Jan 10
Click for larger imageGeorge Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.
Published 1980
(Average: 7.05 out of 10)
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George Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.
Published 1980
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January 10th, 2018 at 11:11 am
I think we need a new “face thigh” tag.
January 10th, 2018 at 11:38 am
So, um… how is the sheet staying up in that position?
January 10th, 2018 at 1:01 pm
He’s not just any Faux-nan, he’s an Irish Faux-nan.
January 10th, 2018 at 2:24 pm
Got some white legs there, Cormac. Might want to hit the tanning salon before driving your enemies before you and listening to the lamentations of their women, etc.
January 10th, 2018 at 2:34 pm
(“Don’t grab the blade, don’t grab the blade, don’t grab the blade) Ouch!”
January 10th, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Faux-nans are always fighting giant snakes. It appears this snake is part chameleon and is imitating a sheet to sneak up on its unsuspecting prey.
January 10th, 2018 at 3:00 pm
In my experience, anyone with a name that ostentatiously Oirish is probably really called ‘Dave’ or ‘Len’. The only ‘Cormac’ I ever met had a Brummie accent and preferred to use his middle name, ‘Elliot’.
January 10th, 2018 at 4:40 pm
He taught Michael Hordern in the Up Pompeii movie all he knows.*
*Obscure reference.
January 10th, 2018 at 4:41 pm
“Offutt” sounds a bit like a swear word, or something you say when you just stop yourself swearing, but the spellchecker recognises it. What as, I don’t know.
January 10th, 2018 at 4:53 pm
He’s blocking his face with his sword so the police don’t recognize him in his new gig.
The reasons for the awkwardly-draped bedsheet remain a mystery.
January 10th, 2018 at 5:00 pm
@THX (9): ‘OfNut’ is the government body with oversight responsibilities for Madness tribute bands.
January 10th, 2018 at 5:07 pm
Calling him Robert E. Howard’s “other” hero kind of answers the question at the top of the cover, doesn’t it?
January 10th, 2018 at 5:08 pm
Is Val Kilmer missing his batsuit?
January 10th, 2018 at 5:24 pm
There is no way in hell that dude is running around in the Irish climate “dressed” like that.
January 10th, 2018 at 6:04 pm
“Wait, there are tiny mystic runes engraved on this sword by elven magic. I can barely make out the words. They seem to say, ‘There once was a man from Nantucket …'”
January 10th, 2018 at 8:06 pm
Apparently in the Howard stories he’s a coast raiding pirate that eventually hooks up with Vikings. So…..spare sail?
January 10th, 2018 at 11:39 pm
By Crom, it took half my screen to get past the text. Is this the wordiest title/author bit we’ve seen?
Isn’t he going to trip over that sheet he’s got tucked into his gold coin belt? Fall over and land on his own sword. And what’s with that belt, does he make money on the side as a nude belly dancer?
In the Ancient Times, did they have Ye Olde Ancient Steroids for him to get that build? Talk about Faux-nan. And this was even before Ah-nuld.
MacArt. Wasn’t that program on the first B&W Macintosh in the 80s?
@B’mancer (1): Knee face. Goes with our existing tree face.
@Tom (4): Does he usually maraud shirtless but with full trousers, I wonder? Really, you’d think a sailor would have a more even tan. He doesn’t seem to have toes, though; is this a close-fitting pair of white tights?
@Tat (7): My husband’s got a cousin called Conan. He’s from Chicago. You can imagine the remarks over the years. I forget his middle name, but it’s equally Oirish so that wasn’t much option. I also used to know a Ruaridh, who early in life resigned himself to be called Rory. He didn’t have a middle name.
January 11th, 2018 at 3:53 am
“Now watch as I break this sword with my bare hands.”
#4: these are his party clothes. He normally dresses like that other famous Celtic strongman, Obelix, although with a lower beltline. ( http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/313/987/88e.jpg )
January 11th, 2018 at 6:43 am
“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”
“Oi, are ye blind, mac? It’s a big frinkin’ sword”
January 11th, 2018 at 2:08 pm
@Tor M (15) 😉
January 12th, 2018 at 9:27 am
Every copy writer should know this basic rule: a tagline ending with a question mark is inherently an admission of failure.
January 13th, 2018 at 12:45 am
@ARY: A good rule to follow. Back a few days ago, we decided the Tar-sham question tagline was properly answered D) all of the above.
And of course Betteridge’s Law always applies to taglines with question marks.
Good Show, Scandinavian Sir.
May 4th, 2018 at 10:46 am
What’s holding the sheet up?
September 15th, 2019 at 4:51 pm
GSSxn@17: As to landing on his own sword:
There was a young sailor named Bates
Who danced the fandango on skates—
But a fall on his cutlass
Has rendered him nutless
And practically useless on dates.
Better late than never.
July 15th, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Actually, he’s something like Howard’s fourth or fifth hero, after Brak Mak Morn, Solomon Kane, and King Kull at least: there were only two completed stories, and neither were published during his lifetime. So, this is sort of like those Star Wars novels which tell us about those random background characters in the cantina.
July 15th, 2024 at 10:50 pm
There seems to be a red smear along the middle of his sword. Probably the blood from his left hand.
So I think “no” is indeed the answer to that question.