@DSWBT – Tag science is extremely complex. I would have difficulty explaining it to an average bloke such as yourself who hasn’t gone through extensive, professional training.
This is like the poster of some bog-standard horror/thriller about women getting stalked – only lamer, and the woman’s stilettos will in no way be of any use when she tries to run. She’s gonna break her ankles.
In the hellish period when any successful US sitcom got its Saturday Morning cartoon spin-off, there was a ‘Jeannie’ show with ‘Junior Genie Babu’. In the equally hellish period when any cartoon or graphic novel went ‘dark’ and edgy’ to prove that they weren’t just for arrested adolescents it’s amazing that there wasn’t one with Babu turning to the Dark Side and hunting down his former tutor. This cover would suit a DC Vertigo from c.1996, right down to the Jackie Brown-style Jeannie
@JP: it doesn’t say what SPECIES the beautiful women are, does it? Maybe the lass is being used as bait for the butterfly the fellow wants as his (short-lived) slave.
Lunesta® Mothra is, like, pointing at her scoldingly—”My good woman are you not aware that one of your stockings is showing a shocking slippage, not to mention that arm strap shtick?”
February 27th, 2017 at 1:16 pm
This isn’t the Mothra I remember.
February 27th, 2017 at 1:31 pm
@fred – That’s not Mothra … that’s the Lunesta® Moth from Hell.
February 27th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
@TW: why are ‘James Rusk’ and ‘Jr’ separate tags?
February 27th, 2017 at 2:27 pm
@DSWBT – Tag science is extremely complex. I would have difficulty explaining it to an average bloke such as yourself who hasn’t gone through extensive, professional training.
February 27th, 2017 at 2:31 pm
Where’s her shadow?
February 27th, 2017 at 2:38 pm
“The Shadow knows… Ah-hahahahahahahahaaaaeurgh eh-hech-heurch-heeeeghhh… Oh, excuse me, I’m out of practice.”
February 27th, 2017 at 3:31 pm
@JuanPaul – The shadow IS the girl’s shadow. It’s a “nonsensical shadow.” Tags answer all questions.
February 27th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
This is like the poster of some bog-standard horror/thriller about women getting stalked – only lamer, and the woman’s stilettos will in no way be of any use when she tries to run. She’s gonna break her ankles.
February 27th, 2017 at 4:13 pm
@TW: *sob* OH HOW RIGHT YOU ARE! 😉
February 27th, 2017 at 5:02 pm
In the hellish period when any successful US sitcom got its Saturday Morning cartoon spin-off, there was a ‘Jeannie’ show with ‘Junior Genie Babu’. In the equally hellish period when any cartoon or graphic novel went ‘dark’ and edgy’ to prove that they weren’t just for arrested adolescents it’s amazing that there wasn’t one with Babu turning to the Dark Side and hunting down his former tutor. This cover would suit a DC Vertigo from c.1996, right down to the Jackie Brown-style Jeannie
February 27th, 2017 at 6:06 pm
“A DECADE of science fiction, and this is what we to show for it.”
February 27th, 2017 at 6:29 pm
The shadow would only land on her like that if she was a 2 dimensional image on the ground. One again, you can trust me, I went to art school.
And I know, TW, it’s in the tags.
February 27th, 2017 at 6:48 pm
@JP: it doesn’t say what SPECIES the beautiful women are, does it? Maybe the lass is being used as bait for the butterfly the fellow wants as his (short-lived) slave.
February 27th, 2017 at 6:49 pm
From the back cover: “They came with a phenomenal fog: MOTHS. Marking the beautiful women. Causing chaos in the cities. … When official agencies rebuff the truth, only science fiction believers can solve the mystery and save the victims.”
Looks like I was half right and half wrong.
February 27th, 2017 at 7:56 pm
Spock has a seven year itch again.
February 27th, 2017 at 8:21 pm
Lunesta® Mothra is, like, pointing at her scoldingly—”My good woman are you not aware that one of your stockings is showing a shocking slippage, not to mention that arm strap shtick?”
February 27th, 2017 at 9:09 pm
@BC: nice riff, but needs more alliteration.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:57 am
@DeadStuffWBT—isn’t that how moths talk? Especially pretentious, smug ones. That moth looks smug to me.
February 28th, 2017 at 5:59 am
Maybe it’s the moth’s shadow on the ground, revealing his true form, still a bit smug too.
February 28th, 2017 at 10:51 pm
@BC: I was imagining something more along the lines of:
‘Say, sister!’ said Synanthedon serica smugly, ‘showing such stocking slippage, supplementing sinister strap shtick, suggests strumpet status!’
—Space Slaves
March 1st, 2017 at 9:47 am
[Between gritted teeth] Must not… make another… Trump wife joke…
April 21st, 2017 at 12:17 am
Before…and…after!
October 1st, 2019 at 6:05 pm
No, it can’t be helped – I’ve got to do it:
“Donald, lyubyy, please put on your toupée…”
(I am so ashamed.)