How can the artist only draw in the singular when the title screams plural? Instead we get Gomer Pyle and not Sgt Fury and his Howling Space Commandos.
I’m seeing something of Monty Python’s Black Knight in this design. Come to that, it’s pretty easy to envisage Michael Ironside’s character proclaiming “It’s just a flesh wound” in the midst of being torn apart!
His hands aren’t even anywhere near the trigger! I think Johnny would cringe at living in readers’ imaginations in such absurd armor, sort of just standing in front of a bug-explosion. I have just three words for the artist…READ THE BOOK!
“No Luke, I am your Mother! And would it kill you to ring on birthdays and Christmas? Some of us are busy maintaining the empire you know, we don’t all have time to be swanning about with rebels and being all rebellious.”
March 25th, 2016 at 11:06 am
Another cover where the artist painted the firearm in afterwards. Look, his left hand’s through the stock and not taking any of the weight.
March 25th, 2016 at 11:22 am
His gun is leaking!
Not that he appears to have any idea how to fire it, so it probably doesn’t matter.
March 25th, 2016 at 12:08 pm
“No, Luke, I am your farter.”
March 25th, 2016 at 12:27 pm
@THX: Fartship poopers
March 25th, 2016 at 1:41 pm
Sploog Gun
March 25th, 2016 at 2:46 pm
How can the artist only draw in the singular when the title screams plural? Instead we get Gomer Pyle and not Sgt Fury and his Howling Space Commandos.
March 25th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
That helmet would rub against his ear-ring.
(See also ‘The Embarrassments of Science Fiction’ by Thomas Disch and the footnotes to ‘Triton’ by Samuel R Delany).
March 25th, 2016 at 4:49 pm
Is this picture from a Bug War-themed music video or what?
March 25th, 2016 at 5:14 pm
@Anna T.: starring Sarah Brightman?
(Like I needed an excuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwilCs4Jqg)
March 25th, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Ahahaha, this is my copy.
March 25th, 2016 at 5:52 pm
I don’t think Juan Rico would be caught dead in that armor….
March 25th, 2016 at 11:42 pm
I’m seeing something of Monty Python’s Black Knight in this design. Come to that, it’s pretty easy to envisage Michael Ironside’s character proclaiming “It’s just a flesh wound” in the midst of being torn apart!
March 27th, 2016 at 3:26 am
Would still have been better than the outfits in the movie. Except for the dripping space-blunderbuss.
March 28th, 2016 at 4:08 am
His hands aren’t even anywhere near the trigger! I think Johnny would cringe at living in readers’ imaginations in such absurd armor, sort of just standing in front of a bug-explosion. I have just three words for the artist…READ THE BOOK!
March 28th, 2016 at 12:10 pm
“No Luke, I am your Mother! And would it kill you to ring on birthdays and Christmas? Some of us are busy maintaining the empire you know, we don’t all have time to be swanning about with rebels and being all rebellious.”
Also, soulcatcher knew how to rock a morion without needing a gun! http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=92