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Click for larger imageTom Noir Art Direction: “Make sure to include a guy with evil facial hair and a bad haircut. Also, we need a guy sneezing because he’s allergic to space ships.”
Published 1981
(Average: 8.07 out of 10)
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Tom Noir Art Direction: “Make sure to include a guy with evil facial hair and a bad haircut. Also, we need a guy sneezing because he’s allergic to space ships.”
Published 1981
(Average: 8.07 out of 10)Loading...
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September 9th, 2019 at 10:13 am
In a stunning plot twist, the guy with the Villain Haircut is the innocent hero, while Sneezing Astronaut is a genocidal maniac. Who knew?
September 9th, 2019 at 10:25 am
Blackadder In Space?
The Sneezing Astronaut looks to me like a poorly designed toy with a huge head emerging from a tiny spaceship.
September 9th, 2019 at 10:39 am
Joe Spinell hankers after that Starcrash sequel.
September 9th, 2019 at 2:01 pm
If this cover in any remote way resembled Star Wars I would say someone’s unshielded exhaust port has been targeted.
September 9th, 2019 at 2:10 pm
Jeff Goldblum? Looks like Charles Bronson to me so I’m assuming this is the novelisation of some Stars Wars/Death Wish mashup with Bronson as Obi-Wan “The Executioner” Kenobi intoning such lines as “Use the revolver Luke”.
September 9th, 2019 at 2:16 pm
@Francis – with that facial hair, Mirror Universe Charles Bronson, obviously.
September 9th, 2019 at 3:54 pm
@Lillie, nicely played. And now I’m seeing Spock in there as well. This mashup is getting complicated.
September 9th, 2019 at 3:59 pm
TFW that drug store hair dye turned out much darker than the color on the box
September 9th, 2019 at 4:36 pm
Evil Bronson really wants to be a space troubadour.
September 9th, 2019 at 4:48 pm
That moustache is so terrible that I can only conclude it’s some form of facial fungus. eeeh.
September 9th, 2019 at 7:08 pm
@Anna – it takes a very brave haunted (probable) antagonist indeed to rock a mustache and goatee that accentuate a saggy butt-shaped chin rather than concealing it.
September 9th, 2019 at 7:27 pm
Facial features notwithstanding, I’m more intrigued by what appears to be the winning entry in this year’s Spaceship Soapbox Derby!
September 9th, 2019 at 9:51 pm
Looks to me like the TOS mirror universe has a mirror universe of it’s own where people not only sport mustaches but also bad haircuts…
September 9th, 2019 at 11:04 pm
I’m seeing a cut-rate Vincent Price. (Vincent Discount Price?)
September 10th, 2019 at 12:28 am
@IG -That’s who it is. Vincent Price. With a Chrysse Hynde haircut.
September 10th, 2019 at 12:40 am
Viscount Dincent Price of Outer Space.
September 10th, 2019 at 2:19 am
Leonard Nimoy in one of his ‘impenetrable’ disguises in ‘Mission: Impossible’, wearing a motorcycle helmet with stick on decals that only look remotely cool if seen from this one angle.
September 10th, 2019 at 4:58 am
I saw Mirror Spock first. Even minus the facial hair, his bone structure looks like Nimoy’s (except the Bronson-esque chin).
Which, seeing the date, is possible. It’s just like @Tat Wood said — one of the “master of disguise”s spirit gum and doll hair getups.
The eyes are very Vincent Price and a LOL to @Lillie Awesome (16), very subtle. I read it the other way around at first and was whaaaa?
About the haircut, what need be said but “Chigurh”?
As for the other guy, maybe he’s the never-before-seen Bush brother? The one W. and Jeb never mention?
Goodreads mentions a different book for this duo, and not this one.
Hey, Tweet Jane just called us “crack”. Not “on crack”, even.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:06 pm
@Lillie Awesome (6): So presumably Mirror Universe Charles Bronson would be pacifist, vegetarian… etc.
@Leak (13): Wasn’t that our own universe in the seventies?
I’m imagining Tony Tallarico reciting this book live, while DJ Arneson provides the scratch mixing.
September 11th, 2019 at 9:48 pm
You know how we “normal” people get light bulbs appearing over our heads when we have an idea? Well, this guy gets rocket ships and singing astronauts.