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Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: Wearing a beehive as a breastplate is just rubbing it in.
Published 1980
(Average: 7.21 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Wearing a beehive as a breastplate is just rubbing it in.
Published 1980
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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
June 9th, 2023 at 2:14 pm
I’d recognize that bug face anywhere. The artist must be a fan of the 50’s stop-motion creature feature ‘The Black Scorpion’.
Scroll down.
https://www.kaijubattle.net/kaiju-movie-database/the-black-scorpion-1957
June 9th, 2023 at 3:46 pm
The long-awaited ‘Hawk the Slayer’ sequel got around the lack of Jack Palance by making Voltan’s hat more symmetrical.
June 9th, 2023 at 4:03 pm
A young Darth Vader realises he’s not rockin’ it without the cape.
June 9th, 2023 at 4:37 pm
You could do a mashup with a recent cover and get “Starfist Troopers.”
Which sounds even more pornographic than “Starfist” alone.
June 9th, 2023 at 7:34 pm
Some definite Star Wars influences there, and not good ones.
The gun is leaking: perhaps it’s supposed to squirt bug spray?
(We criticize Verhoeven for making the Bugs into essentially animals with no technology outside their own bodies, but the cover artist too seems to think of the Bugs as, well, a bunch of big bugs.)
I don’t know what the blue frothy stuff in the background is supposed to be: bug juice?
June 10th, 2023 at 12:18 am
This is more than 20 years after the book came out originally, by which time it was a classic that everyone had read. Except the artist and maybe the art director.
I haven’t read it in ages, but I don’t remember the guns shooting blue spooge. Or the suits having openings to the air, what with the whole dropping from space in them. And, of course, not powered or armored. I guess the blue could be bug guts, but why get that close before firing?
Looks more like a confused model in a non-mech suit who doesn’t know how to hold the gun. Which also seems to be a model, as the pistol grip and trigger seem to be cast in one solid piece.
The best adaptation of this story remains the CGI animated series “Roughnecks”. All the pew-pew, less of the lecturing.
Also, BEHIND YOU!
June 10th, 2023 at 2:18 am
Hmmm… my kid brother’s copy had a better cover. And while I found the movie plot took silly liberties and was dumbed down for the non SF crowd, visually it was more like I imagined than this.
Time for a cover theme song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfP6D3NTVg
June 10th, 2023 at 2:30 am
@GSS ex-noob: yeah, the Troopers looked reasonably good in “Roughnecks.” They had Skinnies, too, IIRC.
June 10th, 2023 at 2:47 pm
Now how does he expect to kill those giant bugs armed with a Super Soaker™ rifle, and a leaky one at that?
June 10th, 2023 at 11:16 pm
@Bruce: Mr. LT loooved it and I certainly liked watching it too. I gave him the whole DVD set for Christmas one year.
@Tor: I bet that’s already a porno.
@Tat: I am sending an annoyed complaint to you back 7 years ago for the earworm.