May 25
Good Show Sir Comments: Here is the wrap-around cover so you enjoy the wrap-around snake view. The camera might not pick it up but everything is embossed. Lady, snake, sword, title. Everything!
Published 1986
Good Show Sir Comments: Here is the wrap-around cover so you enjoy the wrap-around snake view. The camera might not pick it up but everything is embossed. Lady, snake, sword, title. Everything!
Published 1986
May 25th, 2016 at 11:29 am
The attempt to update the letterhead for the Royal College of Surgeons fell short of expectations.
May 25th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
I’m getting a strong Dee Snider vibe from that naga. It must be the eye shadow.
May 25th, 2016 at 12:04 pm
Why, yes, it was published by Playboy Press! Why do you ask?
May 25th, 2016 at 2:32 pm
The oversized scrunchy wristband is doing nothing to conceal the obvious career-ending dislocation she no doubt suffered trying to grasp a sword hilt the same circumference as her neck.
May 25th, 2016 at 2:57 pm
@DSWBT—NAGA. That’s the North American Grappling Association, right? I think she’s an expert grappler, judging by the size of that hilt she’s grappling with. On the other hand, she also appears most literally to be a Twisted Sister.
May 25th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Ann-Margret was a surprise addition to the Clash of the Titans cast.
May 25th, 2016 at 3:39 pm
From the size of that letter opener, I assume the she-snake is under a foot long. The tiny ones do have an attitude, though.
May 25th, 2016 at 3:49 pm
The alternative cover of Smell the glove. “That’s just nitpicking, isn’t it.”
May 25th, 2016 at 5:16 pm
Didn’t the Wheel o’ Time books use the same font?
May 25th, 2016 at 8:49 pm
“But what begins with marriage vows will end in echoing screams of the damned – in spilled blood and sobbing, throat aching terror.”
This quote should have been included in the oath when I married my first wife.
May 25th, 2016 at 11:10 pm
Ancestor of Hunt the Space Witch?
May 26th, 2016 at 8:01 am
@ Billy Awesome – Ha! That’s no sword hilt Billy. No, wait, it is. This cover is messing with my mind.
May 26th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
I initially thought the snake was the woman’s leg, and that she was holding the sword between her legs. Which, considering the tone of the cover as it is, would not be out of place at all.
May 26th, 2016 at 7:58 pm
@B’Mancer—hey, I too had one of those!
May 26th, 2016 at 8:58 pm
“But what begins with marriage vows will end in echoing screams of the damned – in spilled blood and sobbing, throat aching terror.”
Isn’t that lurid cover inappropriate for a documentary about marriage? (I kid, I kid.)
May 28th, 2016 at 5:02 pm
“All Heads Turn When Helen Hunt Goes By.”
August 19th, 2016 at 10:47 pm
@TW: candidate for the Animals with Human Faces tag?
August 20th, 2016 at 3:43 pm
I think the full wrap-around cover is pretty good. But they did a crappy job of cropping it. Snake lady looks like she’s stabbing herself with that sword on the front cover.
May 19th, 2018 at 6:33 pm
This is the revised title. The original title was similar, but used a different word that rhymes with ‘Hunt’.
May 20th, 2018 at 4:43 am
The way her neck looks, she might be the only person who can’t turn her head when the hunt goes by….
May 21st, 2018 at 7:12 am
User review:
“starts out with a wedding and BLOOD EVERYWHERE!!! Pretty darn good.”
May 21st, 2018 at 1:37 pm
@Tom Noir—You mean “All Heads Turn When the Punt Goes By,” the story of a science fiction boat ride?
May 21st, 2018 at 9:50 pm
@BC – You must mean “All Heads Turn When the Blunt Goes By”, the story of a fantasy doobie.
May 22nd, 2018 at 1:59 am
@B’mancer — You mean “All Heads Turn When the Shunt Goes By”, the story of a science fiction arterial implant.
May 22nd, 2018 at 4:09 am
GSS x-n — You must mean “All Heads Turn When the Bunt Goes By”, the story of errors in a fantasy baseball game…. 😉
May 22nd, 2018 at 8:58 pm
I think we all mean “All Heads Turn When the Runt Goes By,” the story of Harlan Ellison.
May 22nd, 2018 at 10:01 pm
You must mean “All Heads Turn When the Grunt Goes By”, the story of a US Marine.
May 22nd, 2018 at 11:04 pm
Good Show, us!
May 8th, 2023 at 1:56 am
To save you all the bother of going through all 22 pages of ‘Sword’-tagged covers, here’s one that allows you to make Penny Mordaunt jokes AND slag off Jeremy Hunt.
May 8th, 2023 at 3:20 am
“Of course, you wouldn’t think so given the utterly goofy cover art he seems to have most of the time. Get a new publisher, John! I’m begging you!” – Stephen King.