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Click for larger imageDead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: Strewth, the lady at the checkout counter made a point of saying, “Have a blessed day, sir,” twice during our transaction!
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Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Comments: The back cover blurb. This will be as close as I get to actually reading it until I’m done with my Henry James.
Published 2009
(Average: 5.95 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
August 8th, 2017 at 12:56 pm
A Spock eyebrow doesn’t rate a tag?
There may be one or more former Disney Channel “stars” on this cover.
August 8th, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Three redheaded dominatrices? Just a moment while I Google that.
August 8th, 2017 at 1:23 pm
Gentleman, didn’t you say “stay away from me” and I wished you good day Sir. Have a good day.
August 8th, 2017 at 2:36 pm
@FB – Googling “Frost-Haired Vixen” is how I learned about MELFs!
August 8th, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Is Lithium Radioactive ? I don’t mean to be pedantic but isn’t three electrons Li ?
Surely the artist could off painted all 92 electrons of uranium 235 ?
August 8th, 2017 at 2:45 pm
@MisterBob – She’s on lithium because she’s so depressed she’s on this cover.
August 8th, 2017 at 2:53 pm
@fred – Find me two covers with “Spock eyebrow” and I’ll start a tag.
August 8th, 2017 at 3:05 pm
@MB: three PROTONS is Lithium, this is a severely imbalanced H^-2 ion. I’d say that I’m positive, but that could only lead to the most dire consequences…
August 8th, 2017 at 3:11 pm
Disappointed there’s no “Inside of a Crunchie Blonde”.
August 8th, 2017 at 4:22 pm
Mmm, that was interesting.
@DSWBT
You may be positive but I’m uncertain that those electrons are drawn in the correct positions.
August 8th, 2017 at 6:16 pm
I can’t talk about any hydrogen ions that are classified, and that’s a shame…
August 8th, 2017 at 9:10 pm
The third book in this series, Atomic Blonde, has just been adapted into a major motion picture starring Charlize Theron!
August 8th, 2017 at 11:06 pm
Is that a radioactive hat? It looks like it’s attached to her forehead.
August 9th, 2017 at 12:32 am
And that radioactive redhead became Leader of the Free World! OK, soon-to-be radioactive redhead…
August 9th, 2017 at 2:03 am
What are Anthony Scaramucci, Katy Perry, and Karen Gillan all doing on the same book cover?
August 9th, 2017 at 4:47 am
The blurb makes it sound like an entertaining read, at least for someone with a bad sense of humor like me. I know I shouldn’t trust it, but I just might try to find a copy.
August 9th, 2017 at 5:14 am
These authors aren’t half as clever as they think they are. Even back in the pulp days, they generally didn’t throw EVERY cliche into one story.
Presumably the lithium is to help with the bipolar disorder… or certainly for the manic episode this cover is. If ever a piece of “art” needed lithium, this is it. Lithium is classed as a “miscellaneous antipsychotic”, which sounds like just what the doctor should order for this book.
Um, the anatomy isn’t too bad, except for the girl in green missing a navel.
August 9th, 2017 at 9:10 am
@Tag Wizard, Searching for single raised eyebrows (aka: spock brow) raised these two:
The Demon Wizard in The Adventures of Myhr
and Virgin Planet is positively loaded with single raised eyebrows.
Does this mean we get a new tag?
August 11th, 2017 at 5:21 am
@Tom Noir: Atomic Blonde was adapted from a comic book with a completely different title, not a book in this series.
I wonder why the Radioactive Redhead is attempting to cosplay as a Batman villain, for I can see no good reason for her to do so. As for the Frost-Haired Vixen, I can only conclude that she’s attempting to dress in a seasonally appropriate fashion.
August 11th, 2017 at 12:56 pm
@Anna T: Yes, I’m aware. Jokes!
August 16th, 2017 at 1:52 pm
The cover and back cover suffer from a severe case of College Radio Syndrome…
You know those college radio stations where two self-appointed “funny guys” just blather on for hours, clearly believing that their self-absorbed improv is God’s Gift To Comedy, and it’s never funny? Same thing.
August 16th, 2017 at 2:44 pm
@AR: that’s called “Radio Syndrome”, for tragically obvious reasons…
August 18th, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Ooh, the audio book covers are even worse!
https://www.amazon.com/John-Zakour-and-Lawrence-Ganem/e/B00JAXO8OM
Apparently, our hero and thus the series are called… Zach.
Zach, PI. Zach the gumshoe. Shamus Zach.
Not really in the same class as Spade, Marlowe, or Magnum, eh?
Was unable to find out if either writer ever did radio.
March 20th, 2022 at 7:12 pm
I think the atomic diagram that the radioactive redhead is sporting is not lithium but the 2s and 2p orbitals of Neon. I say that because I do not know how you get an atom with only one electron in every suborbital of an electron configuration. Such an atom has much bigger problems than mere radioactivity. So I have to assume that I am supposed to count orbitals not balls and that each orbital is filled because they are all drawn the same way.
Now there are radioactive isotopes of neon – the longest half life of which is a little over three minutes. Zack is going to have to solve this case rather quickly.
March 21st, 2022 at 1:17 am
@JJYoyo: As a former chemistry major, I salute you.
Now, if it’s trying to signify lithium, it may be a cry for help and medication for those involved with this project.
If it’s neon, well… there’s a lot of glow there.
March 20th, 2025 at 12:09 pm
When ‘Ballistic Babes’ came up as today’s random terrible cover title I expected something with space sheep, big space sheep. Just shows you never can tell.
April 1st, 2025 at 12:42 pm
The ginge seems to have been born with three legs but had the left one amputated, so she’s crossed the middle one over the right. This must cause havoc when she’s buying knickers. Or using a toilet.
April 3rd, 2025 at 12:04 am
Don’t know how I missed this first time around. I think I was laid up in bed. I’d like to say it was with a frost-haired vixen, I think it was just a touch of flu. GSS to all!
April 3rd, 2025 at 6:31 am
I think that’s Robbie the Robot disguising himself as a chair and blowing a gasket because the Frost-Haired Vixen is performing a (smirky) lap dance.
April 19th, 2025 at 8:55 am
At some point I saw this in person. It was even more garish.