Dec 03
Ryan Comments: Human feet are hard to draw, but Clydesdale hooves are pretty easy. Throw in a dinosaur and no one will notice.
Published 1965
Ryan Comments: Human feet are hard to draw, but Clydesdale hooves are pretty easy. Throw in a dinosaur and no one will notice.
Published 1965
December 3rd, 2019 at 9:29 am
Well, we all have a pair like that. Unless this is about futuristic bakers?
December 3rd, 2019 at 11:09 am
It is a known fact dinosaurs have no sense of humor, so if one asks you for directions, do not pull the old ‘You can’t get there from here.’ gag or you will be eaten. Slowly.
December 3rd, 2019 at 1:16 pm
“Say, Karen, where do you want me to put this lifesize model dinosaur?”
“Oh, just pop it over by the mushroom standard lamps.”
December 3rd, 2019 at 3:33 pm
So either physically lazy mind-controllers or magic shoes. Personally, I think the latter is funnier, but those are some really ugly boots.
December 3rd, 2019 at 3:48 pm
It’s a sequel to William Gibson’s ‘Hippy Hat Brain Parasite’ where Uggs digest the grey matter of anyone who wears them. It’s not much of a threat because anyone who voluntarily buys Uggs has less than a snack for the monsters to feast upon in the first place.
December 3rd, 2019 at 3:50 pm
I can only assume the typesetter dropped their letter tray and had to hastily reassemble a title off the floor. The correct title of this book must be:
Fearful Foe Ogres
or maybe:
Leaf Foregoes Fur
or possibly:
A Foul Reefer’s Fog
or, if not those, then:
Fool Sufferer Age.
I suspect it’s probably that last one.
December 3rd, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Dinosaur: “Hey, watch where you put that title. You almost hit me.”
December 3rd, 2019 at 4:08 pm
Dinosaur: “What’s all this then?”
December 3rd, 2019 at 6:03 pm
The font used on “The” is really slummin’ it on this cover. Times must be tough.
December 3rd, 2019 at 6:44 pm
The back cover clears it all up. Turns out the lazy loafers on planet Refuge could be the Earth’s breadbasket, but they won’t get busy and make those loafs.
December 4th, 2019 at 12:14 am
Yet another cover that fails miserably to solve the mystery of dino-genitals. (Though knowing that theropods respond well to
tummy rubs will come in handy if I’m ever accidentally transported back to the Late Cretaceous.)
December 4th, 2019 at 12:21 am
@Bibliomancer: so the author and blurber didn’t know the word ‘baker’? This sounds suspiciously familiar https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/25/drunken-bakers-viz-comic/
December 4th, 2019 at 1:02 am
“The loafers could control anything – even humans!”
I don’t want to hurt the feelings of any homo sapiens present, but humans are a lot easier to control than most animals. They understand spoken instructions and the significance of the guns being pointed at them.
December 4th, 2019 at 3:02 am
@Bibliomancer – So it’s about those lazy guys, wearing comfortable shoes no doubt, who should be baking bread?
December 4th, 2019 at 5:41 am
“Ok, distract him with your callipygian bum, Karen, while I sidle over and press that pedal coming out of the back of his foot—I think that’s the on/off switch.”
December 4th, 2019 at 5:42 am
@Tor M—GSS! 😉
December 4th, 2019 at 6:11 am
Giant mushrooms… a nude, booted interpretative dance couple… a dinosaur…
It’s times like this we could use our old pal DSWBT to critique the dino.
Dino seems to be recoiling in fear, disgust, or confusion at the nonsense title. Or going “wha?” at the font for “The” as @JP noted.
@B’mancer: and yet the chatty back cover doesn’t mention the dinosaur.
@Tor, Lillie, Bruce: GSS.
December 4th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
“Loafers of refuge” sounds like a magic item worn by a Chevy Chase based trickster/illusionist in one of those unfunny nineteen eighties AD&D parodies.
September 14th, 2023 at 2:44 am
The giant mushrooms look like nice shade for the two slackers. I think it’s actually the Refuge of Loafers.
Also, discount Godzilla seems to be trying to use sign language and getting a little frustrated with only three reptilian fingers on each hand. The slackers aren’t helping by giving him competing directions to the nearest skyscraper.