Feb 14
Good Show Sir Comments: “Nyah-Nyah-Nyah, I can’t hear you!”
Thanks Suzie-Q for sending this in!
Published 1971
Good Show Sir Comments: “Nyah-Nyah-Nyah, I can’t hear you!”
Thanks Suzie-Q for sending this in!
Published 1971
February 14th, 2019 at 9:53 am
“I’ve had it up to here with your heavy metal concept albums!”
February 14th, 2019 at 11:56 am
I empathise with her pain. Still, at least she’s not being menaced with some poorly disguised phallic symbol.
February 14th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
Harryhausen should have stop motioned a skeleton making a pizza from scratch in ‘Jason and the Argonauts’.
February 14th, 2019 at 1:56 pm
I don’t like where they’re going with Portal 3.
February 14th, 2019 at 2:13 pm
Art Direction: “I want a lady with a migraine. And a dickless wonder doing a jazz-hands interpretive no-pants dance!”
February 14th, 2019 at 3:26 pm
If this cover were animated, how would it move? I picture the skeletal hands clapping, and each time they slam together on the poor man, his arms and legs go shooting out to the sides like a Warner Bros. cartoon.
February 14th, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Since there’s no point in his looking down, I guess he’s looking up to find that “sword” above.
February 14th, 2019 at 4:14 pm
@fredāGSS! Right after they sprout out of the ground, the skeletons could all don chef’s hats and start a big pizza production number!
February 15th, 2019 at 2:32 am
Hiring the extra-dimensional skeletons to get rid of the little green men had seemed like a good idea at first, but the screaming was _so_ annoying.
February 15th, 2019 at 2:37 am
“Put a naked guy on the cover. That’ll tell people this is hard-hitting, adult SF.”
“And not gay porn?”
“OK, point. Make him green.”
February 15th, 2019 at 4:37 am
That poor woman. The bright lights and loud interpretive dance music have given her a migraine. Yet the skeleton portal/ghost pizza continues to swallow up the dickless mime, and there is no Excedrin to be found. Or even the titular sword, with which she could cut off the hands, the mime, or her own head. Anything to make it stop.
@all: GSS. The usual excellence in comments.
@Tor: I snickered. Also his eyes would bug out in a cartoon fashion, maybe also his ears.
February 16th, 2019 at 6:22 am
Checked online for an actual description of the story, and it apparently involves some aliens putting up a lethal energy field around a small town. So that explains the glowing circle and the (metaphorical) claws of death, although color wise it strikes me as a bit too _jolly_ for a lethal energy field. Yellow and pink? Those are party colors.
The woman is having a hard time, I guess, because women are always in distress in SF covers of a certain vintage, even when they aren’t being carried away by aliens.
Still don’t know why the guy is green and naked.
February 16th, 2019 at 7:03 am
@Bruce: it’s a 1970s lethal energy field. Thus the psychedelic colors.
Being trapped with giant skeleton hands, naked green mimes missing important bits, and cheerful death-field colors would make anyone distressed.
February 16th, 2019 at 11:52 am
Moral: Don’t eat your Arctic Roll too quickly or you’ll get an ice cream headache.
February 16th, 2019 at 3:22 pm
The soundtrack for this cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_sRiJ3Wi-g
February 16th, 2019 at 11:54 pm
Halfway through is this ad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT4Q5bLg6Qw
or, given the era, maybe this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mxaeSvWZSg
(they never got up to the number this poor woman’s suffering through — exponential notation wasn’t popular in commercials)
@Tat: An advert that forces you to use the product. Evil genius. IIRC we got Carly Simon singing for the same stuff — much nicer.
March 10th, 2019 at 11:11 am
Well, the cover depicts our feelings about it pretty much spot-on.
(And suddenly things became very meta…)