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Click to embiggen that spacesuit
Trudy Comments: Finally! A spacesuit for the full-figured gal!
Published 1998
Click to embiggen that spacesuit
Trudy Comments: Finally! A spacesuit for the full-figured gal!
Published 1998
August 23rd, 2017 at 6:27 am
Rules of Engagement #1 – Never truthfully answer the question “Does this spacesuit make me look fat?”
August 23rd, 2017 at 9:33 am
What’s Sarah Palin doing in space?
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:19 am
“Did I ever tell you of the time when I got trapped in the washing machine?”
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:44 am
I don’t think she’s full-figured, I think she’s overcompensating. Insecurity and big guns are no longer a male preserve. Time to celebrate folks!
August 23rd, 2017 at 11:46 am
Goodness, ma’am, you’re smushing the author’s name!
August 23rd, 2017 at 12:27 pm
I needed to do a double-take before I saw the author’s name at the bottom. Wonder if this was intentional – not that the author had any control over how her name was presented – a cover like this, I might want to hide my connection to it as well.
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:46 pm
@LB: I guarantee you that that name is done in super-shiny chrome and the camera just couldn’t pick it up right.
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:46 pm
Speaking of which – Tag Wizard, don’t you think it is time we had a Shiny! tag?
August 23rd, 2017 at 1:53 pm
That is one kick-ass Pez dispenser.
August 23rd, 2017 at 2:07 pm
And that is one mean stapler. Bet it can do 12 pages at once.
August 23rd, 2017 at 2:32 pm
Her neck must be at least a foot long. If those are her hands in those gauntlets she must also have a disproportionately tiny head.
August 23rd, 2017 at 2:52 pm
In the future, office administrative assistants will protect themselves from sexual harassment with armored power suits and military-grade staple guns.
August 23rd, 2017 at 2:56 pm
I can’t see her Adam’s Apple so I am withholding judgement on the ‘damsel’ tag.
August 23rd, 2017 at 3:29 pm
@fred: brow ridge and jaw line also imply damsel.
I don’t think they screwed her head into the neck socket properly.
August 23rd, 2017 at 3:36 pm
Rules of Baen Covers #1: “Any anatomy issues are less important than showing off some rad, bitchin’ space armor.”
August 23rd, 2017 at 4:00 pm
I know this is a strange nitpick, but those stenciled “8”s on her armor aren’t angled enough to fit the perspective of the planes they’re supposed to sit on. It’s a minor detail but just jarring enough that it really draws the eye.
August 23rd, 2017 at 6:17 pm
She wants to know where the ring is.
August 23rd, 2017 at 7:17 pm
The power suit must also be equipped with a continuous hair styling feature. She. Looks. Fabulous!
August 23rd, 2017 at 8:08 pm
The Pez dispenser/stapler triples as a hair dryer.
August 23rd, 2017 at 10:28 pm
Q: is there anything the Pez dispenser/stapler/dryer can’t do?
A: shoot a projectile.
August 24th, 2017 at 1:27 am
Isn’t there already a “so shiny” tag, and shouldn’t it be on 99% of BAEN!pew pew?
This also has anatomical issues — her neck and arms can’t be that long.
This is pretty mild for them. Sure, her suit and stapler are overcompensating, and there’s shiny, but there are no ‘splosions, spaceships, orange text. Only 1-2 fonts, and no cleavage.
I read the book to which this is a sequel, so that is technically a damsel, though she’s very determinedly tough and non-girly at all.
The author was a Marine, so at least her military stuff is realistic, unlike many of the armchair warrior boys who write for the house.
August 24th, 2017 at 5:36 am
That’s O.J.’s glove she’s wearing.
August 24th, 2017 at 2:38 pm
One and only rule of engagement is to have faith even in the most difficult circumstances.
August 25th, 2017 at 8:14 am
Pat Benatar goes to space!
August 25th, 2017 at 10:12 pm
She’s the love child of Pat Benatar and Mariska Hargitay. In spaaaace.
August 25th, 2017 at 11:59 pm
Why is the neckline of the suit asymmetrical? I mean, really, I’m surprised no one else has noticed this. It’s asymmetrical, and there’s no good reason for it at all.
August 26th, 2017 at 1:18 am
@Anna T: the base of the helmet is asymmetrical too. That’s so when you’re in a rush out the door, you don’t accidentally put your helmet on backwards and muss up your hair. ๐
August 26th, 2017 at 11:54 pm
@Anna T: maybe the whole top bit is asymmetrical. Might explain why her neck seems to be at an impossible angle; perhaps the suit construction is far different from what we’re expecting.
Or, y’know, a bad artist.
August 28th, 2017 at 12:24 am
@Ann T.โthe suit is asymmetrical so we don’t miss even a millimeter of that killer jawline.
August 28th, 2017 at 10:03 pm
RULES OF EMBARRASSMENT
THE SEQUEL TO ONCE A GOATFUCKER…
August 28th, 2017 at 10:05 pm
Maybe it’s just a robot that’s mounted the severed head of Tracy Scoggins on its hood as a trophy.
September 6th, 2017 at 6:32 pm
I might be wrong…but is her mid-rif exposed? If so, the armor becomes pretty useless.
September 7th, 2017 at 4:34 pm
Space armor is always useless. (Ask legions of hapless Stormtroopers.)
December 31st, 2022 at 2:29 pm
The literal embodiment of the term “bumper bullets”….
January 1st, 2023 at 12:31 am
Remember, kids – don’t Space Marine without a helmet!
@Tat Wood: you may have something there. Maybe it’s a fake head meant to draw enemy fire.
January 2nd, 2023 at 9:59 pm
@Bruce: Could be a mannequin displaying the latest armor and hair/makeup style for the fashionable ladies.
Down at the Space Marine Corps Exchange,10% off this week only!
The only rules of engagement I ever followed involved a diamond ring, parents meeting, save the date cards, etc. And soo much planning.
January 3rd, 2023 at 2:28 am
I see I’m not the only one ready to get back to a regular schedule, which includes a healthy dose of GSS!
@Tag Wizard – If she’s one of the investigators who tracks credit card thieves, I’d like to watch that go down!
January 4th, 2023 at 5:15 pm
Proof that “giving head to a Mega Drive” is/was someone’s fetish…