Happy New Year 2020! Hard to believe but Good Show Sir is entering its third decade of curating a panoply of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers. And a third decade of passersby mistaking terrible covers for bad covers. And speaking of milestones, in this past year we celebrated our 10th Anniversary and 2,000th Cover! We threw such a big party bash I totally blacked out and can’t remember anything. I’m sure you all had a great time.
2019 saw the launch of the Good Show Sir Podcast (“Another fucking podcast” raves Podcast Aficionado magazine!)
And in 2019 GSS underwent a massive expansion, increasing our staff by 50% with the addition of the lovely and talented Social Media Strategist Tweet Jane! Our Twitter and Facebook presence has been spruced up and there you can find bonus pithy comments and troll abuse not seen on our blog page.
On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:
Click for larger imageOur silver medal winner is the Piers Anthony centaur and pony show:
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Click for wraparound horse’s ass
And the bronze-medal winning:
Click for larger imageMy personal favourite of 2019:
Click for larger imageTag Wizard’s fancied this mess. “No guts, no glory” he screamed:
Click for larger imageAnd Tweet Jane just friended this role model. “Making her my avatar” she vowed:
Click for larger imageNow back to recovering from the concussion I received from a fan angry about my Black Peter costume. He obviously misunderstood I was dressed ironically. Go figure.
— GSS Admin
(Average: 7.88 out of 10)
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January 6th, 2020 at 9:20 am
Man, irony is so 1990s… Anyway, a happy New Year to all, and I think the expression on the lady’s face on the winning cover says it all. Onwards!
January 6th, 2020 at 12:08 pm
I’ve always preferred gold and silvery myself.
Also, and upwards (or should that be downwards – I always get confused about these things around here.)
January 6th, 2020 at 2:12 pm
I suggest a GSS financed Thuvia movie for the coming year, but only if you can get Nicolas Cage for the title role.
January 6th, 2020 at 3:28 pm
Welcome back one and all to the Roarin’ 20s.
This was also the year E! News tried to steal our intellectual property and business model.
Never forget.
January 6th, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Good see some old fashioned side-boob win the year.
I scrolled through 2019 there are some spectacular covers. I think this one is my favorite: http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=15479
January 6th, 2020 at 11:31 pm
I would not be surprised if this year’s #1 continues in our permanent Top 10. It is truly horrific. Although, I question on a technicality: has anyone ever seen it in actual print? #3 is also quite bad.
Staff choices all solid, though I think Admin’s is the best/worst, and Jane’s is so apropos.
Here’s to another year of bad covers, good fellowship, and new episodes of Raket and Skibet.
January 7th, 2020 at 1:58 am
Hear, hear.
Although I must give props to Tag Wizard’s choice: most renderings of near-naked combatants swinging around large pieces of very sharp metal are inexplicably lacking in intestines.
January 7th, 2020 at 7:21 am
@GSSxn—Amen.
Reflecting (and apologizing for doing so), I think what matters most to me about this joint is that people actually write. That’s so corny, but true. Now, someone, B’Mancer perhaps, hit me with a sardonic and cynical riposte and dash this maybe-there’s-hope-for-humanity-yet feeling down into the muck where it belongs.
Happy 2020 all!
January 7th, 2020 at 9:30 am
Wishing you a good year with lots of good laughs.
P.S.: If you enjoy riffing bad sci-fi, check out rifftrax.com – the old “Mystery Science Theater 3000” guys are still at it!
🙂
January 8th, 2020 at 7:26 am
@BC: But even Tag’s pick doesn’t show intestines. Just lava.
January 2nd, 2022 at 8:45 pm
Hm. I’m sorry I missed this post when it came out.
I can’t help but think that Tarzan and the queen (?) he shares the “Jewels of Opar” cover with are both shocked at seeing that the other has a bigger “package” than they do……