Nov 20
Bellatrix Comments: “Do you have to interrupt us now? Do your hoovering later.”
You might remember this from here
Published 1985
Bellatrix Comments: “Do you have to interrupt us now? Do your hoovering later.”
You might remember this from here
Published 1985
November 20th, 2019 at 12:03 pm
Did the blurb writer possess a hat with an arm holding a mallet on it? He seems the type.
November 20th, 2019 at 2:02 pm
Wil Wheaton had to take whatever gig came his way after he got cut from the Star Trek cast.
November 20th, 2019 at 2:16 pm
Mocking the same trial and tribulation Dick Blade suffers in every adventure isn’t silliness but sacrilege.
November 20th, 2019 at 2:43 pm
“Yes, I got tired of always needing to keep my legs crossed in these skirts, so I had this prosthetic leg added to my throne. It’s been quite handy.”
November 20th, 2019 at 4:30 pm
The queen runs a tough year-end performance review
November 20th, 2019 at 4:57 pm
Could I suggest that anyone who doesn’t know the book already should look it up on Goodreads? The description is absolutely priceless. With what I know now, the cover doesn’t seem entirely inappropriate.
November 20th, 2019 at 5:07 pm
The second woman looks like someone trying to do a “sexy sci-fi soldier” costume and going in a really odd direction.
November 20th, 2019 at 6:01 pm
You don’t need to watch Dynasty to have an attitude
Current reports suggest the audience room at Buckingham Palace resembles this.
November 20th, 2019 at 8:44 pm
Is that a pizza on the floor in front of the queen?
November 20th, 2019 at 10:49 pm
The mouseover text is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
This cover is perhaps less bad than the original? Maybe? And it doesn’t have the interior illustrations, as seen in the earlier post. I wouldn’t read this book in the privacy of my own home, much less on a bus. I’m guessing the embossing is shiny copper-colored and so doesn’t photograph well.
The word “Meanwhile” nowadays conjures up the thought of Stephen Colbert’s frequent and beloved segment. I wonder if he and his writers have seen this, the other cover, the illustrations, and the description of the book? He’s a big sci-fi nerd and former pubescent boy.
@JP: well-spotted.
@fred: This does look like 75% of Dick Blade’s adventures.
@drlemaster: Feet are hard to draw, as apparently are more than one leg.
@Anna T: She looks like she’s got a hairdryer helmet on.
@L_L: Thank you so much for the Goodreads mention. It was superb. Particularly liked the guy who said he found it in a squat. The Amazon link shows the hardcover edition (heh heh, hard), which is more surrealistic and less porny. Which I think is missing the point of the book.
@Ray P: The publication date suggests Dynasty, though. I hope QEII isn’t dressed this way!
@Rick: Plain cheese, thin crust that’s gluten free with broccoli and kale*. The crust explains why it’s on the floor. Maybe helmet girl’s going to hoover it up. Maybe dude is in cuffs for offering it.
*This is a real thing that exists. I personally stick with moderate crust, all the gluten, and pepperoni. Which is tonight’s dinner here at Chez GSSxn.
November 21st, 2019 at 1:46 am
@Rick Deckard (and I never thought I’d really be typing that in November 2019):
It can’t be – they’d get them from the Woking branch of Pizza Express.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:13 am
Meanwhile, someone is drawing much superior cover art.
November 21st, 2019 at 2:45 am
No “font problems” tag? If ever there was a cover that had “font problems” isn’t it this?
GSS ex-noob: “The mouseover text is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.”
Wait . . . GSS has mouseover text?!?!? :mind-blown:
November 21st, 2019 at 4:03 am
Speaking of possible inspirations for Colbert, does anyone remember a music video, 90s maybe, where the visuals included words on screen, in the format “meanwhile, such and such was happening”, including one bit which was along the lines of “meanwhile, X (one of the musicians) is now contemplating a SOLO project”)? This “meanwhile” business has brought it to mind, and it bugs me I can not remember either the title or the band.
November 21st, 2019 at 1:50 pm
The woman in purple isn’t a soldier. She’s from Advanced Throne Room Plumbing Inc. That’s her nuclear powered plunger.
November 22nd, 2019 at 7:53 am
@Bruce: Van Halen, I think. “Right Now” instead of “Meanwhile”.
@Line Noise: enjoy!
November 23rd, 2019 at 2:26 am
@GSS ex-noob: you are of course correct. Darn cheap brain!
November 23rd, 2019 at 11:30 pm
MEANWHILE… a copy editor awoke on Monday morning with a terrible hangover, remembered the blurb he had scribbled down last night at crunch time, and realized with a sinking feeling that he had to throw up.
MEANWHILE… an artwork editor beheld his work, an embossed logo smeared across the cover like a printed scream of despair — and despaired.
MEANWHILE… an artist walked to the bank with hurried steps, thinking: I hope this check won’t bounce.
November 24th, 2019 at 12:17 am
@Bruce: we had a couple months of MTV Classic for free, so my cheap brain was reminded of it recently. Else I’d have been fuzzy too.
The light/bright blue Quasar logo adds to the hideousness by not even bothering to blend in.