Mar 30
Click for full imageRaoul Comments: Humankind’s new enemy? I thought Cortez did a number on them half a millennium ago.
Published 1996
(Average: 7.28 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: Humankind’s new enemy? I thought Cortez did a number on them half a millennium ago.
Published 1996
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March 30th, 2017 at 1:35 pm
Author of Above the Lower Sky and other stupidly named books presents…
THE DEMONS IN THE GREEN; or, ‘I can’t spell “Quetzalcoatl” and I must scream’
March 30th, 2017 at 1:37 pm
‘Thunderbird O’Conner’. The hero’s name is fucking Thunderbird O’Conner’. If the author isn’t on the piss, I’m about to be.
March 30th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Is this science fiction or a Mountain Dew commercial?
March 30th, 2017 at 1:48 pm
Given the amount of naked young manflesh on display here I’m guessing this isn’t about a unusually lively English village cricket match.
March 30th, 2017 at 2:47 pm
These dudes must be related to this guy. Or maybe this guy. Or is it this guy?
March 30th, 2017 at 3:17 pm
Male flesh on display? Check. Bright colours? Check. Rock and roll music? Check. All we need is a park or community centre to save, and we have an 80s teen film!
March 30th, 2017 at 3:38 pm
Those dolphin/killer-whale tails indicate that we’re seeing the middle segment of a truncated movie poster.
March 30th, 2017 at 3:40 pm
Inca Malmstein? Eddie Mayan Halen? Aztec Young? OK, Carlos Santana it is.
March 30th, 2017 at 4:08 pm
The humankind has a new enemy, alright. Lurking somewhere below the upper case, probably.
March 30th, 2017 at 4:20 pm
Animal tails. A bird hat. An electric guitar. A castle. Water.
And, of course, Thunderbird O’Conner.
Well this book certainly seems bad, just looking at it.
March 30th, 2017 at 4:24 pm
…golf.
March 30th, 2017 at 6:29 pm
Guitar god is going to get a chaffed nipple from that strap.
March 30th, 2017 at 8:50 pm
The positioning of the two gentlemen, two tails, contrasting colours and the wavey line between them suggests a yin and yang symbol…a stupid, stupid one.
March 31st, 2017 at 1:35 am
Well, Aztec rock ‘n rollers would definitely be up high in the Hardcore Metal hierarchy what with the heart-removal of some audience member at the finale
March 31st, 2017 at 5:16 am
Dozens of colors on this cover and the author’s name is the same color as the background. It’s not like he had any shame, what with an Irish-Aztec hero who has a first name from neither culture, and orcas, which aren’t much associated with either place. And then there’s the electric guitar and the dragon.
I’d like to tag this “font problems” as well; 4 different ones in 4 different colors, including one that’s either indicating “groovy” (20+ years too late) or “seasick” (yep).
March 31st, 2017 at 5:33 am
Did I hear
?
Oh yeah.
March 31st, 2017 at 5:55 am
Oooh! Almost-instant gratification.
March 31st, 2017 at 9:30 am
“Greetings, people of Seattle! We are Aztec Beefcake, and we’re here to sweep you off your feet like a tidal wave! Here’s our first song, dedicated to our ocean brothers and sisters, called ‘Rock You Like a Killer Whale’! One-two-three-four…”
April 1st, 2017 at 5:48 pm
@DSWBT: Along with the community center, there needs to be either a fist-fight or a dance-off. I’m not picky: we could have both…
April 1st, 2017 at 10:41 pm
@infoqueen: They start with a fist fight, then someone says they should solve their problems non-violently, and then the dance-off begins, live music by Aztec Beefcake.
April 2nd, 2017 at 2:12 am
@iq, GSS choreographer: everyone must laugh at some point, too, I believe…
April 2nd, 2017 at 7:37 am
This is what happens when a desperate author tries to find inspiration by pulling random words out of a hat.
“Let’s see, I’ve got… Cathedral… Dragon… Aztec… Whale… Stratocaster. All I have to do is somehow write a novel around them!”
April 2nd, 2017 at 12:35 pm
We’ve found the token female of the band. Her character arc is learning to ‘be herself’ and ‘expose some flesh’.
April 3rd, 2017 at 2:28 am
And demon’d on de green…
April 3rd, 2017 at 3:09 am
@DSWBT: that would be us.
August 22nd, 2017 at 11:42 am
A deadly game of golf against the hordes of Hell — their only hope was to beat
THE DEMONS IN THE GREEN
August 24th, 2017 at 2:17 am
The infernal creatures liked to roll around in piles of US money — they were
THE DEMONS IN THE GREEN.
August 24th, 2017 at 8:54 pm
The shocking truth about Popeye’s spinach addiction — and his struggle to quit
THE DEMONS IN THE GREEN
August 25th, 2017 at 12:14 am
They said they were L.A.’s newest jam band…but they were really just recording
THE DEMOS IN THE GREEK
August 25th, 2017 at 1:51 am
The creatures from the DOOM game like to play golf together on weekends … they were …
THE DAEMONS ON THE GREEN
August 25th, 2017 at 1:51 am
Diamonds in the Greek sky
August 25th, 2017 at 4:29 am
@DSWBT: So that’s where Aztec Beefcake cut a few tracks! Before or after the dance-off?
July 17th, 2023 at 3:34 pm
I’m just glad there’s no “free willy” on the cover, if you know what I mean.
July 17th, 2023 at 8:55 pm
“Cultural Appropriation: the Movie.” Now streaming on Netflix!
July 18th, 2023 at 7:19 pm
This cover… erm.. I don’t know where to start… besides the obvious cringyness, what’s the “porpoise” of the marine mammals and bubbly water?
Makes about as much sense as this beauty also mocked at GSS:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=2283
(I’ve read this one, printed with a less goofy cover, otherwise I would have left it on the shelf. The art does depict a scene from the book, but my imagination painted it in a far more sophisticated fashion.)
Also @DSWBT #1 and @ARY #18 – snicker!
July 18th, 2023 at 8:48 pm
“Thunderbird O’Connor”?
Related to… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pmJlHxfGSE ?
July 18th, 2023 at 11:11 pm
@Emster: Well spotted! Don’t think an electric guitar works on orca-back, though.
I really miss DSWBT.
@Tat: Would even Des stoop so low? He’d certainly have to import the waxed beefcake.
July 19th, 2023 at 4:09 am
@GSSxn--amen to missing DSWBT.
July 19th, 2023 at 4:30 pm
@ex-Noob (37): err… why?
July 19th, 2023 at 9:05 pm
@Tat: Would Des play the beefcakes himself, then?
July 20th, 2023 at 5:08 pm
@ex-noob: he doesn’t need to. Apart from Troy Tempest, there’s a steady stream of Boy Bands and Reality Show applicants, delivery-drivers and weekend footballers. UK Politicians talk about an obesity crisis but, compared to America, a fairly high proportion of blokes in Blighty could have modelled for Rowena. Why import any?
(This is your cue for more tired, dated WWII-era ethnic sneers and a jibe against native New Yorker Boris Johnson. Don’t bother – it just makes people who do look insular and clueless.)
July 20th, 2023 at 7:46 pm
“Insular” seems kind of funny coming from a guy who lives on an island…
I suppose there could be some Native American beefcakes over there if they wanted to be authentic, but the footballers and such would do. We never see most of them here (having plenty of our own beefcake), mostly what we get is the pale weedy chaps. Though having just watched the latest 007, Mr. Craig is plenty beefcake.
I would never jibe against Boris for his origin or current residence. I would put him down for his stupid haircut and complete and utter criminal wankery, as is proper.
I’ve looked this book up on Goodreads and it says “No one you know has read this book”. Considering most of the people I know there are major sci-fi nerds who’ve read damn near anything, that’s… something. The author didn’t use his BA and MA in Medieval English any here.
Check out the first book’s cover…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/981842.Above_the_Lower_Sky
I’m not sure how the dolphins are going to be much help at the cathedral.
Maybe the orcas that are currently ramming boats are protesting these books?