Oct 11
Good Show Sir Art Direction: “The cover has to out the door by five.
Just shoot your kid’s G.I. Joe Astronaut!”
Published 1970 Thanks to Otis The Sci-fi Guy
Good Show Sir Art Direction: “The cover has to out the door by five.
Just shoot your kid’s G.I. Joe Astronaut!”
Published 1970 Thanks to Otis The Sci-fi Guy
October 11th, 2016 at 12:51 pm
It’s hard enough doing a duck-walk in a space-suit without the spherical ducklings leaving little puddles of gravel everywhere.
October 11th, 2016 at 1:13 pm
A science fiction thriller! A novel! Did we mention it’s a novel? This thing is totally a book that can be read!
October 11th, 2016 at 2:06 pm
Spaceballs filmed in “Supermarionation”
October 11th, 2016 at 2:22 pm
He looks more like a human with robot feelings.
October 11th, 2016 at 2:24 pm
Terrahawks isn’t as good as I remember it.
October 11th, 2016 at 2:26 pm
Hey, order # 99 Monte Cristo is up! Ding ding ding!
October 11th, 2016 at 2:38 pm
Tonight we’re making coffee like it’s 1999–doo dooo doo, doo da doo
October 11th, 2016 at 2:58 pm
An adjectival-phrase subject adjacent to a predicate-like prepositional phrase…
October 11th, 2016 at 2:59 pm
How much more arse-backwards can you get and still call it ‘bowling’?
October 11th, 2016 at 3:16 pm
Space 1999 #99.
This version of Monte Cristo takes his sweet ass time in getting around to the revenge bit.
It’s 2116.
It’s 3220.
Now it’s 3869…
https://vintage45.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/monte-cristo-99-john-jakes-1970/
October 11th, 2016 at 3:52 pm
I’m gonna have ‘Monte Cristo #99’ printed on a t-shirt and tell people it’s a band they never heard of.
October 11th, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Space, the flat frontier.
@TagWizard, doesn’t this cover receive the ‘a novel’ tag?
October 11th, 2016 at 4:53 pm
@DSWBT – It’s “an original novel”. Big difference.
October 11th, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Nothing about this arrangement of camcorder-wielding toy astronaut and marbles in front of an uninspired galaxy backdrop brings to mind sapient robots and tales of epic revenge.
Did they just pick this one out of a pile labelled “Random Sci-Fi Covers”?
October 11th, 2016 at 5:21 pm
@DSWBT 8—yeah, and the capital letters don’t help much either!
October 11th, 2016 at 5:48 pm
@TW: aha, we need the Christabel tag for this one!
October 11th, 2016 at 7:47 pm
@DSWBT ?
http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cristabel
October 11th, 2016 at 8:40 pm
Like a still taken from the Robot Chicken parody of Armageddon. 2001 had monoliths; this artist has gone for magic 8-balls. The device in his hand is based on a real compressed gas-gun used for propulsion during eva by Gemini-program astronauts.
October 12th, 2016 at 2:30 pm
All I have to say is:
Monte Cristo 99p.