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Click for full imageRaoul Comments: Get crackin’, punsters!
Published 1969
(Average: 8.55 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: Get crackin’, punsters!
Published 1969
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March 9th, 2017 at 12:16 pm
THE BRONZED ARSE.
March 9th, 2017 at 12:21 pm
And she is naked and underarm-ed.
March 9th, 2017 at 12:23 pm
C’mon Dick Blade is never unarmed – especially when he’s naked.
I’ll get to the puns later but I just had to get that one out there.
March 9th, 2017 at 12:38 pm
@Francis: So did he…
What exactly is that fellow with the bronze axe swinging at? Is he actually within arm’s reach of Blade, but very, very short?
March 9th, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Anyone know if Mr Blade’s activities always take place in the same eternally naked dimension? Because if he’s visiting scores of otherworlds, none of the inhabitants of which ever wear clothes…. well, makes you think, doesn’t it?
Maybe it’s we who are the truly naked ones.
March 9th, 2017 at 12:51 pm
What is spear-guy DOING? Is this a new competitive twirling exercise?
March 9th, 2017 at 1:03 pm
“Don’t look Etheeeeeeelllll!” “And they call him the Blade! With his sword he knows he’s got it made!” “Boogidy!”
March 9th, 2017 at 1:28 pm
@Dead Big Teeth Stuff—spear-guy is recoiling in horror: “Holy shit he’s naked again!”
March 9th, 2017 at 1:29 pm
The usually taciturn Dick Blade seems to be whispering something to little Barbette. Let’s listen:
“Pssst, behind you!”
March 9th, 2017 at 1:30 pm
@RachelJ—psychically, we are all stripped naked by . . . The Blade.
March 9th, 2017 at 1:40 pm
Blocked from view by Dick’s ass is a ferocious dino-mite that they are all attacking together. Like teamwork!
March 9th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
According to this lengthy review of the book, Richard Blade does indeed spend an inordinate amount of time running around naked.
March 9th, 2017 at 2:12 pm
Naked and unarmed – COMPLETELY BY CHOICE.
March 9th, 2017 at 2:47 pm
Before Dick got there, it was a world of sophisticated intellectualism and romantic escapades.
March 9th, 2017 at 2:50 pm
What’s that looming behind the spearholder? It’s the robot waiter/vibrator from ‘The Last Galaxy Game’ if the shape’s any guide.
March 9th, 2017 at 3:11 pm
Beastly britches beard bedecked bronze bearing baldy bad barbarian bellowing.
Blade bemused.
March 9th, 2017 at 4:28 pm
“Naked and unarmed — Richard Blade is plunged by computer….”
– Wow, this book is really ahead of its time.
“…. into a strange world….”
– Oh.
March 9th, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Unless I misread @Tom Noir’s link, this is the first book in the series. So maybe, just maybe, this is setting a precedent. I mean, we all know that Richard Blade is so badass that clothing is beneath him. We don’t even see his face, as the artist chose to go for a rear view instead.
March 9th, 2017 at 6:36 pm
Is she actually trying to push him over onto his back?
March 9th, 2017 at 8:01 pm
THE BRASS ASS
March 9th, 2017 at 8:27 pm
@dswbt she’s trying to hold him up. Dick wasn’t able for the barbarian beer.
March 9th, 2017 at 8:42 pm
All three warriors are battling invisible, imaginary opponents
March 9th, 2017 at 11:54 pm
Those clothing optional beaches are attracting some violent types these days.
Still, I want to know how he’s in a world with the technology to make a sword like that, but which hasn’t bothered with anything except the most rudimentary clothing.
March 10th, 2017 at 8:06 am
Yeeaaaah, it’s been too long since we saw good ol’ Naked Dick.
(that’s what she said)
THE BRONZE ASS.
Spear-guy appears to be twirling, possibly hoping to become the majorette of the Barbarian U. Marching Band. Axe-guy seems to be winding it up and slinging it, hoping to make the Strange World Olympic Hammer Throw finals.
Also, I can’t help staring at the small of Dick’s back. He’s got a weird muscle or bone situation going on there. Must have thrown it out swinging the sword — maybe the blonde IS holding him up! Maybe she’s a chiropractor?
@L.B. (7): good reference.
March 10th, 2017 at 2:33 pm
@DSWBT
Apparently there was a Superman story were Supes was able to bud off little Supermen to help him out. Maybe that’s what’s going on here. Little Dicks. Well, reasonably large miniature Dicks. (We don’t want to embarrass the man).
Do dick jokes even count as puns? I’ve got a promise to keep.
March 10th, 2017 at 3:31 pm
Mr. Blade isn’t being very gallant using her as a human shield like that.
March 11th, 2017 at 7:04 am
@Francis Boyle: when the name of the series character is already a pun, I don’t think anything further we have to say on the subject counts. They started it! They wanted us to refer to the mighty upstanding Dick.
@Tom Noir (12): I read all 3 of the reviews (we’ve seen them all here), and egads. The books are even worse than we thought.
I do hope B’mancer’s encouragement over there will induce Ms. or Mr. pulpfiles to continue reviewing — at least as long as they can stand to. Having to take such long breaks between books to wait for the brain bleach to work bodes ill.
At age 48, Stokes married his younger brother’s widow, which… what?
March 11th, 2017 at 3:00 pm
@GSS-X – I read all three reviews over at the pulpfiles blog and they are hilarious! I encourage my fellow GSS-ers to head on over there and leave comments. The pulpfiles admin is a kindred spirit and we should urge them to complete their fantastic deep dives into the Dick Blade series and the shadowy biography of Manning Lee Stokes.
https://pulpfiles.wordpress.com/
March 11th, 2017 at 10:31 pm
I want Ms. pulpfiles * to keep reading and reviewing. We got the general idea from the covers, but who knew about the pervy hunchback Lord and opening the books with political talk? Weirder than we thought.
Eager to see how/if the books change when another author takes over too — would they get less literate?
*relatively certain pulpfiles is a Ms. And I would like to be her friend. And I hope she joins us here with her snark.
March 13th, 2017 at 3:47 am
Thanks for the kind words everybody! Working on a review of Slave of Sarma now. Should be up this week.
Love this site!
March 13th, 2017 at 6:21 am
@iMark (23), maybe this guy is their local smith?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=7694
March 13th, 2017 at 8:06 am
Blade: “Have at it, you! C’mon! I’ll slice you open!”
Naked Damsel: “No! Back off! Can’t you see they’re not trying to fight us? They’re doing Combat Zumba!”
March 13th, 2017 at 11:41 am
Hello pulpfiles, welcome to GSS! Looking forward to your next Blade review. I also might have a little more info on Manning Lee Stokes’s bio.
March 14th, 2017 at 5:50 am
Oooh! The first half of the review is up! And the cover is purest GSS material!
Contains the perfect sentence: “He is naked, because Blade.”
@TW: missing “Faux-nan” tag. Also “the no-pants dance”.
March 14th, 2017 at 2:05 pm
Is there one book in the series where the copy editor’s patience just ran out?
“Richard Blade, naked and OH SOD IT! PUT SOME PANTS ON, YOU PRANCING PERVERT!“
March 14th, 2017 at 9:07 pm
That is one rough-looking, rode-hard-and-put-away-wet damsel in distress. Just saying.
August 17th, 2017 at 6:41 am
Better axe for a bit more bronzer.
August 18th, 2017 at 1:21 pm
Q: What are “superhuman lusts”?
A: Essentially, the last act of a desperate copy editor.
August 18th, 2017 at 10:48 pm
I am sad that neither GSS nor Pulpfiles has brought us more Dick since March.
August 19th, 2017 at 12:25 am
@GSS x-innuendo: after coming to you, Dick needs a little while to rest and get ready for another round.
THANK YOU AND HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND, EVERYONE!
August 21st, 2017 at 5:03 am
I imagine DSWBT put on his sunglasses after that while Roger Daltrey yelled in the background.
August 21st, 2017 at 6:10 am
@Tad (#37):
This makes my brain hurt – Dick Blade is darker above the waist than below. There seem to be three possibilites:
a) DB goes around England (not other dimensions, though; we know he’s nude there) with his shirt off and always wears long pants,
b) DB ran out of sunless tanner halfway through application,
c) there is a very bright light, tightly-focused on DB’s lower half, that is washing out only that part of the picture.
August 21st, 2017 at 6:49 am
@Hammy: since we can’t see below Dick’s butt, he might be going about England with nothing but short pants for all we know.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:07 pm
@Hammy @GSS ex-noob, I choose to believe the difference in colour is a result of the completely plot related “greasing up” he gets from Lord L before starting each adventure as dimension X’s sentient erection.
August 22nd, 2017 at 3:21 am
@DaveM (#44):
You’re probably right. I didn’t think about Lord L and his propensity for “greasing up” DB. However, that just suggests to me that, given Dick’s propensities in Dimension X (or XXX, maybe?), the grease rubs off his lower half.
Which means Dick’s blade really is shiny. 😉
August 22nd, 2017 at 6:35 am
This is still missing the “no pants dance” tag.
@Dave M: But do we know if the grease goes with him? None of the people he meets ever mentions he’s covered in “viscous, dark” grease. His jockstrap or loincloth or whatever disappears when he transports. So might the grease.
(goes back though Pulpfiles recaps)
Oh, it says at the beginning of #3 that he’s tanned and only wearing a pair of white shorts.
That explains his white ass. Covered by the white shorts. I’m not sure how he stays so bronzed in London and Dorset, but Blade is mighty!
August 22nd, 2017 at 6:40 am
@GSSXN(prev.):
Sunless tanning lotion.
August 24th, 2017 at 1:37 am
@Hammy: You’d think he’d apply it to his tush as well. If I was naked in public as much as he is, I’d want an all-over tan. Don’t want the natives snickering at his pearly white bum.
I don’t think he’s orange enough for 60’s-era tanning lotion. He might have a sunlamp.
I bet Lord L would be happy to apply tanning lotion all over along with the mysterious grease. Or a British popsy could do it.
Speculation about what colour his, erm, favorite weapon is is too frightening to contemplate.
October 2nd, 2019 at 1:21 pm
What is her left hand doing?