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Click for larger imageTom Noir Comments: “We must be on our guard, Daphne. This is a dangerous world.”
“Very well Charles, but tell me – do you smell chicken?”
Published 1991
(Average: 6.69 out of 10)
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Tom Noir Comments: “We must be on our guard, Daphne. This is a dangerous world.”
“Very well Charles, but tell me – do you smell chicken?”
Published 1991
(Average: 6.69 out of 10)Loading...
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June 13th, 2018 at 9:32 am
Returning to a devastated sponge, would the generational ships aid the remnants of a mutated pudding – or seek their future with Golden Syrup?
THE LAST TREACLE
June 13th, 2018 at 9:45 am
The Biggles look never goes out of style. “Once you’ve flown a Sopwith Camel …”
June 13th, 2018 at 11:29 am
Is that a gun? Or is he ready to do some serious power washing.
June 13th, 2018 at 12:48 pm
“Here’s a knife for you, little lady. Try not to hurt yourself with it. And show a little leg once in while, dammit!.”
That is so 1950’s…wait, this was published in 1991??
June 13th, 2018 at 3:54 pm
It’s heartening to see that in the future we’ll be repurposing 747 fuselages for our generational ships; it’s just such a classic style. I’m concerned, however, about the planned lack of landing gear and forward windows for our shuttlecraft; that seems like a recipe for an awful lot of incidental damage costs per unit per use, in my opinion.
June 13th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
So now they have total recall?
June 13th, 2018 at 5:55 pm
They have long range and close combat covered but mid range seems lacking. Throwing rocks seems their only option.
June 13th, 2018 at 6:34 pm
Why are Generation Ships returning to a devastated Earth? Nobody aboard has ever seen Earth and the whole point is that it’s a one-way journey.
Did they misprogramme their satnav? Did someone suddenly think ‘Oh Christ, I’ve left the iron on’?
June 13th, 2018 at 10:04 pm
So who are the chickendevilgorillas? Mutants? Aliens not considered worth mentioning in the blurb?
Tat Wood@8: indeed. Weren’t they supposed to have _already_ seeked their destiny in the stars? If they’re coming back, it would seem to imply they found it and didn’t like it.
Ray P@2: “Sky Captain called. He wants his outfit back, and doesn’t want anything to do with this chickenshit World of Tomorrow.”
June 13th, 2018 at 10:43 pm
Jebus, that’s wordy. You can barely see babe, Biggles, and the blue chicken guy for all the giant title/series/author thingy, then the long blurb and the DAW logo with description and price.
Is he Charles and she’s Ingrid? I bet they are. That’s their names emblazoned above them. Charles Biggles is the Marked Man, I guess.
Who and why are the guys in space suits? And the airplane shuttles?
If it’s that dangerous, why’s Ingrid got her skirt slit up to there and Charles has that scarf that’ll get him strangled? And why does she only have a kitchen knife (pointed the wrong direction)?
@Tat and Bruce: Exactly! The blurb makes no damn sense. I guess they need to seek their destiny in a different direction. And reprogram the satnav.
June 14th, 2018 at 1:45 am
Maybe the last recall should have been on the satnav?
June 14th, 2018 at 2:51 am
A political treatise? 😉
June 14th, 2018 at 2:58 am
@Tor 6 Wow 🙂
June 14th, 2018 at 4:01 am
What’s that title? “”The Last Bacall”? Is this a movie star retrospective?
June 14th, 2018 at 9:47 am
That is the saddest space chicken I’ve ever seen.
June 14th, 2018 at 8:58 pm
@ARY: He is very blue.
(I’ll get me coat. Not Biggles’, though — the random rivets (?) are daft.)
The two halves of his face seem to be drawn from different perspectives. Either that or he’s one of the mutants.
December 2nd, 2020 at 3:40 pm
I was going to say that the designs of both the giant blue chicken-man, and the firearm held by the dude in the foreground, were definitely stolen from the cover of “Cobra” by Timothy Zahn from six years earlier, but, apparently both covers were done by the same artist?
Cobra:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4950
December 3rd, 2020 at 9:38 am
@gingaeru: I guess he really liked how that chicken man turned out?
July 17th, 2022 at 3:40 pm
I think the title is “The Last Recoil”
They’re all out of ammo. Even Boss Level Chicken, that’s why he looks so sad.
Brooke Shields with the knife FTW.
July 17th, 2022 at 11:09 pm
@JJYoyo: Not unless Brooke turns her knife around in a direction that allows stabbing someone else instead of herself.
747s are big, you’d think they could have fit more ammo in their landing shuttle.
If this is Earth, and there are still people of some sort on it, and Biggles and Brooke can breathe fine, who is the biped in the space suit? An alien bounty hunter who’s hunting Biggles (him being The Wanted Man)?.