Apr 24
Good Show Sir Comments: The Most Interesting Man in the World says: I don’t always drink beer. Cause I’m usually smokin’ opium.
Published 1991
Good Show Sir Comments: The Most Interesting Man in the World says: I don’t always drink beer. Cause I’m usually smokin’ opium.
Published 1991
April 24th, 2017 at 1:13 pm
The fish on the wall behind the ‘The’ is the clue: he’s letting the daemons escape so he can tell people “you shoulda seen the ones that got away’. It’ll be a small comfort in the last hours of life in this dimension.
April 24th, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Oh yeah, he’s so laid back he can inhale smoke through his nipples.
April 24th, 2017 at 1:34 pm
“Intricate, enigmatic, and as colorful as a fifty dollar box of crayons.”
—Gene Wolfe, award-winning author of Stupid Similes and When to Use Them.
April 24th, 2017 at 1:51 pm
‘Hm…how to write the kids out of my will…hm…’
April 24th, 2017 at 1:53 pm
It’s really amazing that the text is casting shadows on this guy.
April 24th, 2017 at 1:58 pm
If you were clickbaited to this post because of some #nipslip hashtag, you must be sorely disappointed.
April 24th, 2017 at 2:04 pm
“I like this position because it shows off my good nipple.”
April 24th, 2017 at 2:07 pm
You darned kids and your cricket balls! You’ll have to pay for that!
April 24th, 2017 at 2:13 pm
One should never sit with one’s back to a demonic lantern. Denis Healey is Lord Byron is J. R. R. Tolkien is Thomas de Quincy.
April 24th, 2017 at 2:13 pm
Best ever use of the “tasteful smoke” tag.
April 24th, 2017 at 4:06 pm
Gene don’t know crayons. $50+ bulk boxes 16 colors. Ultimate Crayon Collection $17.99 – 152 colors.
April 24th, 2017 at 4:06 pm
The old man in white clothing showing off his hairy chest is so, so ’70s.
April 24th, 2017 at 4:12 pm
The relic isn’t as insane as this cover. Well, actually, no. This cover isn’t insane at all; it’s just naff. Insane is a woman on stage in a bear suit eating a chicken leg and this cover’s not even in the running.
April 24th, 2017 at 4:39 pm
@B.Chiclitz: that book was retitled ‘The Castle of the Otter’
April 24th, 2017 at 5:02 pm
All right, which one of you Illusionists is making me read relic when it is clearly spelled relict.
April 24th, 2017 at 5:19 pm
@Anna T.—And maybe early Eighties too, with some variation on the clothing/hair coloring.
April 24th, 2017 at 5:24 pm
Wot no …Khaaaan !!! Tag ?
Otherwise love the green text on green background – so easy to read !
April 24th, 2017 at 5:36 pm
THE ILLUSIONISTS
Nothing in the sleeve, eh? Now watch:
HUE TONSILITIS
And behold!
HOIST NULLITIES
And again…
SOLUTE NIHILIST
And one more:
TIT ILLUSIONS EH?
Thank you very much! HE TOILS I INSULT
April 24th, 2017 at 6:30 pm
@MisterBob Now that you mention the green text, it seems like everything on this cover is trying to hide.
April 24th, 2017 at 7:09 pm
@DSWBigT—
THUS ILL STONE IS I
April 24th, 2017 at 11:26 pm
How GOB Bluth sees himself.
April 25th, 2017 at 12:48 am
The book is blowing a raspberry!
April 25th, 2017 at 11:56 am
Questions:
1. Did the original paperback have gold-embossed lettering that looks darker on this photo? (Actually, gold-embossed lettering is even worse.)
2. Did the Art Department forget the rule about how to make text legible in a detailed cover painting?
3. Is the old man too deaf or too stoned to hear the relic crack RIGHT BEHIND HIS HEAD?
April 26th, 2017 at 1:06 am
@MisterBob: Can you blame the text for wanting to hide and not be associated with this “art”? I can’t. Poor text.
April 28th, 2017 at 5:12 pm
Later in life, after the divorce, Lucius Malfoy still fancied himself quite the ladies man though he had turned to opiates and vengeful house-elfs kept breaking his stuff.
April 29th, 2017 at 7:05 pm
Ricardo Montalban seems to be reading several different books at once, since most of the ones in that stack are open.