Aug 22
Click for larger imageRick Deckard Comments: The Cheshire Cat is trying to hurry up and disappear from this godawful cover.
Published 1954
(Average: 7.47 out of 10)
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Rick Deckard Comments: The Cheshire Cat is trying to hurry up and disappear from this godawful cover.
Published 1954
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August 22nd, 2019 at 9:39 am
Book… or Yma Sumac LP cover?
August 22nd, 2019 at 11:18 am
I share the cat’s bewilderment.
August 22nd, 2019 at 12:12 pm
I thought ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ was published much later than 1954.
August 22nd, 2019 at 3:07 pm
Well this cover is sure a hot mess. There’d better be a story about a pair of scissors in this book.
August 22nd, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Robert Helpmann as Treebeard.
August 22nd, 2019 at 6:24 pm
I might start lobbying for an “interpretative dance” tag.
August 22nd, 2019 at 7:00 pm
I know pedantry is so passé on the internet (?) but that’s not a spider if it has twelve legs. It’s also not a spider if it has a cat head and a frog head, but that’s by the by.
August 22nd, 2019 at 7:41 pm
@THX – Whoa! Looks like GSS now has a resident arachnologist.
August 22nd, 2019 at 9:13 pm
It’s the new meme: “WTFcats”.
August 22nd, 2019 at 10:44 pm
@THX 1139: could be this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal_(demon) , although he seems to have left his human head at home. Perhaps Satan in the back is looking for him?
The baby clearly has gotten himself all tangled up in the Line to Tomorrow, and the scissors [1] are there to cut him loose. The Nymph seems horrified to see Satan (perhaps her ex?) and the little tree dudes from Princess Mononoke are presumably hanging out with her. And as @Richard Decker said, the floating cat head looks like it doesn’t want to be there.
[1] Possibly wielded telekinetically by the little alien in back of Baal.
August 22nd, 2019 at 11:52 pm
@Bruce: I knew someone would make sense of this. Are you a scientist, or do you play one on television?
August 23rd, 2019 at 1:23 am
@daard23—either that or an “interpretive cat” tag.
August 23rd, 2019 at 2:13 am
Is the cat’s name Mr. Hooks? That would be cute.
August 23rd, 2019 at 5:30 am
@THX 1139: just a man with a vast store of trivial knowledge.
August 23rd, 2019 at 7:50 am
That cat absolutely has the “What has been seen cannot be unseen” look on its face, as well it should.
The little Mononoke dudes really miss their own forest. Even with wolf gods, shapeshifting toxic things, and guns, it’s friendlier than this cover.
@JP: It would be an excellent name for a cat.
July 21st, 2022 at 11:18 pm
Okay, everyone, couldja please make one orderly line to tomorrow, no butting in front of anyone else, no matter how cute you are… good grief, look at the mess you are tracking! When we get to tomorrow, please wipe your feet on the mat before entering.