Dec 15
Click for full imageRaoul Comments: It’s like an Escher print with Dick Blade and the monkey both in front of each other.
Published 1979
You might remember this from here
(Average: 8.33 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: It’s like an Escher print with Dick Blade and the monkey both in front of each other.
Published 1979
You might remember this from here
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December 15th, 2016 at 1:38 pm
Cheetah’s replaced Tarzan with a new sidekick.
December 15th, 2016 at 1:40 pm
Jedd’s looking plenty liberated from here.
December 15th, 2016 at 2:06 pm
It’s that awkward moment when you both try to go through the door at once.
December 15th, 2016 at 2:21 pm
A definite conflict of interests over who is the cover star – someone’s not giving up quietly.
December 15th, 2016 at 2:26 pm
“Whoah, buddy, personal space!”
December 15th, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Did they raid the Lurid Fantasy Cliché Cabinet? Okay, so the monkey in an inaccurately horned Viking helmet is new, but that young lady is going to get chafed horribly in that chainmail bikini she’s wearing.
I must especially wonder, however, where Mr. Blade was forced to steal that miniskirt from. It suits him rather well.
December 15th, 2016 at 5:07 pm
That’s not much of a sword, I mean for a guy named “Blade” and all. I don’t think she’s particularly impressed. Neither is the baboon.
December 15th, 2016 at 5:28 pm
Mr. Blade has one hell of an overbite.
December 15th, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Adapted into a 1970s buddy-cop film “Helmet & Blade”. Together they fight crime!
December 15th, 2016 at 10:04 pm
Any Which Way but Loincloths
December 15th, 2016 at 10:40 pm
Put a couple of drinks in their hands instead of the swords and they could be happily singing a drinking song.
December 15th, 2016 at 10:46 pm
♬ Come and listen to my story ’bout a gal named Jedd… ♬
(rest of song omitted to prevent earworm and also b/c I can’t be arsed to look up the lyrics of a sitcom I never cared for)
I think the “L” in “BLADE” has given Dick’s sword an extreme circumcision. Swoop! No wonder he’s yelling.
Chainmail bikinis IRL have suede backing to prevent getting links all up in your ladybits (which also means one can wear tiny string bikini undies).
@Anna T: Perhaps he stole the miniskirt from the damsel, which would explain her state of distress. Maybe she’s yelling “Stop, thief! And baboon!”
She was going to wear the miniskirt instead of or under the bikini, and the helmet… I dunno, part of her party costume or an heirloom or something… anyway, Dick and the ape (but I repeat myself) have stolen them.
December 15th, 2016 at 11:03 pm
@Yoss – You mean these happy drunks?
December 15th, 2016 at 11:05 pm
What’s really scary is that this is an improvement over the previous cover.
@Bibliomancer: “You’ve liberated Jedd, now it’s Miller Time.”
December 15th, 2016 at 11:15 pm
@Bibliomancer No one could get drunk off those beers. I demand realism in my fantasy book covers!
December 15th, 2016 at 11:41 pm
Nice! It really is a fitting change. The original artist perfectly captured a mood, he just didn’t know which one he was capturing at the time.
Though I suppose nobody ever really expects to perfectly capture the “getting liquored up and singing with a baboon viking” mood.
December 16th, 2016 at 3:11 am
“Err, guys… still manacled to the wall here… guys, come back… GUYS!”
December 16th, 2016 at 4:55 am
@Bibliomancer—Wish I hadn’t been expected actually to get work done this afternoon or I’d’ve seen this a lot sooner. Brilliant! 😉 But, why discriminate against the damsel? Given the material she’s got to work with, surely she too deserves a snort, something suitable to her demure and ladylike demeanor?
December 16th, 2016 at 6:46 am
@GSS noob (#12). Well, we know Mr Blade doesn’t own any clothes himself, so you’re probably right.
December 16th, 2016 at 10:43 am
Testing, testing…
Ah, this one got through. Previous is still “awaiting moderation”. Glitch?
December 16th, 2016 at 11:59 am
Damsel: “Blade… wait! What about me??”
Blade: “Sorry, Ma’am… I’ve found my date! Ta ta!”
December 16th, 2016 at 12:01 pm
Come on, B. Chiclitz, anything over twelve inches would just be boasting.
December 16th, 2016 at 1:44 pm
@Francis Boyle—but I tell you it’s huuuuugggge!!! 😉
December 16th, 2016 at 2:40 pm
@RachelJ – The “Rule of Moderation” is, apparently, that if you put more than one link in one comment you are a guilty of spamming until proven innocent. I don’t know why. I just work here.
December 16th, 2016 at 11:41 pm
‘Weee are the chammmmpions, my freh-hends…’
December 17th, 2016 at 12:50 am
@B.Chiclitz #18 – Oh no, she’s not partying. She’s yelling at Dick Blade: “Don’t get the monkey drunk again. He’ll start throwing shit at everyone!”
December 17th, 2016 at 1:15 am
Let ’em go, damsel. You can always get another miniskirt and party hat (and maybe they’re insured? or you could trade in the bikini?) but do you really want Dick Blade and a shit-throwing monkey around? I say nay.
@RachelJ (19): maybe she can write off the miniskirt value as a donation to the less-fortunate. You know, the holidays, the homeless who don’t have clothes.
December 17th, 2016 at 1:16 am
@yoss #11 could be the final song of the ‘ting’ cycle
December 17th, 2016 at 6:24 pm
Artist: “For this price, I’m only painting their right arms. Left arms will cost you extra.”
Art Director: “Nah, we’re good. Just right arms are fine.”
December 18th, 2016 at 2:16 am
A dexterous artist?
December 30th, 2016 at 3:18 am
@GSS noob – I also noticed the curtailed weapon. I can just imagine the woman yelling,
“Richard, you doofus! You broke your sword on the title again! And if you ‘liberate’ the atmosphere from this colorful box into interstellar space, you’ll be sorry!!! Even the ape knows better….”
December 30th, 2016 at 10:28 pm
@HappyBookworm: Maybe the atmosphere is leaking out, and they’re all screaming in horror at the depressurization.
December 31st, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Wait – wasn’t Jedd the bloke who threw off his mental chains in that Howard Jones video? There’s the twist: Jedd liberated himself! Aaah…
March 29th, 2017 at 12:41 am
Hey everyone, I read this book! It wasn’t that good! Part 1 of my review here. Part 2 up by the end of the week. Pinky swear!
March 29th, 2017 at 1:52 am
pulpfiles pinky-swears!
Question schedule? Who dares?! 😉
As you yourself said, great prose begins in media res! So glad you’re GSS-ing.
March 29th, 2017 at 12:52 pm
♬ Come and listen to my story ’bout a land named Jedd … ♬
March 30th, 2017 at 3:00 am
@pulpfiles, we eagerly await the thrilling conclusion to the next adventure of The Sentient Penis! (as s/he so perfectly dubbed D. Blade)
March 31st, 2017 at 12:30 pm
In case you haven’t seen it yet, Part 2 is up.
July 4th, 2022 at 8:57 pm
When you put Dick in charge of a frat party, don’t be surprised at the result.
January 4th, 2024 at 5:25 pm
She doesn’t seem as excited as everyone else upon learning BARRY MANILOW
is coming to the U.K..
January 5th, 2024 at 3:48 am
How do you know she isn’t trying to sneak off to see Barry and get away from Dick and the monkey? After all, there’s presumably chairs to sit on in the concert hall, and heat/AC as needed, plus maybe she could find someone to buy her booze, food, and some clothes.