Nov 15
Click for full imageTom Noir Comments: Good god man, you’re under attack by a four-armed giant! This is hardly the time for rubbing fun bits!
Published 1969
(Average: 8.19 out of 10)
Loading...
Tom Noir Comments: Good god man, you’re under attack by a four-armed giant! This is hardly the time for rubbing fun bits!
Published 1969
(Average: 8.19 out of 10)Loading...
(10.00 out of 10)
(9.26 out of 10) (9.20 out of 10) (9.02 out of 10) (9.00 out of 10) (8.98 out of 10) (8.95 out of 10) (8.95 out of 10) (8.95 out of 10) (8.94 out of 10)
November 15th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
Kali On Camping?
November 15th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
I know you want this rated a “10” Tom Noir. But you don’t have to be so obvious.
November 15th, 2016 at 2:25 pm
hE wAs WhOle, unModifIeD—aNd tHEreFore iLLiteRatE . . .
November 15th, 2016 at 2:25 pm
I think the giant is molting.
November 15th, 2016 at 2:26 pm
What’s up with that “A” in the title? Not a font problem?
November 15th, 2016 at 3:05 pm
He looks remarkably unwhale like for an unModified whale.
November 15th, 2016 at 4:05 pm
It looks like the artist was trying to replicate an old, cheesy B-movie poster with cut-outs from equally old magazines, and this was the unfortunate result.
Also, the giant is clearly the victim of a mad scientist – I mean, just look at his arms! You have to wonder what unfortunate gorillas “donated” their arms to SCIENCE! for this questionable purpose. Hang on . . .
Is Dr. Moreau about?
November 15th, 2016 at 4:06 pm
That giant knew they were coming. Four-armed is forewarned and all that.
November 15th, 2016 at 4:08 pm
@Bibliomancer: no no, I was rating the giant! Look at those four strapping, grasping limbs… mmmm
November 15th, 2016 at 5:20 pm
Just sitting here thinking about how much this guy has to spend on deodorant . . .
November 15th, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Four-armed Jesus appears to be tossing snack cakes in his search efforts.
November 15th, 2016 at 7:11 pm
If he’s chucking loaves and fish he’ll have a plentiful supply.
November 15th, 2016 at 7:51 pm
LIGHT A LAST CANDLE is so jam-packed with so many rich ideas, so many new concepts, so many differing cultures, layer on layer, that in the hands of a less terse writer its material might have encomapssed several novels.
Terse, mind. Not good. Terse. Hemingway, James, Salinger were ‘good’. Vincent King is ‘terse’.
November 16th, 2016 at 12:21 am
Somebody out of frame is lobbing rocks to the giant.
November 16th, 2016 at 1:17 am
Wait, maybe they’ve gone back in time to the Devonian and those are the fruiting bodies of Prototaxites.
(Actually, I just found where I’d linked to that video, and I wanted to share. 🙂 )
November 16th, 2016 at 4:50 am
“Damn! I’m running short of rocks floating low enough to reach!”
November 17th, 2016 at 1:22 am
@DeadStuffWithQuitelovelyTeeth..Damn you and your fruiting, man! It made me realize that all those plants look like Gummi treats. Chewy lovely fruit snacks. And now I’ll likely put myself into a fructose coma devouring bag after bag in search of the rare ‘mystery flavored’ four arm mutant giant man Gummi.
Perhaps I’ll just go with Swedish Fish
November 17th, 2016 at 1:27 am
@FöM: my sister was bitten by a fish, once. No, really!
November 17th, 2016 at 10:55 am
The scribbled message “ID” is clearly trying to tell us something about the subtext of this cover.
November 17th, 2016 at 4:38 pm
More imaginative than Stranger in a strange land.
November 18th, 2016 at 8:29 pm
DSWBT: I hear fish bites can be pretti nasti.
(I’m so ashamed, and yet… not)
November 18th, 2016 at 8:35 pm
@A.R.Yngve – The “NOT RETURNABLE” stamp speaks volumes.
November 21st, 2016 at 3:43 am
@Anna T. “Victim”? If the blurb is anything to go by* this book depicts a future society where having gorilla arms grafted onto one’s torso is quite the done thing!
*Which it may not be, of course
November 22nd, 2016 at 1:42 pm
Note the tiny, feeble, half-hearted “ORIGINAL” tag in the upper right corner… now that’s a self-defeating trick if I ever saw one.