Nov 13
Click for larger imageArthur Dent Comments: There’d better be a flying nun in this novel or I’m taking it back for a refund.
Published 1973
(Average: 7.50 out of 10)
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Arthur Dent Comments: There’d better be a flying nun in this novel or I’m taking it back for a refund.
Published 1973
(Average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading...
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November 13th, 2019 at 10:15 am
There’d better be an explanation of how the Flying Nun acquired an afterburner. Perhaps someone made an excessively large donation of beans to the convent.
November 13th, 2019 at 10:53 am
Sally Field reveals her true nightmare scenario – wrapping Sellotape around your face.
November 13th, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Is this a long lost de Chirico?
November 13th, 2019 at 1:47 pm
“You want a what? A smoking hot nun? You got it!”
November 13th, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Trump watches Shin Godzilla, changes all of America’s nuclear bomb delivery systems to trains. Despite….you know…oceans.
November 13th, 2019 at 3:03 pm
If only Stanley Kubrick had worked with Monty Python and brought this combination of The Sound of Music, Clockwork Orange, Creature from the Black Lagoon and Death Race 2000 to the screen.
Has the nun just been passed by the driver featured on the cover of On Wheels?
November 13th, 2019 at 3:27 pm
Still, this IS notably higher quality than 95% of the “Panther Science Fiction” covers we’ve studied so far…
…which is faint praise indeed.
November 13th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
The nun seems to be screaming, “stop it’s a sin!! ” while simultaneously getting destroyed in the most epic WWE match ever.
November 13th, 2019 at 4:52 pm
While everybody is being distracted the monster’s two claws are just breaking through the ground.
November 13th, 2019 at 4:55 pm
I suppose the alien thinks everyone else on this cover ought to be committed, if nothing else.
November 13th, 2019 at 5:52 pm
As far as I can tell, there’s not a man in sight on this cover. I guess they’ve all been committed to the asylum in the background. You know, the one that’s just been nuked—by a woman no doubt.
November 13th, 2019 at 6:44 pm
This isn’t Gender Genocide by Edmund Cooper. It’s rock n roll by the writer of Viriconium.
November 13th, 2019 at 6:59 pm
Yes, you DID leave the gas on.
November 13th, 2019 at 7:21 pm
Correction: The Frying Nun.
November 13th, 2019 at 7:51 pm
I think it’s more of flambe nun.
November 13th, 2019 at 8:17 pm
Q: why did the nun cross the road?
A: to castigate the woman- fishman couple on the other side.
That’s either a really small atomic explosion or a really huge building. Perhaps it’s supposed to be a line of sight thing and the atomic explosion is a lot further away. Or maybe it’s just a regular atomic geyser.
November 14th, 2019 at 6:04 am
Just noticed those speed racers hurtling toward the atomic explosion building. I guess it beats having to deal with the insufferable Sister Bertrille.
November 14th, 2019 at 8:23 am
Looks more like a Mother Superior than the Flying Nun. Obviously “Superior” refers to her propulsion.
Panther Books — the gift that keeps on giving (to GSS). Were the people responsible for the covers ever committed? Shouldn’t they have been?
@Ray P: I think the artist watched all those movies one day and then took drugs/ate spicy food and dreamed this.
As to movies that post-date this, the woman with fish-baby is obviously a missing post-credits scene from “The Shape of Water”. Which the nun disapproves of, and also of the guy from “Wheels”.
@Bruce: it might be just a very big fuel/air kind of explosion instead of a nuke.
July 31st, 2023 at 12:20 pm
@Bruce, @GSSxN: To me it looks like Kim Jong Un accidentally detonated a nuke under his Hotel of Doom
https://www.uxmas.com/2017/the-hotel-of-doom/