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Click for full imageHammy Comments: Is this ridiculous enough?
Published 1992
(Average: 6.45 out of 10)
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Hammy Comments: Is this ridiculous enough?
Published 1992
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November 20th, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Anglia Television’s reboot of ‘Stingray’.
November 20th, 2015 at 2:45 pm
Spongebob has a new friend!
November 20th, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Good thing that fish is covering her… no, wait, do mermaids even have… ??? Although, she has flesh-colored scales????
November 20th, 2015 at 2:58 pm
@Tom Noir – The artist painted in the fish because he also didn’t know mermaid anatomy details.
A Barclay Shaw cover. Two days in a row, I notice.
November 20th, 2015 at 3:04 pm
It’s either an artistic failure, or Ms Mermaid has a heterocercal tail and is therefore part shark. I’m equivocating, because it would be rather like Mr. Anthony to imply that there isn’t a bone in her body…yet. 😉
November 20th, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Also, does the gentleman have a bicycle seat shoved up his bum? There’s a joke to be made of it, but I’ll leave that joke to other great minds.
November 20th, 2015 at 3:17 pm
@ Dead Stuff – I’m thinking of fish, men & bicycles, but I don’t know what order to put them in.
A bicycle needs a fish like a man? No wait.
November 20th, 2015 at 3:44 pm
@Noel:
Women!
Men!
Fish!
Bicycles!
November 20th, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Original wraparound painting sans Tour de WTF.
http://artie.com/cm/art/artists/barclayshaw/mercycle.jpg
Wraparound with de WTF.
http://www.apocalypsebooks.com/img/cover/mercycle.jpg
November 20th, 2015 at 5:57 pm
WANTED: GIT. National Oceanography Centre are looking for a useless waste of a human life for our expedition off the end of the pier at Brighton. Propensity for social awkwardness essential. Must be denser than water, provide own transport. Send resume and essay describing which character from Xanth you most resemble to: 20/11 ‘The Covers’, G55 C0K.
November 20th, 2015 at 6:11 pm
@DSWBT: Personally, I’m going with “artistic failure” for what’s wrong with Ms. Mermaid’s tail. I suspect it may be a birth defect.
And our bicycling hero is probably going to drown if he stays underwater for a moment longer.
@Tag Wizard: May I suggest “devil’s dumplings”?
November 20th, 2015 at 6:18 pm
There’s something fishy about this cover.
(Well, somebody had to say it.)
November 20th, 2015 at 7:12 pm
By the way, I think she has just given birth to that green fish. And, given the color of bike boy’s shirt, I think we know who the father is!
November 20th, 2015 at 7:53 pm
“Dad! Darryl Hannah’s been locked in the aquarium again!”
November 21st, 2015 at 6:58 am
@Tom Noir(3): said fish is apparently this publishers’ equivalent of Space Sheep or C.S. Lewis, intended to prevent moral guardians from complaining about (non-existent) ladyfishparts, while simultaneously making the artwork appear ruder in the process!
… and Hammy, yes, this is just about the right amount of ridiculous.
November 21st, 2015 at 9:23 am
How do I make fun of something this silly? It’s like putting a banana peel on top of a banana peel — the effect is not improved.
November 21st, 2015 at 2:44 pm
Truth be told, it’s a fairly accurate representation of what’s in the book. Lampooning this cover would be like shooting fish (mermaids?) in a barrel.
November 21st, 2015 at 5:18 pm
@NGpm: even the trouser wrinkles?
November 21st, 2015 at 5:40 pm
@Dead Stuff: especially the trouser wrinkles, the bike seat suppository, and the awkward mer-tail 🙂
November 27th, 2015 at 12:10 am
The fish slap bang in the middle is breaking the fourth wall. Bad fish. How can we take this cover seriously when it is acknowledging the viewer?
November 27th, 2015 at 11:44 am
@lurgee: In addition to that one, there is Nemo and at least two other fish staring straight at the viewer.
December 15th, 2015 at 1:09 pm
She was the town mercycle. Everyone had ridden her and she was always wet.
November 1st, 2016 at 4:27 am
So… “Mercycle” is an attempted wordplay on… “bicycle”???!!! Has he *finally* run out of actual puns?
December 4th, 2016 at 6:32 am
The quality of mercycle is not strained, it droppeth to Piers usual standard
December 5th, 2016 at 12:49 pm
I feel like this book was the result of a bet. The author won, obviously. Sadly, the readers lost.
March 9th, 2017 at 2:58 pm
She was all like “whoah!”, and then I was all like “whoah!”, and then we were both like “whoooooah!!!”
April 18th, 2024 at 5:22 am
@Fred #9 – I am unreasonably angry that the links you posted have disjointed themselves from the described pictures after less than a decade.
Replacement 1: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/432556739194391737/
Replacement 2: https://netsenshi.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/mercycle.jpg?w=600
April 19th, 2024 at 4:37 am
@Ryan: That’s very sad. Changed a reasonable mermaid into … this, plus took out the cephalopod and stuck in the gormless drowning cycle doofus. I hope Mr. Shaw was paid extra. And couldn’t GDCD have been given a slightly different shade of denim so he didn’t fade into the background so much?
At least the expression on her face makes more sense now; a mermaid would be used to cephalopods, but not to GDCD.
Unless the cover came first and the tentacles are a better replacement for future sales.
April 19th, 2024 at 1:41 pm
♪ Misty water-colored mammaries
Of the way-weird mer. ♪
April 19th, 2024 at 9:11 pm
@Tor: holds up lighter GSS!