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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth’s Art Direction: We haven’t any more time to spend on your ‘drawing the main character’ rubbish, there are 117 layers of rainbow-coloured lacquer to slap on the cover before we put it to bed!
Published 2011

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February 24th, 2016 at 10:29 am
That Adam Sandler will do anything for a cheap laugh.
February 24th, 2016 at 11:48 am
How can one boy extinguish the ultimate extraterrestrial fire starter?
DEMONS and DRUIDS
(and BODILY FLUIDS)
February 24th, 2016 at 12:02 pm
Four x’s shy of a X x’s front cover.
February 24th, 2016 at 1:31 pm
This is what happens when you let children make too many choices. Plus they’ve been finger painting all over Stonehenge again.
February 24th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
London’s burning – quick, head for Stonehenge to put it out. With lightning-bolts.
February 24th, 2016 at 2:09 pm
The ultimate extraterrestrial fire starter?
You mean this guy?
February 24th, 2016 at 2:09 pm
“Prepare for.. Lightningcrotch!”
February 24th, 2016 at 2:15 pm
@B’mancer: no…These guys.
February 24th, 2016 at 3:30 pm
“ThunderBiebers are GO!!”
February 24th, 2016 at 3:31 pm
“Can one boy…”
NO.
Just NO.
Okay?
February 24th, 2016 at 4:48 pm
Is that Cthulhu’s cousin back there?
February 25th, 2016 at 12:41 am
London burning to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and druid come down
London burning to the underworld
Come out of the Stonehenge, you boys and girls
London burning, now don’t look behind
Phony Children’s Choice award has bitten the dust
London burning, see we ain’t got no swing
‘Cept for the shine of that rainbow thing
With apologies to The Clash.
February 25th, 2016 at 1:42 am
@Anna T: Cthulhu’s cousin reminds me of this guy:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Osi_Sobeck
February 25th, 2016 at 10:51 am
America’s burning!
Can one man extinguish the ultimate racist firestarters?
Malcolm X: Justice and equality
February 25th, 2016 at 4:42 pm
@Perry Armstrong: Crazy Prison Warden with Chronic Eye Twitch? Yeah, the guy in the background could be his cousin as well.
March 1st, 2016 at 10:35 am
Dax Nile
Can lonely firestarter Dax Nile burn his extreme anguish on “Ur a bitter otter tit” song?
SUDDEN, SORDID MAN
* Fat Ray Chen’s Horde: Eat Hohu licorice! *
Mare Tasta and saddle-sore man J.P.
February 18th, 2022 at 8:03 pm
Now I want to google the lyrics for “Ur a Bitter Otter Tit.”
Didn’t Cream sing that on Disraeli Gears?
February 18th, 2022 at 9:17 pm
Meed the lad who excelX
Young DanielX
‘And that’s magic!’
(UK reference undoubtedly lost on both authors and all the alleged kerjillions of young readers because you have to have actually spent more than a night in a Knightsbridge hotel watching CNN to get it. See also Rainbow Rowell, John C Wright.)
February 18th, 2022 at 10:27 pm
So maybe the alien is one of these dudes? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/321092648405081546/
A Dubious Award winner, I see! Seems rather the genre mashup: the “X” in his name and the Electrical Combat Stance suggests he’s a Marvel-type mutant, which would along with an alien point to science fiction, but “Demons and Druids” indicates fantasy (and not very coherent fantasy: Druids indicates Celtic [1] myth and magic, while Demons is more a Christian thing. Unless they’re going with the Celtic Gods were actually Demons thing, which is just rude.)
[1] Stonehenge of course long predates the Druids, but that’s an _old_ mistake which has become somewhat grandfathered into the Extruded Celtic Fantasy Product genre.
February 19th, 2022 at 12:09 am
@Bruce: Patterson gets a bigger budget, so his multi-colored alien flames are fancier.
Also, categories-schmategories: Patterson and the guy what actually wrote it don’t care. It’s Extruded SF/F/YA Product, it can have mutants, aliens, demons, and druids. Presumably X-Boy and the druids take on the evil aliens and demons. From a safe distance of 144 km (90 miles in old money).
@Tat: I only spent 2 nights in a hotel at Hammersmith tube station, so that’s me also out of it. (5 weeks total in Scotland and England, though)
February 19th, 2022 at 8:35 am
@Cap Tor 😀—I think Ginger Baker did the vocal.
February 19th, 2022 at 2:49 pm
The Gauls have dealt with invaders before, so Britain sought their help when Pyrotechnix showed up. Asterix and Obelix were busy hunting wild boar, so Getafix sent his nephew, DanielX-Fully-Electrix.
I think the cover needs more blue.
February 19th, 2022 at 6:13 pm
@GSSx-n: Even in so brief a stay you’d’ve learned better than to call your not-Hogwarts “Watford”* and have it five hours’ train journey from Paddington (i.e. somewhere in Wales). Or to have the bad-boy Boris-Johnson-a-like posh vampire called ‘Baz’. That’s just the ones Americans noticed…
(*If only she’d picked ‘Romford’ instead.)
February 20th, 2022 at 12:16 am
@Tat: Well, yes, that and I know how to Google things — like how far apart London and Stonehenge are… I had a vague memory of “maybe 2-3 hours?” but confirmed it.
Not that Brits don’t make similar errors about the US. IRL even — it’s amazing how many tourists think San Francisco and Disneyland are just a quick commute away instead of 400+ miles apart, 7 hours’ drive on a day with no traffic or weather.
@The Blue: indeed, there’s not enough of your signature color, but I guess it’s not eye-gouging enough for this cover.
Young Electrix is thinking “these demons are crazy!”
February 20th, 2022 at 12:27 am
Wait a minute. The suggested reading age for this book is grade 3-7, but for the manga it’s grade 7. (Amazon)
February 20th, 2022 at 1:11 am
@GSSxn (#24):
2011? Is that too early or too late for Electrix to say “‘at’s wack….”?
February 20th, 2022 at 7:09 pm
Disney’s advertising went to great lengths to foster the idea that you could just nip from San Francisco to Disneyand and back in an afternoon. And US drama series had people apparently teleporting to and from LA or Vegas. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, and with Yanks sneering at our parochial belief that 100 miles is a long distance (it is – I’ve walked it), your friends aren’t entirely to blame. The guilt lies with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James.
February 20th, 2022 at 11:05 pm
@Hammy: I know “wack” was in existence long before 2011. Whether an electrical kid in a part of England too far from where he ought to be would use it or not is beyond my expertise, as is whether it’s too late to be used save in a knowingly retro sense. Crack is wack!
@Tat: pfff. I used to drive 200 miles round-trip to spend from after work Friday till after dinner Sunday with friends once a month or so. Walking wouldn’t have been an option, though. Particularly along the interstate.
Even more common is seeing hordes of tourists on the waterfront of San Francisco shivering in their brand-new Disneyland t-shirts, because they think all of California is hot in the summer (also no doubt Disney’s fault) and they’ve gone from sweltering 90’s and sunny in the Mouse Kingdom to 60’s, cloudy, and with ocean breezes from both sides in SF. (And it’s a cold ocean, even down south.)
It does mean good business for sellers of overpriced sweatshirts.
These tourists are crazy!
February 21st, 2022 at 3:54 am
Now wait a minnit—you can get to Disneyland™™️®️©️, from anywhere, in an instant. First, you win the Superbowl and then when the shill asks you, “Where you goin’ now Joe?” You say, “I’m goin’ to Disneyland™™️®️©️!!” And *poof* you’ll be there.