One of our fanboys sent a link to some “funny” science fiction book covers online. Funny as in this smells funny. A lot of these parody covers have a je n’est ce quoi familiarity about them. Check out a few:
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Click for larger imageIt seems “E-online” is muscling into on our territory of terrible sci-fi covers. Not only that, they are nicking our proprietary memes such “jazz hands” AND “BEHIND YOU”, not to mention our Dick Blade obsession. So we paid a visit to our solicitor and he said “go away until you give me my back pay”. Later he said “it’s probably just a coincidence, great ideas can be thought up independently, didn’t Newton and Leibniz both invent the calculus?”. “Yes” we said “but Newton later became Lord of Mint and spent his later years hanging counterfeiters! We demand justice”. He said “anyone can take a picture of the same book cover, come back when you have more proof”.
Then we looked some more and found this cover:
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Click for full imageAfter we accused Bibliomancer of passing off the same cover to Tag Wizard AND Joel McHale, he swore his innocence. So it is obvious that we have a strong case for INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT. After our solicitor finishes his rehab stint we intend to file a legal complaint. E-online will, no doubt, want to settle this in a hurry for a sizeable sum.
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February 19th, 2019 at 9:46 am
Well, Community used to be one of my favourite sitcoms. I say USED to be.
February 19th, 2019 at 10:53 am
Watch out GSS. They might bring back The Soup to start mocking you.
February 19th, 2019 at 11:54 am
Hands off our Dick.
February 19th, 2019 at 1:03 pm
I say we steal back the stolen cover photos, then change the titles back to the originals! That’ll learn ’em.
February 19th, 2019 at 3:47 pm
I will also add, the culprit’s Photoshop “skills” suck.
February 19th, 2019 at 6:58 pm
@JuanPaul—My first thought was, of course “This smacks of the hand of Bibliomancer,” but as you point out, these are well below his level of Chinese-quality production values.
So of course, there’s only one thing to say, or maybe two things, or maybe the same thing twice.
February 19th, 2019 at 9:18 pm
Intellectual Property Theft? My first thought is Chinese GSS has got to be in the middle of this!
February 19th, 2019 at 11:13 pm
@Raoul: Chinese GSS would never stoop to this. Also, they’re better at Photoshop.
July 28th, 2019 at 9:50 pm
Plus ‘Steroid Island’ is actually ‘Sos the Rope’
March 22nd, 2025 at 7:01 pm
This fooled me again until I got down to the Dick Blade title.