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Mark E Comments: I haven’t tried reading this on a bus but I have a feeling it might raise a few eyebrows. Love the little pervy toothy aliens.
Published 1980
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October 5th, 2016 at 10:31 am
And to think people complain about the Mary Magdalene as Christ’s wife theory.
October 5th, 2016 at 11:12 am
The fellow at two o’clock reminds me of the ‘ornithopter’ on this cover.
October 5th, 2016 at 11:42 am
I guess flying toothy whatzits only cast shadows when said shadows won’t cover breasts.
October 5th, 2016 at 12:57 pm
This is why you don’t go to the beach in France.
October 5th, 2016 at 1:02 pm
The title could have come from Ludlum. “The Jesus Incident; with Matt Damon as Jesus, Johnny Depp as Judas Iscariot, and Jeremy Irons as Pontius Pilate! Where one man turned a sea of water to wine and sent a plague of toothy monsters out to punish the wicked. Written by the creator of ‘Dune’ Frank Herbert! It’ll make you pray for your life!”
Also, the author should have drawn a dune somewhere on the cover for non-existent continuity purposes.
October 5th, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Jar-jar Binks’ retarded children are the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?
October 5th, 2016 at 1:13 pm
Bill Ransom gets about 10% of the cover real estate that FrankH does. Talk about making someone feel small.
October 5th, 2016 at 1:20 pm
The Jesus, What Did I Just Click On, Incident
October 5th, 2016 at 1:39 pm
The drone program reaches its ugly nadir.
October 5th, 2016 at 1:51 pm
Title could be the lead in to a (bad) joke:
Frank, Herbert and Bill ransom the Jesus incident . . . .
October 5th, 2016 at 2:19 pm
@BC: Jesus, their drinking buddy, was arrested on charges of being Latino in the United States. 😉 TOPICAL!
October 5th, 2016 at 3:51 pm
I did once try reading this on a bus but in Corby, a town where reading anything at all leads to accusations of witchcraft. Appropriately, it’s a sequel to ‘Destination: Void’.
(And Dead Stuff is almost right, it’s about a dude called ‘Jesus’, pronounced the Spanish way. He didn’t work at the Mystery Shack, though).
October 5th, 2016 at 5:13 pm
@DSWBT—topical indeed. I think this was the time they found Jesus with calves the size of cantaloupes, wasn’t it? Then there was that thing with the Jesus cartel.
October 5th, 2016 at 5:22 pm
It appears that sometimes, sunbathing nude on the beach just isn’t worth it.
October 5th, 2016 at 5:23 pm
‘Come along, sir. You know that you can’t operate a commissary without a permit…and don’t expect me to believe all of those loaves and all those fishes came out of your basket there.’
October 5th, 2016 at 7:49 pm
“By the author of Dune…actually, maybe you should just read Dune again.”
October 5th, 2016 at 9:58 pm
Ha! I was RIGHT!
October 5th, 2016 at 10:25 pm
It’s striking how the unfocused background makes the cover art look like a demented diorama staged by some basement-dwelling loner…
… in other words, like 25% of the covers shown on this blog.
April 21st, 2023 at 8:53 pm
DeSantis vs Disney Princess
April 22nd, 2023 at 3:11 am
So it’s a book about a guy named Jesus* and they thought the best cover was a naked bimbo lying cruciform-style surrounded by small ornithopter/dragon creatures who are zeroing in on the most obvious targets. Yeah, no.
I read the synopsis and this cover makes even less sense, though the predators are in there.
*en Espanol, I’ve got a great neighbor called that. He mows the lawn for me every weekend, which, YES! means I do see Jesus on Sundays and am grateful for his work. Hallelujah.
April 24th, 2023 at 10:24 am
“Take and eat: this is my body.”
“Don’t mind if we do!”
@Tom Noir: no, I think that’s Lake Superior in the summer. I recognize the Minnesota mosquitos.
April 24th, 2023 at 10:59 pm
@Bruce: GSS! You mean the state bird of Minnesota. I have been lucky not to encounter them, though I have survived the dreaded midges of Scotland (thankfully it was a low-population summer) and the very dreaded deerflies/horseflies of Wyoming, which required an entire bottle of calamine.