@Anna T.: The club may be a Nestene shaped like a club, needing another, anthropomorphic, Nestene to move it from A to B. I doubt that the wheelie-bin that ate Mickey trundled into place by itself – that would have looked suspicious to the UFO-spotter who lived at that address.And the Killer Daffodils needed humanoid Autons to hand them out to the public.
@Tat Wood: I see. Do you think that non-humanoid Autons are always so dependent on humanoid ones to move about? It sounds like a serious weakness for them, especially since not all humanoid ones are that convincing-looking.
@Anna T: Their invasion plans all hinge on getting someone with a plastics factory to make Autons to collect the glowing spheres in which they’ve secreted their disembodied consciousness(es). If this doesn’t happen there are just lumps of shattered plastic lying in mud.
This means a stage where they need to hope someone with a plastics factory is walking past where one of the spheres landed, ready to be hypnotised, and a very indulgent bank* willing to invest in an unexplained expansion-project with no hint of a return on the investment.
Plan B was better: find a renegade Time Lord willing to aid them but inclined to waste time on joke-shop pranks and faffing about at a circus for no good reason.
(*See also ‘The Faceless Ones’, “The Idiots’ Lantern’, every second ‘Sarah Jane Adventures’ story and ‘The Bells of St John’.)
@GSS ex-noob I get where you’re going with this. I’ve been playing a bit fast and loose with grammar and spelling lately, but I think I’ve yet to cross the line completely and anyway I thought the scene played quite nicely this way.
I appreciate each and everyone of your acknowledgments. Otherwise this feels way too much like spamming, because the anagrams don’t make much sense as comments.
BTW, my Enemy Mine comment is probably stuck in moderation. Can’t remember it exactly, but I think it came out pretty okay. You might enjoy it, though I do recognize there is always the other option.
May 21st, 2019 at 9:48 am
White people problems.
May 21st, 2019 at 12:04 pm
Lethe Press, huh? Deservedly forgotten.
May 21st, 2019 at 12:26 pm
After the apocalypse, we all devolve into Florida Man?
May 21st, 2019 at 12:54 pm
Nail clippers didn’t survive.
May 21st, 2019 at 1:04 pm
Fill the blank-space yourself.
May 21st, 2019 at 2:44 pm
UAI Instructor: Well, class, today’s exercise is to create a cover for a novel titled The Survivors. Ms. Smith, what are you planning?
Niki Smith: I just don’t know. I’m drawing a blank.
May 21st, 2019 at 2:46 pm
Art direction: “When I said just mail the cover in, I meant you didn’t have to hand deliver it.”
May 21st, 2019 at 3:34 pm
Maybe the artist used up all of her energy drawing the hands and feet and had nothing left for the torso, etc.?
May 21st, 2019 at 3:40 pm
I see this and hear the theme to ‘Land of the Giants’.
May 21st, 2019 at 3:43 pm
@Ryan—And what we see as a result is that even blank hands and feet are hard to draw.
May 21st, 2019 at 5:37 pm
I didn’t think Autons needed to use clubs, so, on reflection, he’s probably just trying to impersonate one. For whatever reason.
May 21st, 2019 at 6:20 pm
@Anna T.: The club may be a Nestene shaped like a club, needing another, anthropomorphic, Nestene to move it from A to B. I doubt that the wheelie-bin that ate Mickey trundled into place by itself – that would have looked suspicious to the UFO-spotter who lived at that address.And the Killer Daffodils needed humanoid Autons to hand them out to the public.
May 21st, 2019 at 9:02 pm
In the GrimDark future, there are only blue jeans.
May 21st, 2019 at 10:19 pm
Jeans no t-shirt.
I can’t believe any artist is credited. Get some clipart, throw on some brush-like effects, I daresay 90% of us could do that.
GSS to:
L_L, JP, BC (6) and (10)
And extra-bonus GSS to AnnaT and Tat for the delightful trip down memory lane. Just missing out the inflatable chairs that eat people.
May 21st, 2019 at 10:23 pm
Think this cover needs more detail? Join the club.
May 22nd, 2019 at 1:35 am
If that _is_ Future Florida Man, he’s probably bleeding because he tried carrying the spiked club under his arm.
May 22nd, 2019 at 1:51 am
@Tat Wood: I see. Do you think that non-humanoid Autons are always so dependent on humanoid ones to move about? It sounds like a serious weakness for them, especially since not all humanoid ones are that convincing-looking.
May 22nd, 2019 at 3:09 am
@Anna T: Their invasion plans all hinge on getting someone with a plastics factory to make Autons to collect the glowing spheres in which they’ve secreted their disembodied consciousness(es). If this doesn’t happen there are just lumps of shattered plastic lying in mud.
This means a stage where they need to hope someone with a plastics factory is walking past where one of the spheres landed, ready to be hypnotised, and a very indulgent bank* willing to invest in an unexplained expansion-project with no hint of a return on the investment.
Plan B was better: find a renegade Time Lord willing to aid them but inclined to waste time on joke-shop pranks and faffing about at a circus for no good reason.
(*See also ‘The Faceless Ones’, “The Idiots’ Lantern’, every second ‘Sarah Jane Adventures’ story and ‘The Bells of St John’.)
May 22nd, 2019 at 4:56 am
@Ikari G— 😉
May 22nd, 2019 at 5:16 am
Niki Smith is proud enough to sign it. Who am I to judge?
May 22nd, 2019 at 10:39 am
Walter Matthau finally snapped after too much of Robin Williams goofing around.
May 27th, 2019 at 7:27 pm
U SHIVS TREVOR?
Sees Dana
May 28th, 2019 at 7:21 am
@anon: Also “Us Shiv Trevor, Dana Sees”.
May 28th, 2019 at 8:12 pm
@GSS ex-noob I get where you’re going with this. I’ve been playing a bit fast and loose with grammar and spelling lately, but I think I’ve yet to cross the line completely and anyway I thought the scene played quite nicely this way.
I appreciate each and everyone of your acknowledgments. Otherwise this feels way too much like spamming, because the anagrams don’t make much sense as comments.
BTW, my Enemy Mine comment is probably stuck in moderation. Can’t remember it exactly, but I think it came out pretty okay. You might enjoy it, though I do recognize there is always the other option.
May 30th, 2019 at 3:28 am
In any case, Trevor gets shived, and Dana’s in the vicinity.
September 14th, 2019 at 8:25 pm
THE BREXIT SURVIVORS
(Too soon?)
September 15th, 2019 at 1:06 am
@ARY: Yes!