This guy is demeaning the art of space surfing with his tacky gear! No one wears bright red hazmat suits and paints their board to look like an ugly rug unless they have absolutely no taste.
Say what you will of Lieut Gulliver Jones: he had bad dress sense, he chose odd ornamentation schemes for his galactic surfboard, or that he was over-fond of the color red, but at least he wasn’t goofy-footed.
@Ryan, @GSS: sure that’s not a Martian rather than the good Lieutenant himself?
As fred mentioned earlier, the man was sort of a proto-John Carter (and, in turn, trying to steal some of that Dean Swift mojo). Aside from Marvel comics, he also makes a brief appearance in Alan Moore’s mashup of all things retro-Martian in “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2”
Here he is (flying carpet rolled up) meeting one of Burrough’s Green Martians:
I see GSS has decided to observe American holidays as well! Spiffing trans-Atlantic spirit!
@A-S: This isn’t as scary-bad as so many we’ve seen, but it certainly is unappealing.
A dull title, the intro guy’s name in the same size font as the author’s (and all dull — too many fonts is bad. But 2, or differing colors, is fine), and the WTF red-suited possibly-monkey on the non-hydrodynamic surfboard, riding a wave breaking directly above outer space.
Bad Show, indeed.
The Last Assassin of the Hidden Throne, or whatever that parody cover was, might attract a buyer. This, not so much.
February 26th, 2016 at 10:36 am
That’s a long drop if he falls in. Isn’t he facing the wrong way?
February 26th, 2016 at 11:31 am
Po the Teletubbie cut loose during his teenage years.
February 26th, 2016 at 1:14 pm
Lieut Gulliver Jones: His Colons
February 26th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
Surfing With The Alien
February 26th, 2016 at 2:54 pm
1) That is a terrible title. Maybe the worst title in all of sci-fi-dom.
2) That surfboard’s shape is all wrong, even assuming that things are supposed to work different iiiiiiin spaaaaaaaace.
February 26th, 2016 at 3:56 pm
Given what the book really is (written in 1905-totally ripped of by Burroughs for his John Carter/Mars books), this cover makes no sense. Marvel even did him in the 70’s.
http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/marvel-spotlight-creatures-on-loose.html
February 26th, 2016 at 5:23 pm
This guy is demeaning the art of space surfing with his tacky gear! No one wears bright red hazmat suits and paints their board to look like an ugly rug unless they have absolutely no taste.
And his board’s rectangular. The horror.
February 26th, 2016 at 5:29 pm
Isn’t the problem not that he doesn’t know how to ride a surfboard, but that he doesn’t know how to take a magic carpet ride?
February 26th, 2016 at 5:51 pm
It takes real bravery to go near salt water after your skin’s been removed.
February 26th, 2016 at 11:16 pm
Is he surfing an aurora? Maybe that explains the half-ping-pong balls over his eyes. You know, to shield them from cosmic rays…
February 27th, 2016 at 1:21 am
It’s a quest… It’s a quest for fun.
February 27th, 2016 at 11:14 am
Miss Rafter sees
LI’L ELVIS OJUVU: TEARING THIS OCEAN
by well-rested Ron Dina
Turn necrotic & die alone, Glenn R. Gory
March 4th, 2016 at 8:41 am
Awful title. It should’ve been
HANG TEN… LIGHTYEARS
May 22nd, 2020 at 3:32 pm
The title’s fine for 1905. It could have been ‘What I Did in My Holidays’. Or ‘With the Bentfin Boomer Boys on Li’l Old New Alabama’*
(*It exists. It’s in ‘Again: Dangerous Visions’.)
May 22nd, 2020 at 4:32 pm
Bodhi surfing eternity.
May 22nd, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Someone liked Dark Star.
May 22nd, 2020 at 7:52 pm
Should be Lieut Gulliver Jones: His Travels.
May 22nd, 2020 at 8:11 pm
Assessment: Not a good cover.
May 22nd, 2020 at 8:26 pm
Lieutenant Jones really liked to monkey around.
May 23rd, 2020 at 1:36 am
Say what you will of Lieut Gulliver Jones: he had bad dress sense, he chose odd ornamentation schemes for his galactic surfboard, or that he was over-fond of the color red, but at least he wasn’t goofy-footed.
May 23rd, 2020 at 6:12 am
@Tat: Not a bad story, though the funetik spelling is a bit of a slog.
@Ryan: Sure, but it’s easier to hold onto a surfboard when you’re a monkey with opposable thumb-toes.
May 23rd, 2020 at 8:59 am
On Mars, carpet fly you!
May 24th, 2020 at 4:25 am
@Ryan, @GSS: sure that’s not a Martian rather than the good Lieutenant himself?
As fred mentioned earlier, the man was sort of a proto-John Carter (and, in turn, trying to steal some of that Dean Swift mojo). Aside from Marvel comics, he also makes a brief appearance in Alan Moore’s mashup of all things retro-Martian in “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2”
Here he is (flying carpet rolled up) meeting one of Burrough’s Green Martians:
https://musewithmeblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/leaguevol2greenmartian.jpg?w=809
May 24th, 2020 at 6:06 am
There should have been a “as GSS undoubtedly already knows” in that last post, sorry. Internet troubles, trouble editing.
May 25th, 2020 at 2:24 pm
I think actually deserves a “Bad Show Sir”…Hey is there actually such a counterpart to this site?
May 25th, 2020 at 11:30 pm
I see GSS has decided to observe American holidays as well! Spiffing trans-Atlantic spirit!
@A-S: This isn’t as scary-bad as so many we’ve seen, but it certainly is unappealing.
A dull title, the intro guy’s name in the same size font as the author’s (and all dull — too many fonts is bad. But 2, or differing colors, is fine), and the WTF red-suited possibly-monkey on the non-hydrodynamic surfboard, riding a wave breaking directly above outer space.
Bad Show, indeed.
The Last Assassin of the Hidden Throne, or whatever that parody cover was, might attract a buyer. This, not so much.
May 26th, 2020 at 12:26 am
@GSS xn: It was the May Bank Holiday here in the UK on Monday. Pure coincidence!
November 22nd, 2021 at 2:25 am
Curious George Surfs Uranus