Nov 16
Click for larger imageKang N. Kodos Comments: … leprechaun antennae, lollipop gun, spinnin’ in his grave … Tag Wizard is gonna have to up his game!
Published 1990
(Average: 8.30 out of 10)
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Kang N. Kodos Comments: … leprechaun antennae, lollipop gun, spinnin’ in his grave … Tag Wizard is gonna have to up his game!
Published 1990
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November 16th, 2017 at 9:37 am
I’m disappointed in you Ace. All that embossing and not a drop of metallic ink in sight.
November 16th, 2017 at 10:15 am
I’m wondering what the three disco guys are dancing to: going by the fashions, possibly something early eighties new-romantic?
November 16th, 2017 at 11:09 am
Fantastic Voyage 2: Round the Outside.
November 16th, 2017 at 11:10 am
I’m really hoping all this happens together in one scene in the book.
November 16th, 2017 at 12:08 pm
“Congratulations, ma’am! It’s a boy! And three other boys!”
November 16th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
@StevenLP: Was there ever any doubt?
November 16th, 2017 at 1:10 pm
Professor Widdlebee there is really zoning in with that telescope.
November 16th, 2017 at 1:43 pm
If this is Farmer then there must be some actual historical characters on the cover.
Cleopatra, Boss Tweed, Crassus, Nikola Tesla.
November 16th, 2017 at 2:01 pm
I hope whoever’s piloting the aerial rhythmic gymnastics routine is wearing one heck of a robust g-suit. Also wrapping-paper Crassus looks absorbed in some really deep thought. Seems a shame to pull him away from that to pose for this crummy cover.
November 16th, 2017 at 3:32 pm
@Lillie A—that’s not Crassus, that’s Zero Mostel! And he’s thinking “Hmmmm, I guess a funny thing really did happen to me on the way to the Forum.”
November 16th, 2017 at 3:35 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Brilliant!
November 16th, 2017 at 3:51 pm
Dayworld Rebel
Riverworld Saga
Seaworld Fishiness
Circusworld Clownshow
Disneyworld Scam
Waterworld Flop
Endoftheworld Relief
November 16th, 2017 at 4:25 pm
It’s fun to die at the Y … M … C … A!
November 16th, 2017 at 4:29 pm
Tag Wizard *did* up his game, as evinced by the brand-new “lollipop gun” tag.
November 16th, 2017 at 4:33 pm
@B. Chiclitz: that explains why the Booklist reviewer wrote ‘appealling’…
November 16th, 2017 at 4:36 pm
I suppose the flapper and the steampunk-ish man are observing the guy in the cocoon, whose inner selves seem to be dancing the night away. I have to wonder if he’s a security risk, and what the exiles from the Middle Ages and possibly Ancient Rome think about this.
For that matter, why do the two men in the background look so similar? They’re not time-travelling relatives, are they?
November 16th, 2017 at 5:04 pm
@Tor M, Tag W—love that “Lollipop Gun” tag. Brilliant! When she shoots somebody with it she can say: “Take this, sucker!” and she won’t even need the comma!!
November 16th, 2017 at 6:15 pm
And her revenge will be sweet.
November 16th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
@Tor – But she can be licked.
November 16th, 2017 at 11:21 pm
Scene: a dark, green-lit alleyway.
Footsteps running.
An abrupt *clang!* as someone collides with a garbage can.
Dorothy: SHIT!
Dorothy looks furtively behind her as Toto runs to her side, whimpering.
At once, dark shadows appear in the alleyway. Short, dark shadows.
Leader: We represent…the Lollipop Guild. Welcome to Munchkin Land, bitch.
November 17th, 2017 at 4:18 am
GSS, DSWBT.
The LOL-i-pop gun was one of the first things I noticed about this cover. I suppose the orange ball could be a permanent part of the gun and shoots lasers or waves or something. But it does look like it fires lollipops.
The lollipop is too big to travel down the barrel of the gun. That means this must be a single-shot muzzle-loader — that is, a lollipop musket. In that case, flapper Cleopatra really should be wearing a bandolier of suckers in a variety of calibers: orange, grape, cherry, root beer, tutti-frutti with a chocolate center, etc. Which means that if she is ever caught in the rain, she would stick to anyone she hugs.
Unless we are all mistaken and it’s a bubble-gum gun.
November 17th, 2017 at 5:06 am
@Tag W: I think the Blue Man Group are “starkers”. Does the spaceship lower right count?
@BC: I think BOTH guys in the background are Zero Mostel! On the right, from “Forum”; on the left, probably from some variety show skit.
@DSWBT: So someone’s really most sincerely dead?
Did she get the lollipop gun from Evil Clone Gone Bad Of Willy Wonka over on the other side?
Is the guy in the middle moving forward, not backward; upward, not forward; and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom?
Can anyone find another lollipop gun? Are they as common as hairdryer guns?
November 17th, 2017 at 5:11 am
PEOPLE.
STOP THE PRESSES.
I’m not going to give you a direct link.
I’m just going to warn you that it’s a worse cover than we see here.
It features Cheeto Mussolini, the Great Orange Fascist.
It’s written entirely by the Sad/Rabid Puppies.
It’s an incredibly horrible cover.
Ready?
Search for “MAGA 2020 and Beyond”.
Then apply bleach, brain bleach, anti-emetics, and clear your browser. (You will have already tossed your cookies)
Be strong. Don’t do it on an empty stomach or in public.
I apologize, but I needed to share the horror.
November 17th, 2017 at 10:19 am
Oh My Gawd!
November 17th, 2017 at 11:39 am
The cover is horrid. But combined with the blurb…?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
November 18th, 2017 at 12:55 am
Some people actually essayed the “writing”.
The cover and blurb underestimate the horror.
Apparently the original cover idea was Hair Fuhrer riding a unicorn, but that was thought to be too ridiculous.
I wish I was making this up.
Previous comment, I meant to say “Don’t look at it on a FULL stomach.” I had just eaten an In-N-Out Double-Double, surely the Platonic ideal of fast food, and nearly tasted it again the wrong way.
November 18th, 2017 at 1:16 am
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