Jan 31
Good Show Sir Comments: “Hey! You! Climb down off the seafood buffet!”
Published 1971
Thanks to Sérgio for sending this in!
(Average: 7.10 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: “Hey! You! Climb down off the seafood buffet!”
Published 1971
Thanks to Sérgio for sending this in!
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January 31st, 2018 at 11:56 am
Ah, the old double take and fade away, we do the double take and he fades away. With embarrassment.
January 31st, 2018 at 12:25 pm
Any relation to the orca riding dude?
I am a dweller in time but that ain’t me on the cover.
January 31st, 2018 at 12:36 pm
“The Time Dweller”???
I’m a Time Dweller. You’re a Time Dweller. Sharon from accounting is a Time Dweller.
This is like naming a book “The Air Breather.”
January 31st, 2018 at 2:25 pm
I find hard to roast Haberfield’s cover illustrations because he clearly knows exactly what he’s doing. That being said, this artwork reflects how I feel when I eat really good sushi.
January 31st, 2018 at 2:57 pm
Beam me up, Whitey.
January 31st, 2018 at 4:16 pm
Albino Timothy Leary is having a high old time there. Until the acid wears off and he’s under arrest at Sea World.
January 31st, 2018 at 6:07 pm
Hokusai’s ‘The Slug’.
I presume that’s not salt water, then.
January 31st, 2018 at 6:18 pm
I suppose he’s not so attached to that cape that he’ll take it with him when he disappears, leaving behind the weird red-nosed seal-thing and the Japanese art fish.
January 31st, 2018 at 9:13 pm
Is this a woodblock painting? Because I would block it from my memory if I could.
February 1st, 2018 at 12:16 am
@Tom Noir is correct: everyone and everything (except maybe tachyons and possibly Billy Pilgrim, Dr. Sam Beckett, and some Gallifreyans) is a Time Dweller.
Is he fading out because he ruined his parents’ marriage a la Marty McFly? They were supposed to meet at the seafood buffet, but when the naked androgynous person showed up atop it, they went elsewhere?
Or is @THX correct and he’s fading away in embarrassment? Possibly at being seen thus, and possibly from realizing he’s underneath and reaching for a giant sign reading “MOORCOCK” (whilst starkers).
One could make a case for the “tentacles” tag. Not sure what the deal is with his foot, either.
February 1st, 2018 at 6:18 am
Every creature on this cover looks aghast, maybe because they just discovered the fractal nature of sea waves.
@Bibliomancer 😉
February 2nd, 2018 at 7:40 am
Is the nude guy a reference to Elric of Melnibone? An older, more wizened Elric?
February 5th, 2018 at 6:23 pm
The last thing you experience if you choose the All-You-Can-Eat Buffet at the Japanese restaurant that serves blowfish.
April 29th, 2018 at 8:11 pm
Artist; “Hmm. This tentacle fish needs something more. Ah hah! I have it!
A vagina on its stomach!”
December 9th, 2022 at 8:54 pm
This sushi bar is even weirder than the one in that Harry Styles video.
Are the blue squiggles coming out of his/her/their head and continuing up to the right a representation of the transporter beam that’s getting him the hell out of here?
Despite some good detail work, feet are hard to draw. I bet they don’t even have a foot class at UAI.
Moorcock: great author, terrible covers.
December 9th, 2022 at 10:29 pm
Fractal waves. Show off.
December 10th, 2022 at 12:31 am
Borum [1] had no idea where he was being teleported to this time, but it had to be better than remaining at this beach party and being persistently hit on by SUCKWORM.
Is that seal(?) wearing a wig?
[1] Corum’s nudist second cousin once removed
December 10th, 2022 at 1:11 pm
Should I mention that I have the edition of this book with that cover leering at me from my bookshelf even as I type this?
I don’t know what it was that Moorcock did to upset the art editor at Mayflower/Grafton, but it must have been awful, whatever it was…
December 10th, 2022 at 3:33 pm
Revealed: what Godzilla looks like naked. The Japanese army finally realised that rubber melts when you spray nail-varnish remover on it.
For some reason, he’s poured Marmite over the Chrysler Building and is serving it up in a bed of sea-kale. And riding it like a bronco. This must be one of the 70s Kaijus.
December 10th, 2022 at 11:48 pm
@Tat: I know Marmite’s pretty dark, but that looks like such a glossy black, I think it’s something else. Maybe there’s been an oil spill on this planet. That is the Chrysler Building, though. Or at least an oil-covered member of the rare seal species Arctocephalus chrysleri.
December 11th, 2022 at 6:05 pm
Dr Manhattan begins to regret trying that tab of LSD.
December 11th, 2022 at 10:08 pm
@NomadUK: Seems to be also hallucinating he has hair again.
I showed this to the Mr. last night after we happened to see the Styles video again (MTV is our TV background noise between other things). He agreed with me that this is weirder.
December 12th, 2022 at 3:57 am
@NomadUK, @GSS ex-noob: Dr. Manhattan stoned out his mind also might explain the existence of wig-wearing Chrysler Seal and SUCKWORM.