On the one hand, I’m glad I clicked to embiggen and confirm that the stubby-armed hobbit climbing the wall wasn’t grafted cheek to cheek with the furry octopede. On the other, I got that much more of an eyeball of scrawny mage thigh. So it’s a wash, is what I’m saying.
“Real men like rats! And toads! And bugs! Not icky girls!”
(Or is that real boys?)
The cover is seriously full of perspective fail: the aliens are supposed to be Godzilla sized, but that picture makes it hard to say if its much bigger than the two climbing dudes.
I feel the rest of us could have just not continued after @THX stole the show with #1. GSS!
Nevertheless, I find I have to give a GSS to everyone. Solid work, all, especially midweek.
I have a deficit of 3D perception, so this cover actually makes me ever so slightly nauseated, and not from the wormy thing or the beardy chap.
I feel the back parts of the letters should be slightly smaller to make the perspective work. The R and S in RATS shouldn’t be the same size. And the people shouldn’t look like random spare limb assemblages. Maybe they’ve all got some terrible mutation where they have tiny arms and legs, but that would seem to make their parkour impossible. Beardy’s lack of hips, too.
@anon’s work captures the hallucinogenic sense of this cover. I’m thinking the Naked Lunch critter is the Hat-ta-ta-hu hitman, and it’s stealing the humans’ stuff. They probably do yodel whilst they parkour. Maybe it took all their good weapons, too.
It’s not just the _size_ of the letters, it’s the way they’re positioned: the initial R in Rats looks like it’s _behind_ the monster’s head, so it seems to be smaller than the R, while the S looks to be in _front_ of the package right next to and above the climbing beardy, so it can’t be much larger than he is.
October 30th, 2019 at 10:43 am
It’s a cookbook!
October 30th, 2019 at 1:05 pm
@THX – Good Show Sir!
October 30th, 2019 at 1:06 pm
The self-help guide for police informers
October 30th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
I do, in fact, like rats. But I am now jealous of them since I don’t get one of those cool electric cars to drive around in.
October 30th, 2019 at 2:44 pm
I think any normal person could MacGyver a better weapon than that wee hatchet.
October 30th, 2019 at 2:55 pm
In shops just in time for Hallowe’en: Tickle Me Cthulhu.
October 30th, 2019 at 3:43 pm
On the one hand, I’m glad I clicked to embiggen and confirm that the stubby-armed hobbit climbing the wall wasn’t grafted cheek to cheek with the furry octopede. On the other, I got that much more of an eyeball of scrawny mage thigh. So it’s a wash, is what I’m saying.
October 30th, 2019 at 4:05 pm
Is the title trying to say that humans are vermin, or that everyone’s been shrunk down to the size of rats?
October 30th, 2019 at 4:09 pm
In order to survive, they had to become: Men like Pizza Rats!
October 30th, 2019 at 4:24 pm
Hmmm…I never played 3-D Tetris long enough to get to this level. Where’s my Nintendo Virtual Boy???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Tetris#/media/File:3D_Tetris.jpg
October 30th, 2019 at 5:09 pm
“We’re gonna need a bigger mousetrap.”
October 30th, 2019 at 5:34 pm
Anyone with a wardrobe and a desk might like to try to emulate beardy-man’s pose here. He seems to have invented non-Euclidean parcour.
That or the back-bone’s connected to the thigh-bone with no intermediary hip-bone to complicate matters.
October 30th, 2019 at 5:52 pm
“Real men like rats! And toads! And bugs! Not icky girls!”
(Or is that real boys?)
The cover is seriously full of perspective fail: the aliens are supposed to be Godzilla sized, but that picture makes it hard to say if its much bigger than the two climbing dudes.
October 30th, 2019 at 6:34 pm
“Holy Naked Lunch toothed-anus monstrosity Batman!”
Batman and Robin began rather threadbare.
It’s … (roll Monty Python’s Flying Circus theme music)
October 30th, 2019 at 7:32 pm
Hat-ta-ta-hu hitmen lived with the furry thing, stealing its money, beermats and yodeling albums.
Merk Stealin’
Bro L. Chinos / Sobr Nochil
October 30th, 2019 at 9:54 pm
Bizarre perspective on the human figures, but the “3-D” logo is kinda neat and it works.
October 31st, 2019 at 12:23 am
@Tat Wood kind of refreshing having that alternate skeletal structure be applied to a male figure now and then.
October 31st, 2019 at 2:16 am
I feel the rest of us could have just not continued after @THX stole the show with #1. GSS!
Nevertheless, I find I have to give a GSS to everyone. Solid work, all, especially midweek.
I have a deficit of 3D perception, so this cover actually makes me ever so slightly nauseated, and not from the wormy thing or the beardy chap.
I feel the back parts of the letters should be slightly smaller to make the perspective work. The R and S in RATS shouldn’t be the same size. And the people shouldn’t look like random spare limb assemblages. Maybe they’ve all got some terrible mutation where they have tiny arms and legs, but that would seem to make their parkour impossible. Beardy’s lack of hips, too.
@anon’s work captures the hallucinogenic sense of this cover. I’m thinking the Naked Lunch critter is the Hat-ta-ta-hu hitman, and it’s stealing the humans’ stuff. They probably do yodel whilst they parkour. Maybe it took all their good weapons, too.
October 31st, 2019 at 3:48 am
It’s not just the _size_ of the letters, it’s the way they’re positioned: the initial R in Rats looks like it’s _behind_ the monster’s head, so it seems to be smaller than the R, while the S looks to be in _front_ of the package right next to and above the climbing beardy, so it can’t be much larger than he is.
November 13th, 2019 at 3:33 pm
I’m a man, and I hate rats!
Just wanted to set the record straight.