Nov 23
Click for GIANT imageCharles Comments: These aren’t just ordinary ants. These are GI-ants.
Published 1967
(Average: 7.09 out of 10)
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Charles Comments: These aren’t just ordinary ants. These are GI-ants.
Published 1967
(Average: 7.09 out of 10)Loading...
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November 23rd, 2016 at 12:19 pm
@admin: lemme get back to you on that cover. First, I’d like to rate Charles’ comment 9/10.
November 23rd, 2016 at 12:22 pm
I rather think that the abdomens all need to be Space Sheeped.
November 23rd, 2016 at 1:00 pm
‘He had a clear view of Dr. Wise, Nugget, and Bill
Carey crawling on all fours toward a kind of penthouse
corner. It so excited him that he improved on the
ejaculation.’
November 23rd, 2016 at 1:12 pm
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Ant Men!
November 23rd, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Of course the Ant Men are rioting. Remember how you greeted their ambassador:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=6386
November 23rd, 2016 at 1:52 pm
These movie novelizations are the worst. That looks nothing LIKE Paul Rudd!
November 23rd, 2016 at 1:54 pm
“Hands up! Black ants matter!” (Yes, I am ashamed.)
November 23rd, 2016 at 2:30 pm
They’re missing two limbs… one antenna… and their pants!
November 23rd, 2016 at 2:41 pm
Wow – they’ve managed to make less convincing ant-people than the Zarbi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfRAoov-W8U
And anyway, all the worker ants would be female, so the title’s wrong.
November 23rd, 2016 at 2:46 pm
I was assuming the hero seducing the Queen wasn’t an option in this book but they do seem to be surrendering so….
November 23rd, 2016 at 4:02 pm
@THX 1138: “Ant-Men” is clearly a misnomer if they don’t even have the common decency to possess six limbs like actual insects.
I really must wonder if those men in the foreground are hallucinating their opponents as giant “ant” people because of gas, and their opponents’ gas masks have contributed to this misconception.
It sounds better than the actual book, to be honest.
November 23rd, 2016 at 4:28 pm
Man hurtles backwards in time. Headless body found in topless bar. Freddie Starr ate my hamster. . .
November 23rd, 2016 at 4:35 pm
@Francis: Just a tabloid rumour. That’ll be £1, and £1 for him, too.
Man hurtles backwards in time…and finds a nightmare world where ‘The Shake’ never died out!
November 23rd, 2016 at 6:03 pm
Ant conga line!
November 23rd, 2016 at 6:29 pm
What’s worrying about this cover is that the pith-helmeted gits are treating the oncoming horde as if they were Zulus or Masai and the ‘ants’ are in the right pose to be wielding assegais. Was this cover a lightly-reconditioned painting for some kind of ‘Mogambo’ knock-off and was the content written to suit that?
November 23rd, 2016 at 7:39 pm
They’re not Ant Men, they’re Ant Unicorns!
November 23rd, 2016 at 10:19 pm
You know it’s the day before Thanksgiving when you see this turkey of a cover.
Ba-dum DUM.
November 23rd, 2016 at 10:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Did you play that Ba-dum DUM with your drumsticks?
Rimshot!
November 24th, 2016 at 2:36 am
I had hoped those were ant silhouettes in the font, but no such good fortune.
November 24th, 2016 at 3:42 am
@Bibliomancer—as usual, I winged it. Happy Thanksgiving to ye, Pilgrim.
November 24th, 2016 at 4:36 am
@B. Chiclitz – Thanks for keeping me abreast! Happy Turkey Day, Squanto.
November 24th, 2016 at 5:22 am
@DSWBT—I think they might be bite marks left after the ravenous ants began devouring the cover, only to find it was undigestible even to them, so gave up.
November 24th, 2016 at 5:25 am
Speaking of Them! (1954)
November 24th, 2016 at 6:58 am
What on Earth is the man in the foreground doing with that rifle?
A) He doesn’t know how to hold a rifle
B) He’s offering it to the ant-men in a gesture of surrender
C) He’s blind and using it as a stick
November 24th, 2016 at 12:23 pm
@DSWBT
The Sun lying to me. I’ll have you know I believe any publication that has no use for Space Sheep.
November 24th, 2016 at 4:02 pm
@Tat Wood: You raise some unfortunate implications, there . . . but I see your point.
November 24th, 2016 at 4:05 pm
@Anna T.: the publishers raised the unpleasant implications, as did the makers of the 50s books and films often illustrated that way, I was just mentioning it as tactfully as I could in a basically frivolous website.
Unless you meant my comment about the Zarbi.
November 26th, 2016 at 11:43 am
“Woo-hoo! Welcome to our party humans! Hope you like sugar cos we’ve got loads!”
“Eat lead, Ant-scum.”
June 1st, 2017 at 11:11 pm
An idle Google shows that this is the pen name of Aussie author Bernard Cronin.
July 9th, 2017 at 1:54 am
Again, I’ve used Microsoft’s Auto-Summarize feature to save us a bit of trouble reading the thing…
“Ants!” Nugget exclaimed. Nugget exploded. Ants!” Nugget echoed. Ants.” “Nugget grunted. Bill?” “Ant Men. Ant Men. Ant Men! Nugget grinned. Cannibal ants?” “Ant Men!” An Ant Men city. Ant Men, Jugs. In short, Ant Men. Nugget mumbled. “Ant Men,” Nugget growled. Agreed, Nugget?” “Bats!” “Morning, Nugget.” Nugget rumbled. Nugget growled. Nugget croaked. Nugget growled.
170 The Ant Men
“See that, Wise. Nugget shouted. Ant Men, yes. Man is only man.” Nugget muttered. Ant cows. Nugget yelled. Nugget yelled. Professor Orcutt. Wise?” “Nugget roared. Nugget snarled. “Nugget?” “Orcutt!