Jul 28
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Tom Noir’s Art Direction: “Actually we’ve outsourced this cover to a group of Photoshop experts in North Korea. These guys are brilliant, you’ll see!”
Published 1963
(Average: 8.34 out of 10)
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July 28th, 2016 at 11:05 am
“Ah, actually you see Yuri Gagarin was the first who didn’t return to Earth looking like this.”
July 28th, 2016 at 11:19 am
Who let the dogs out?
July 28th, 2016 at 11:25 am
Best not to ask about his ‘bubble butt’.
July 28th, 2016 at 11:34 am
‘Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the rest of the New York Times quote.’
July 28th, 2016 at 1:07 pm
They say that goldfish only grow as large as their environment allows.
July 28th, 2016 at 1:45 pm
So…the spacesuit designers grafted the bubble helmet collar directly to the cyclops’ double chin? That’s an OSHA complaint just waiting to be filed the first time he has to look to his left.
July 28th, 2016 at 3:18 pm
Man Ray’s entry for the award for Most 1930s Christmas Tree Bauble.
July 28th, 2016 at 3:19 pm
As soon as I saw this title in his bibliography I had to find the cover.
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July 28th, 2016 at 4:44 pm
Honestly, I think his shoulders are even weirder than his head.
July 28th, 2016 at 4:46 pm
I take it there is no “cyclops” tag? Mind you, that would require covers with cyclopes to turn up more often, and this seems to be the first one in a long while.
This cover does look somewhat disturbing, though, which makes it slightly acceptable for a cosmic horror story . . . except that there is no cyclops astronaut in the story, as I understand it.
July 28th, 2016 at 4:56 pm
@Anna T. – I’ve seen more than one Cyclops (Cyclopss?) around here. Find me another and we can start adding that tag.
July 28th, 2016 at 5:01 pm
@TW: technically we’ve seen at least five!
July 28th, 2016 at 6:37 pm
“I was skimming through this and kept seeing the adjective ‘cyclopean.’ That probably means ‘pertaining to cyclops… cyclops-es… cyclopssssss…’ whatever. Right? And you said this stuff is called ‘cosmic horror’? So we slap a cosmic cyclops on the front and call it a day, yeah? Who’s buying drinks after work?”
July 28th, 2016 at 7:22 pm
@TW: Another Day, Another Dungeon, another cyclops. Good night, people!
July 28th, 2016 at 8:03 pm
The real reason Alan Coren stuck to radio after 1990?
July 28th, 2016 at 8:32 pm
“What he lacks in depth perception he certainly makes up with willingness to expose oneself to dangerous radiation.”
July 28th, 2016 at 8:46 pm
Add a beard and another eye and he kind of looks like this guy.
July 29th, 2016 at 5:49 pm
@Tag Wizard, @DSWBT, @Eric: The plural of “cyclops” is “cyclopes”, pronounced “SYC-lo-PEEZ”. Since you were all wondering.
July 29th, 2016 at 6:21 pm
@Anna T.: any idea how to pronounce ‘Tindalos’? Is it like ‘Tin Dallas’ or ‘Tender-loss’?
(I veer towards the latter, and have been trying not to think of the ‘Fingermouse’ song from ‘Fingerbobs’ for the last couple of days: 56 seconds in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBCJ7KQ7I0 and the ‘famous body swerve’ reference is fifty years old this week).
July 29th, 2016 at 8:13 pm
The thing of it is, this fellow wouldn’t look that out of place in Metallica’s All Nightmare Long video.
August 3rd, 2016 at 2:07 pm
How could you forget these?
August 3rd, 2016 at 5:02 pm
@RachelJ: months of therapy.
August 12th, 2016 at 7:08 am
Terry Gilliam called and he wants his drawing back!