Jan 24
Click for larger imageRaoul Comments: The Moon is not a planet.
Published 1978
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(Average: 7.00 out of 10)
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Raoul Comments: The Moon is not a planet.
Published 1978
You might remember this from here.
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January 24th, 2019 at 8:47 am
At least there’s no Space Sheep needed? Yay?
This cover looks space opera, whereas the other was more fantasy.
The title looks kinda like BIF PLANET.
The man at the bottom (postie?) looks like he’s confused by the zap gun, which explains why the rocket is about to come back at him
January 24th, 2019 at 10:48 am
If ever there was an accident waiting to happen… just ask Bob Crane there.
January 24th, 2019 at 10:52 am
These boots are made for stalking
and that’s just what they’ll do
one of these days these boots are gonna stalk up behind you
January 24th, 2019 at 12:03 pm
If that’s a big planet I want a refund.
(No, don’t tell me you were trying to be ironic. No one can commit that typographical abomination of a title and still claim to be ironic.)
January 24th, 2019 at 1:50 pm
Looks like Captain Planet there is shooting a glue gun.
January 24th, 2019 at 2:40 pm
Correct me if I am wrong, but, if that is drawn to scale, the Moon is not a planet and not very big.
January 24th, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Agents Phil Coulson is about to say “So THAT’S what it does.”
January 24th, 2019 at 3:53 pm
Someone needs to have a long sitdown with the folks at Telemetry, or they’re going to go through an awful lot of rockets.
January 24th, 2019 at 4:33 pm
Vividly compelling? Vididly repelling, more like. *chortle*
January 24th, 2019 at 5:24 pm
🎶🎶🎶
On a Big Planet screams stay with you
Like a tiny moon all painted blue
Or a warrior’s thighs that hurt my eyes
Glue gun guy 🎵🎵🎵
January 24th, 2019 at 7:49 pm
@B.Chiclitz: As a former Corby resident, I salute you. GSS.
January 25th, 2019 at 1:40 am
This looks like the kind of tableau I’d make with the action-transfers that came free with special packs of Weetabix or Sugar Smacks, c.1971. Rather than use the ‘action background’ painting on the back of the packet (an alien jungle or city) I’d just put the Letraset pictures on a blank sheet of foolscap, sometimes accidentally putting one over another.
January 25th, 2019 at 3:10 am
@Tat: “Weetabix! Start your day off right on this big planet!”
It would explain the randomness.
I think I got ’em in boxes of Super Sugar Crisp, and did the same thing.
If any of those objects are to scale (like the domed city, much less the people), then it’s not a very big planet at all. Smaller than the moon, larger than The Little Prince’s world.
Yon beastie seems to be the unholy spawn of a brontosaurus and a camel — check the hooves.
January 25th, 2019 at 3:40 am
The craters and so on really do scream “airless moon” rather than “huge Earth-like planet.” Perhaps the artist just happened to have a picture of a moon handy and slapped SFnal stuff on it?
Maybe those other planets are supposed to be orbiting around it, emphasizing its BIGNESS? Or is it an early Buck Rogers/Looney Tunes space travel universe, where the sky in space is full of randomly drifting nearby planets?
@B. Chiclitz: bravo. (Insert GIF of guy with mustache clapping)
@GSS: the book is definitely in the Planetary Romance tradition, which is to say it’s more John Carter roaming Mars than Louis Wu exploring the Ringworld.
January 25th, 2019 at 7:08 am
@Tat@Bruce—RIP Stuart Adamson
January 26th, 2019 at 7:21 am
@Bruce: you mean the B&W Orson Welles clapping GIF?
I agree this would be more appropriate as a universe for Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century.
January 26th, 2019 at 11:12 am
When rocketships play “Chicken,” either both win… or both lose.
January 27th, 2019 at 12:50 am
@GSS ex-noob: that’s the one.
January 29th, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Jack Vance is clearly the dinosaur’s name.
January 30th, 2019 at 8:57 am
@A-S: GSS.
April 6th, 2022 at 1:09 am
Hmmmm… It’s like a church potluck, lots of exciting but unrelated offerings thrown together on one surface and we’ll eat it up.