May 23
Click for larger imageTor Mented Comments: First off, stop swinging the sword. The artist didn’t bother to put in a target for you to hit. Second, bad fake Frazetta is worse than no Frazetta at all.
Published 1968
(Average: 6.47 out of 10)
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May 23rd, 2018 at 9:47 am
Did you ever have an itch in the small of your back you just couldn’t scratch?
May 23rd, 2018 at 11:07 am
What Turner would have painted had he painted fantasy covers. And was drunk. And had for some inexplicable reason lost all his talent.
May 23rd, 2018 at 11:12 am
Someone check the ID of the “sorceress lady”. She looks like she’s still in middle school.
May 23rd, 2018 at 12:59 pm
It looks like he’s having trouble getting his sword back in it’s scabbard. Silly thing keeps moving around.
May 23rd, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Tor M mentions it in the caption, but I also thought we had a “Faux-zetta” tag.
May 23rd, 2018 at 1:29 pm
If she stood up she might reach the bottom of his sternum, so I am with Bibliomancer on having big doubts as to age.
May 23rd, 2018 at 2:16 pm
She could be a Gelfling.
May 23rd, 2018 at 2:35 pm
For a minute there, I thought the male’s ball of black hair on his forehead was a nose, and his eyes peeking over his arm teeth. I thought he was a Hanna Barbera character after steroids and too many Conan novels.
May 23rd, 2018 at 3:07 pm
@MT #8: Huckleberry Hound – as you’ve never seen him before!
May 23rd, 2018 at 3:41 pm
So many questions!
Is that the number “25” or two badly painted birds of prey?
What’s up with his armpit? It appears to detach itself from his body. Do we need a “weird axillae” tag?
What’s she pointing at?
May 23rd, 2018 at 5:08 pm
Bland, murky colours, the stereotypical “damsel clutches hero’s muscular leg” pose, and the further implication of an inappropriate age gap since the damsel looks disturbingly young.
Seriously. WHO okayed this!?
May 23rd, 2018 at 6:37 pm
@B.C.: Faux-zetta would be a great tag.
May 23rd, 2018 at 6:54 pm
@JuanPaul: and how did he draw it?
Bold Warrior> You shall die! (bends over and gropes air behind right knee while attempting to maintain eye contact)
His Sorceress Lady> (rolls eyes, looks upward)
May 23rd, 2018 at 11:11 pm
Yep, someone tried to recreate Frazetta from memory and failed. Sure, he had his uncle who spends all his time in the gym, but using his younger sister as the damsel model was quite the mistake. She just wanted to get back to her AM radio and her groovy diary with plastic flowers stuck on the cover, dreaming of how cute the Monkees are.
So much yellow (I maintain that needs to be a tag, along with faux-zetta).
The goblin tower wouldn’t do well in strong winds or earthquake country. With no sense of perspective, I’ve no idea how big it is.
May 26th, 2018 at 4:01 pm
I could make an elaborate Nabokov joke here, but I’m too busy throwing up in my mouth…
May 27th, 2018 at 4:29 pm
‘Take Your Daughter to Work Day’ backfired badly.
July 8th, 2018 at 12:25 am
Its a bloody good cover you sod eating fools.. The much praised artist Jeff Jones did that cover. He was one of Frank’s favorites.
July 8th, 2018 at 7:28 pm
Hot potato!
Hot potato!
Hot potato!
Don’t touch it . . . .