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Click for larger imageJ Greely Comments: The sticker can’t be removed without tearing the cover, so we’ll never know how snug this Gray’s pants are. Probably for the best.
Published 1978
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J Greely Comments: The sticker can’t be removed without tearing the cover, so we’ll never know how snug this Gray’s pants are. Probably for the best.
Published 1978
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August 20th, 2019 at 10:26 am
It’s the only way the aliens can get the humans to watch their boring unboxing videos.
August 20th, 2019 at 1:13 pm
Scientists have already proven this.
August 20th, 2019 at 2:50 pm
Space rope = space hemp = this cover.
August 20th, 2019 at 2:54 pm
“All right, which one of you is the real McCoy?”
August 20th, 2019 at 5:51 pm
@ Bibliomancer—Thank you for the link to “THE WORLD’S ONLY RELIABLE NEWS.” It’s about time we had some good unvarnished truth. I was struck by the analytical depth of the breakdown of alien reports by percentages and all, but most intriguing was the final note that “The remaining 5 percent don’t fit into any categories.” This prompts two immediate questions, one philosophical, namely, wouldn’t “not fitting a category” itself then be a category? The other question is—what in the world could that 5% have seen?
August 20th, 2019 at 6:02 pm
I have to say, this is the first alien hostage situation I’ve seen where the aliens are using human-made weapons.
August 20th, 2019 at 7:41 pm
@B. Chiclitz: it depends on whether you agree with Bertrand Russell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_paradox or Jorge Luis Borges https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolent_Knowledge.
I’m more interested in whether the ‘aliens’ are Beavis and Butthead in masks.
August 20th, 2019 at 8:08 pm
@fred: there is something rather 1970s fake wood paneled station wagon about the interior of this spaceship.
Given that in space nobody can hear you scream, why the gags? Were the humans being annoyingly loud and insulting?
August 20th, 2019 at 8:34 pm
I like the matching, color-coordinated collars featured in both the human and alien uniforms. Perhaps having this one thing in common will become a bridge to eventual peace in the galaxy.
August 20th, 2019 at 8:55 pm
@BC – excellent analysis, as always. Obviously the 5% were so shaken by their experiences that they were unable to communicate what they had seen and were shut up in asylums.
Speaking of which, here is a useful self-analysis tool that I think is just right for you!
August 20th, 2019 at 11:47 pm
I recognized this immediately and popped over to the SFBC bookcase.
I am happy to report that the alien’s trousers are very loose.
@Tat: I’m going with Russell on this question, and echoing your suspicions about the aliens’ true identity.
@B’mancer: a friend of my brother’s used to work for the WWN. He was the family go-to man on all things Bat-boy. Later, he worked for a newspaper in Shanghai. He said the latter was much odder.
@Bruce: have you MET our species? Of course they were being rude.
@JP: GSS!
August 21st, 2019 at 12:27 am
Come on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT68a56s70
August 21st, 2019 at 6:37 am
@Bibliomancer—The only one of those things I haven’t experienced is the on-camera wardrobe malfunction.
@Tat W—I’m with Borges, all the way down. (BTW, GSS on the Beavis and Butthead.)
August 21st, 2019 at 7:26 am
@Tat Wood: the fact that the one with the gun has not already accidentally shot the controls, the windows,one of the hostages, or some combination of the foregoing is a rather strong argument against it being Beavis and Butthead, although I suppose the gun could be fake or unloaded.
August 21st, 2019 at 12:29 pm
“Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not an escape artist!”
-j
August 21st, 2019 at 10:27 pm
And we thought if you could build inter-galactic spaceships you could have made something more advance than rope to tie your captives.
August 22nd, 2019 at 2:36 am
What’s unsettling to me are the aliens’ toothy grins – or are they just metallic Geraldo Rivera mustaches?
August 22nd, 2019 at 3:23 am
@Ryan: That’s why the humans are gagged, lest they sing Slim Whitman tunes!
@Hammy: If you look at the one on the left, it’s clearly a metal mustache. They haven’t gotten the Capone’s vault video yet.
August 22nd, 2019 at 9:18 pm
The artwork illustrates the heist-in-space story “Ocean’s 11 Aliens”.
August 27th, 2019 at 6:50 pm
@BAM #14….I think it’s a caulking gun. The little guy there just made sure that the windows are all sealed properly. Twenty percent of all heat loss in a home is due to improperly sealed windows….I think.
August 28th, 2019 at 1:46 am
@A-S: Sure looks like a caulking gun. Maybe the alien also caulked the humans’ mouths shut before tying on the bandannas.