An artistic critique of the ‘Alien’ film franchise based on Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. This is what happens when you gift shop at the last possible moment.
Earth sent a statue for the colony’s birthday, but it it was made of really crappy clay and a bunch of nudists were injured when it inevitably fell apart.
@A.R. Yngve: and is that the Moon hiding in the “O?” A craftsman, perhaps, but one apparently subscribing to a rather dubious model of the solar system.
Wow, this is another “cover has nowt to do with content” stunner.
Although I suppose that might be Earth at top, though we’re not the size and locale of Saturn.
Or “Eart” as it appears to read thanks to the lettering and planet being almost the same color. Maybe Saturn is doing the interplanetary high jump? I don’t know what celestial body is hiding in the O, making it appear to be an eyeball. It might BE the clay statue’s eyeball rolling around loose.
We’re all assuming that the picture shows a statue crumbling. What if it’s self-assembling from rubble and forming, through sheer will-power, a votive bust of Brian Cant?
November 4th, 2019 at 9:24 am
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image of Dave Bautista.
November 4th, 2019 at 11:17 am
Where’s Gromit when Wallace is falling apart?
November 4th, 2019 at 11:24 am
@THX1139: …or John Merrick.
November 4th, 2019 at 12:48 pm
An artistic critique of the ‘Alien’ film franchise based on Shelley’s ‘Ozymandias’. This is what happens when you gift shop at the last possible moment.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:16 pm
Richard Hoagland has identified another face in space rocks.
But this NASA photograph is clearly a fake.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:47 pm
There’s a tiny “Saturn”, with a very narrow ring, halfway hidden in the “H” in “Earth.”
Such subtle craftmanship… such refinement!
November 4th, 2019 at 3:16 pm
Earth sent a statue for the colony’s birthday, but it it was made of really crappy clay and a bunch of nudists were injured when it inevitably fell apart.
@A.R. Yngve: and is that the Moon hiding in the “O?” A craftsman, perhaps, but one apparently subscribing to a rather dubious model of the solar system.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:53 pm
This week on Cake Wars, can the Naked Chefs salvage thier crumpling marzipan Ben Kingsley cake or are they doomed to an almond paste grave?
November 4th, 2019 at 4:14 pm
That reminds me. I have to pick up some more Head & Shoulders® shampoo.
November 4th, 2019 at 6:49 pm
“If you ask me, this whole Sisyphus thing is a bunch of hokum.”
November 4th, 2019 at 8:02 pm
Lamest Guy Fawkes effigy ever.
November 5th, 2019 at 12:36 am
Wow, this is another “cover has nowt to do with content” stunner.
Although I suppose that might be Earth at top, though we’re not the size and locale of Saturn.
Or “Eart” as it appears to read thanks to the lettering and planet being almost the same color. Maybe Saturn is doing the interplanetary high jump? I don’t know what celestial body is hiding in the O, making it appear to be an eyeball. It might BE the clay statue’s eyeball rolling around loose.
GSS to the submitter and all today’s commenters.
November 5th, 2019 at 1:58 am
Maybe the artist was getting his psychics confused and thought he was doing a cover for the Demolished Man?
(Also, I wish to object to the logo of Sphere Science Fiction. That is clearly a globe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globe , not a sphere).
November 5th, 2019 at 3:55 am
We’re all assuming that the picture shows a statue crumbling. What if it’s self-assembling from rubble and forming, through sheer will-power, a votive bust of Brian Cant?
November 5th, 2019 at 4:35 am
@Bruce: Clicking on their tag, I wish to object to Sphere Books art and graphics department as a whole.