 5th, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Mamma
Just killed a man
Put a gun against my nose
Now the cover really blows
November 6th, 2015 at 9:27 am
A musical about Philip K. Dick’s books composed by Queen would be fun…
November 6th, 2015 at 1:05 pm
@AR Yngve: Homeopapes of the World?
(Full disclosure – I spent a couple of minutes thinking of ways to rewrite lyrics, but I got as far as ‘Tenement Funster’ and realised nothing useful rhymes with ‘conapt’)
November 6th, 2015 at 5:58 pm
@AR, TW: do androids dream of electric fat-bottomed girls? (Answer: yes, and GSS has the artwork to prove it so!)
November 6th, 2015 at 6:41 pm
@DSWBT: That’s a perfect name for that gun. The Nosy Cricket. Makes me laugh.
November 7th, 2015 at 8:31 am
Sung to the tune of Dick Van Dyke’s chimneysweeper song in MARY POPPINS:
Ubik-ety, Ubik-ety, Ubik-etee
The life of a dead man’s as hard as it can be…
November 7th, 2015 at 3:15 pm
@ A.R.Y: Super VALIS caballistic exegesis gnosis
November 7th, 2015 at 5:56 pm
@Tat: If you dare invoke it, you will suffer from psychosis!
November 9th, 2015 at 1:47 am
That wrestling jersey looks rather frilly round the edges.
November 9th, 2015 at 5:06 pm
@DS,@TAT—line 3:
Wearing beanie caps too tight will cause a brain thrombosis!
November 9th, 2015 at 9:21 pm
Is that a solder gun or a tattoo needle?
September 14th, 2017 at 4:52 am
“I’m Philip K, dick.”
September 27th, 2019 at 10:58 am
A gun so nice they labeled it thrice.
September 27th, 2019 at 7:23 pm
I’d watch out – according to the suitcase, LARS INC are behind this, and we know how litigious Metallica can be.
September 27th, 2019 at 11:50 pm
At first glance, I was certain that Beanie Man had the thing up his nose, which fit with his overall aspect.
And now I have that Mary Poppins song as an earworm, with occasional eruptions of “Enter Sandman”, and you can imagine how annoying that is.
(And what IS Snuffy doing there?)
September 28th, 2019 at 3:02 am
@DSWBT (wherever you are)—Way back at #1 you nailed it. Given the news of the day, I’m afraid that gun is now being loaded with more than happy powder.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:15 am
R.I.P. Zap Gun Dude 1978-2019.
Death by loading his vape pen with Fentanyl.