Mar 04
Click for larger imageVerylatetotheparty Comments: More Moorcock. The next book in the series after “The Jewel In The Skull” and a similar GSS suitable standard of cover art. The cover of the third book is disappointingly not nearly as bad. Published in 1975, it might also qualify as an early example of Orange and Teal, (although it’s come out more pinkish in the photo).
Published 1972
(Average: 7.33 out of 10)
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March 4th, 2019 at 10:26 am
No, don’t mock, if Frank Lloyd Wright were alive today this is EXACTLY what he’d be designing.
March 4th, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Moorcock a la DAW still rules. Non-steroidal knight, lizard lion, hairy archer.
Mayflower is just……..meh.
http://eldritchwizardry.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-mad-gods-amulet-by-michael-moorcock_30.html
March 4th, 2019 at 2:21 pm
” Whose been wearing my amulet without my permission!?”
March 4th, 2019 at 5:05 pm
More like mad god’s mullet, amirite?
March 4th, 2019 at 5:06 pm
Did the artists just say “His name’s Moorcock, we might as well do whatever daft WTF thing we want?” Was this a precept of UAI and art directors?
The blue thing’s got one hell of an upper lip.
March 4th, 2019 at 6:21 pm
I think I see a sinus passage.
March 4th, 2019 at 10:27 pm
Maybe what’s cooking in the center is The Mad God’s Omelet.
March 4th, 2019 at 10:31 pm
GSS ex-noob:
I can’t see it as a big upper lip, only as a big screaming mouth doorway. It must be like the blue and black/white and gold dress thing. – Get well soon by the way.
March 4th, 2019 at 10:39 pm
Other people can see the butt-plug turrets though, yes? I don’t want to be the only one that sees the butt-plug turrets.
March 5th, 2019 at 2:50 am
@Verylatetotheparty: now I can’t _unsee_ it. Thanks a lot.
I think the issue is that the mouth has the same color scheme as the towers to either side, so it can look like a curved surface rather than an opening. I have a closed gate and must scream?
If that’s the Mad God on top, he looks like an aging rockstar. Perhaps Castle Buttplug used to be a music critic before the Mad God used his amulet on him.
March 5th, 2019 at 3:39 am
“Weird decolletage”.
March 5th, 2019 at 3:46 am
@B’Mancer, @verylate, @Bruce Munro—such is the spontaneous teamwork or social construction of knowledge to be found here: he is sporting a mullet, he is an aging rockstar, and the name of his band is, yes, “The Butt-Plug Turrets.”
March 5th, 2019 at 5:25 am
Gol-durned New Age SF writers with their sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll…
GSS, @B. Chiclitz, @Tor Mented. But I’d sooner eat Green Eggs and Ham than any Omelets that guy made.
March 5th, 2019 at 7:28 am
I was going to ask “What exactly IS the relationship between Unhappy Castle Butt-Plug, Glowy Ovule, and Mullet Dude?”, but I see @BC has solved it. GSS.
March 5th, 2019 at 12:37 pm
#10 Bruce A Munroe: I can’t help but feel a little bit responsible for that, since I’m completely responsible for that. You can try distracting yourself by looking for the joins where Bob Haberfield incorporated photographs into the picture.
#12 B. Chiclitz: Now I want to START a band called “The Butt Plug Turrets”.
#14 GSS ex-noob: Unsurprisingly none of it has much relationship to the contents of the book. Well… there IS a castle, but not a castle like that!
March 8th, 2019 at 1:40 pm
Here’s an idea for a late-night drinking game:
Have a Staring Contest with this cover.
The one who can stare back at the cover for the longest time without blinking – or laughing – wins a free beer.
March 8th, 2019 at 4:10 pm
@A.R.Yngve: Nice idea, I think Fred would definitely win. On the other hand looking back at comment #10, Bruce A Munro probably never wants to look at this cover again – still feel a bit guilty.
March 13th, 2019 at 2:48 pm
Kali Matta!
September 8th, 2019 at 10:29 am
Gumball pulls faces like that on the Cartoon Network.
August 9th, 2021 at 5:58 pm
Why the long face?
(And my sincere apologies for being so late with such an obvious Dad joke.)