At a crossroads in her nascent acting career, Audrey Hepburn decides to forego sci-fi forever and accepts the role of “Sabrina” (1954) opposite Humphrey Bogart.
“That flaming towel was the last straw,” she tells VARIETY when announcing her decision, “not to mention the eyeball needles.”
A haploid cell has only one set of chromosomes, and the only ones in the human body are the reproductive cells: all other cells are diploids and have two sets.
So is this all a metaphor for sperm vs ova? Or the other way around?
Does having only a haploid number of chromosomes mean you also only get half a head of hair?
I’m not sure whether that giant injection is going to do any good for a guy who’s half (again — the artist really went with the haploid theme) skeleton and might in fact be all stone.
@BC: hee!
@Bruce: I dunno if the author/artist thought that deeply. Maybe Mr. Sohl knew exactly as much about haploid chromosomes as in your first sentence, and ran with it for his “war” story. “Haploid” sounds all SF-y, so he could graft it onto his probably trite men vs. women plot. And the artist got all excited since that meant he could use a scantily clad babe and a phallic symbol.
Freud, Jung, and their successors could have a field day with this art.
February 13th, 2019 at 9:52 am
Women are from Vulcan, men are from the Zombie Planet.
February 13th, 2019 at 9:52 am
Heroines screw you up.
February 13th, 2019 at 10:16 am
How do you lead a war? Is that like being a bandleader? A cheerleader? Do you alternate between sides or do it by email?
Phew, I got through this comment without once mentioning phallic symbolism.
Oh, dammit.
February 13th, 2019 at 11:59 am
Once she notices her Blanket of Modesty is on fire this cover will improve immensely.
February 13th, 2019 at 12:19 pm
Before electricity, heating your bathroom floor was somewhat painful. But worth it.
February 13th, 2019 at 12:44 pm
THX 1139 – classic PIF reference right there!
Still, I think the cover needs more red. What do you think?
February 13th, 2019 at 1:20 pm
“Not One Word Cut”
Yeah give it to me uncut! Shoot it in my eyeballs!
February 13th, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Finally a sci-fi treatment of the legendary war between the Haploids and the McCoys.
February 13th, 2019 at 6:51 pm
Classic Battle of the Sexes.
Meet Mr and Mrs Haploid
He wants her to stop using his towel.
She wants him to stop shooting drugs in his eyeball.
February 13th, 2019 at 7:23 pm
At a crossroads in her nascent acting career, Audrey Hepburn decides to forego sci-fi forever and accepts the role of “Sabrina” (1954) opposite Humphrey Bogart.
“That flaming towel was the last straw,” she tells VARIETY when announcing her decision, “not to mention the eyeball needles.”
February 14th, 2019 at 2:10 am
A haploid cell has only one set of chromosomes, and the only ones in the human body are the reproductive cells: all other cells are diploids and have two sets.
So is this all a metaphor for sperm vs ova? Or the other way around?
February 15th, 2019 at 4:30 am
Does having only a haploid number of chromosomes mean you also only get half a head of hair?
I’m not sure whether that giant injection is going to do any good for a guy who’s half (again — the artist really went with the haploid theme) skeleton and might in fact be all stone.
@BC: hee!
@Bruce: I dunno if the author/artist thought that deeply. Maybe Mr. Sohl knew exactly as much about haploid chromosomes as in your first sentence, and ran with it for his “war” story. “Haploid” sounds all SF-y, so he could graft it onto his probably trite men vs. women plot. And the artist got all excited since that meant he could use a scantily clad babe and a phallic symbol.
Freud, Jung, and their successors could have a field day with this art.
February 18th, 2019 at 8:46 pm
I like my women the way I like pigs in a blanket: Hot, and … um … in a blanket.
March 10th, 2019 at 11:10 am
Never bet on the sperm in a war between the sperm and the ova.
March 11th, 2019 at 6:38 pm
I’ll swallow your soul!