Dec 20
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: “I thought your ‘Ladies Drink Free’ promotion would attract more women into the club. What are we doing wrong?”
Published 1989
(Average: 6.59 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: “I thought your ‘Ladies Drink Free’ promotion would attract more women into the club. What are we doing wrong?”
Published 1989
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December 20th, 2017 at 11:29 am
Man, this is a classy joint… you even get a massage.
December 20th, 2017 at 12:03 pm
….drunk co-pilot and a hot date. Just thought I would point out the error.
That table hologram is the same floor show George Smiley watched in the Smiley’s People mini-series. I believe he called it ‘very artistic’.
December 20th, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Somebody please open the airlock.
December 20th, 2017 at 2:09 pm
One not liking it at Goodreads:
This is a small book where almost nothing happens. It’s a play on a space heist storyline, which holds a lot of promise.
The book has a flippant tone without ever being satirical. The whole things reads like a formula cliché. The majority of the characters are formulaic and 2 dimensional. The woman are either promiscuous, shrew-like, or both. The men are generally clueless and stupid.
The old trope of “Everything could be resolved if the characters talked to each other” is so over used that it seems the only way the author can build tension.
I was looking for a good old space romp with some shenanigans, what I got was 250 pages of bland characters, insulting stereotypes, and weak plot.
December 20th, 2017 at 2:45 pm
BDSM tag maybe? Wouldn’t it be awesome if when someone searched BDSM and the first site to come up was GSS?
Also, I think I recognize these “actors”
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bloodworld.jpg
December 20th, 2017 at 2:55 pm
In the future, you’ll go to the pub to watch your porn.
December 20th, 2017 at 5:02 pm
Funny-looking hand on screen behind the bar; Funny-looking hand of Herrera on shoulder of Betty Page fan.
December 20th, 2017 at 5:57 pm
Try this. While sitting at a table, lean to your right until the right side of your face is on the table like Mr. Passed-Out Guy there. Now consider where the rest of your body is in relation to the guy sitting next to you.
They must be close friends.
December 20th, 2017 at 6:39 pm
@tor surely you aren’t suggesting…CONJOINED TWINS???
December 20th, 2017 at 6:51 pm
I swear more artistic care was given to the flowery shirt than any other part of the cover.
December 20th, 2017 at 7:54 pm
Do you think, when the author was but a small boy, his mother, when scolding him for his boyish wrongdoings, would begin by saying “Joe Clifford?” in that tone of voice? All of his young life he awaited that dreadful sound, “Joe Clifford?,” “Joe Clifford?!,” “Joe Clifford!!” Until he finally cracked and became a writer out of revenge. I think that accounts for the table hologram.
December 20th, 2017 at 8:02 pm
@B. “Chclitz” – You’re gonna hafta start spelling your fake name right or you’ll end up in permanent moderation. 🙂
December 20th, 2017 at 8:16 pm
@JuanPaul: Yes, conjoined twins. Their bodies are occupying the same space. How else could that be? 😇
December 20th, 2017 at 8:30 pm
@Tor #8 – I tried your suggestion and the guy at the bar next to me slipped me his phone number!
December 20th, 2017 at 9:22 pm
@Tag Wizard—Why, I feel like a ruddy schoolboy. Thanks for your indulgence.
December 20th, 2017 at 9:49 pm
@Raoul: LOL!
December 20th, 2017 at 9:49 pm
This looks suspiciously like futuristic MacGyver/Jack Dalton slash from 1993. In which case the hologram might actually be raising the tone a little.
December 20th, 2017 at 11:38 pm
The Rock in a Hawaiian shirt doesn’t look happy with the Harvey-esque gent. Meanwhile, Captain Mal has passed out drunk and Zoe’s probably looking for him.
Also, this is the gayest bar I’ve seen in a while, and I live near San Francisco.
@B’mancer (4): So at least the cover matches the contents.
@JuanPaul (5): well spotted.
@Tor (8): see my first para. and Raoul’s comment.
@Tat (17): ‘Cept Mac wouldn’t be drunk. Or smoking. But yeah.
Guess Mr. Mattingly missed part of “How to Draw Hands” week at UAI. Probably skipped out on Friday to go to a bar, having only learned how to draw one right hand, forced to use that for everyone on this cover.
May 21st, 2020 at 11:10 pm
“See the depraved future of the year 2020, when cyberpunks watch sleazy single-color holograms in bars with – wonder of wonders – wall screens!”
May 22nd, 2020 at 2:43 am
@ARY: We had color Jumbotrons in 1989, so I don’t see why the artist’s imagination didn’t extend to a future bar having a full-color TV that didn’t have to come as a mosaic of screens. Especially as “giant TV you can hang on the wall” was already a well-worn trope for the The Future. Nor can I explain why the holograms are only one color when this book came out 12 years after “Star Wars”.
Maybe it’s a retro 1980s themed (gay) bar, which would also explain the pack of Marlboros.
May 23rd, 2020 at 1:29 am
Consider how the Hawaiian shirt guy is drawing his pistol. Is he planning on reaching his right hand all the way around his left ear to point it at the menacing masseuse?
Unless he is VERY flexible, he is not otherwise going to clear his jacket, the passed out guy, and the menacing masseuse’s right hand in any meaningful manner.
Except perhaps to fire it at the monochrome hologram for some reason.
May 23rd, 2020 at 6:17 am
@Ryan: Very true.
Maybe the big guy is doing a Vulcan nerve pinch and telling Hawaiian shirt guy to “ease that gat out slow”. Or asking him to shoot the hologram or the passed-out guy.