Nov 22
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: “When he said he was a headhunter I thought he wanted me because of my LinkedIn® profile”.
Published 1975
Finally, the trilogy of terrible Corgi GSS covers is complete. See here and here.
(Average: 7.25 out of 10)
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November 22nd, 2017 at 10:33 am
Don’t you mean “Sword the Neck”?
November 22nd, 2017 at 11:58 am
So this is a story about a baby George Washington beheading people. IJust rename it “Very Young George Washington, Zombie Killer” and it’ll be a surefire hit.
November 22nd, 2017 at 2:08 pm
Higher resolution. He be Capt. Hook without the hook. Capt. Neq Sword?
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Back cover panorama-rama. Looks like the previous two meatheads effed things up royally, so Neq has to put things aright.
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November 22nd, 2017 at 2:34 pm
Only a trilogy? For shame, Mr. Anthony. I mean, these titles practically write themselves; Jin the Wrench. Poc the Mug. Brf the Pen. Kuz the Fork. I’m not even typing with both hands, and I’m building a whole pointless universe.
November 22nd, 2017 at 2:46 pm
I didn’t know that corgis read sci-fi, but if they did I would think they’d have better taste than this.
November 22nd, 2017 at 2:48 pm
First you sword the neck, then you …
November 22nd, 2017 at 2:55 pm
Great! Now we have enough to start our barbershop quartet!
November 22nd, 2017 at 3:18 pm
‘Prostho Plus’ dear, has such teeth, dear
And he keeps them nearly white
Just a rope has Mr Sos, dear,
But his book is just as shite.
And when Var hits with his stick, dear,
Scarlet billows start to spread
Just a sword has Mr Neq, dear –
Neither book is widely read.
In the bedroom, rainy morning
Lies a reader, deeply bored
Someone’s writing a lousy book, sir,
could that book be Neq the Sword?
November 22nd, 2017 at 3:36 pm
I think I finally get it. Stick, rope, sword; it’s like rock ,paper, scissors, except sword always wins.
November 22nd, 2017 at 4:12 pm
♫ Neq the Sword with skulls-a-poppin’
Var Var Var Var Var
and Sos the Rope ♫
November 22nd, 2017 at 5:04 pm
He’s a stranded man from some first-world country with a sword grafted to his left wrist. So he’s taken to headhunting in the ripped-off remains of his khaki pants, leaving his trophies on spears to give trespassers fair warning.
November 22nd, 2017 at 5:06 pm
I imagine that Sos and Var are always having to explain to people how Neq is actually a good guy once you get to know him.
November 22nd, 2017 at 5:34 pm
It occurs to me how mixed-up all of this is. Really, you can rope a neck and stick a sword. Perhaps some index cards got spilled on the floor and picked up in the wrong order.
November 22nd, 2017 at 7:22 pm
@Tat Wood–
The reviews are in!
“Brilliant!”–Kurt Weill
“I’ve heard better.”–Bobby Darin
November 22nd, 2017 at 8:15 pm
@Tat Wood
“In a class by itself” — Gordon R. 🍆son
November 22nd, 2017 at 9:56 pm
Sos has a bird, Var has a Bird, Neq has…..what looks like a far off granite pluton covered in ginormous lichen. Or any one of innumerable pieces of foliage which may or may not be hiding birds or Birds or both or neither.
November 23rd, 2017 at 2:11 am
Um… it’s less homoerotic than the others?
I really don’t understand his anatomy. It’s a manly body with a giant child size head pasted on. Anatomical issues. Perhaps he beheads people and then swaps their cabeza for his, which explains how his head in no way matches his body.
@fred: Oooh, the covers did get worse and more stupid, didn’t they? Oh, for our innocent days when we thought Sos was as bad as it got.
I can see why Neq is last — really, a sword is much more effective than a rope and a stick.
@Lillie: And knowing the way Piers has milked Xanth for decades, it’s a wonder he didn’t go on with Brf and Kuz.
@Tat: bravo. Swingin’. Which this artist should do, on the end of Sos’ rope.
November 23rd, 2017 at 3:28 am
I don’t think Neq-ing with a sword is a very good idea. See what happened to the last person to try it?
November 23rd, 2017 at 9:48 pm
Should there be a “small men with big heads” tag?
November 24th, 2017 at 4:58 pm
@GSS ex-noob: After a second look, I am in complete agreement over the anatomical issues. Summoning the Tag Wizard! Hopefully!
September 19th, 2019 at 9:34 am
Corgi Serial Killer Library
September 20th, 2019 at 6:48 am
While I still maintain Neq has a child-proportion head, another look has me thinking his head appears to be copied off some portrait more suited to appearing on US currency or maybe a painting in a stately home. Definitely Georgian (both Washington and King III).
Which looks even odder on the beach with skulls.