Jan 08
Click for larger imageUmp’s Art Direction: We’re through with goofy covers: this time we want something simple and classic. So we want a blond guy who’s wearing no pants to jump through the air with a sword trying to stick it in a space gorilla. Yeah – a blue space gorilla that has a giant space gorilla head growing out of its back. And we want a gal in a stripper outfit in the background and she’s turned like she’s pretending to look way because she’s embarrassed, but if you look at her eyes peeking back because she’s really into it. Like I said: simple and classic.
Published 1979
(Average: 7.31 out of 10)
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January 8th, 2020 at 9:57 am
“Look out, Dad!”
January 8th, 2020 at 12:26 pm
Grendel commented about Beowulf’s new attire. By commented I mean laughed like Alastair Sim playing Scrooge.
January 8th, 2020 at 12:42 pm
Hipster Flash Gordon jumps ironically as the feline gorilla demonstrates the the dominant trait of both cats and apes (contempt). The anti-Scarlet Witch is totally grossed out.
‘Number 3 in the Lord Tedric Lord Tedric Series’?
January 8th, 2020 at 12:58 pm
Those lightsabers need fresh batteries
January 8th, 2020 at 2:27 pm
Coming live to you from the inside of Trump’s head.
January 8th, 2020 at 4:16 pm
@Francis Boyle “MAGAAAAAA!!!!!”
January 8th, 2020 at 4:17 pm
It all makes sense now. Some of the skipping rope is off the page. They’ve both got one end are singing a jump-rope rhyme together.
January 8th, 2020 at 4:37 pm
Thicc McStarchunk either has some serious calf issues, or his boots are way tighter than Space OSHA or the Interplanetary Amateur Melee Sports Regulatory Commission should be allowing.
January 8th, 2020 at 5:21 pm
Everyone knows the Great Space Circus’ performances have become utterly ridiculous. Even the animal rights activists have long since been unable to come up with protests against them that exceed their absurdity.
But gorilla swordfights? This is new.
January 8th, 2020 at 5:45 pm
Zapp Brannigan’s let himself go a bit, hasn’t he?
January 8th, 2020 at 8:58 pm
@MakkaPakka—I think this is the jump-rope rhyme they’re working on:
I like coffee
I like tea
I want the space babe to come with me
You take the cat head
You take the ape
I’ll take the stripper in the fluffy green cape
January 9th, 2020 at 1:30 am
Sirian Rules sword-fighting is somewhat complicated by only allowing strikes below the knee.
January 9th, 2020 at 1:52 am
Not to be confused with the blue knight of the aluminum sphere, or the beige knight of the rubber sphere.
GSS, @B. Chiclitz
January 9th, 2020 at 6:33 am
Lord Tedric, Double-Dutch Red and Yellow Knight of the Teal Room.
Guess that wouldn’t fit on the cover.
Is the damsel looking with interest, or is she trying to open the compartment door and is looking back with the side-eye to make sure she doesn’t get caught in Lord Wrestling Singlet’s backswing? It’s rare on one of these that the lady has on more fabric than the gent.
@Tag Wiz: this needs the “no-pants dance” tag.
@fred: Maybe that’s why he’s so thicc. There’s 2 of him. Or, hang on — maybe the ape is Lord T. and there’s definitely 2 of him.
@BC, @Daard: GSS!
January 9th, 2020 at 9:08 pm
What’s with the snarling face? Is the artist trying to tell us something?
“Snarrrll! Buy this book and I’ll bite your head off!”
July 7th, 2022 at 10:47 am
Boris Johnson’s next career?
(Too soon????)
July 8th, 2022 at 1:57 am
@JJYoyo: For Boris’ next career? Too late, I’d say. The world would be better off if he’d taken up double-dutch jump rope and/or fighting gorillas years ago.
May 16th, 2023 at 10:12 pm
I think that some authors put words on index cards and shuffle them until they get a title.
Black Knight of the Iron Sphere
Iron Knight of the Black Sphere
Black Sphere of the Iron Knight
Sphere of the Knight of Black Iron
The Chronicles of the Iron of the Sphere of the Black of the Knight: Book Three.
May 16th, 2023 at 10:39 pm
Number three in the Lord Tedric Series Lord Tedric.
The Sphere of the Iron Black Knight
Knight Sphere of the Black Iron
Did we mention it’s about Lord Tedric?
A few years later, he might be Lord Tetris. And who’s holding the other end(s) of the rope(s)? Not yon turquoise babe, for sure.
I hope this was a campy book, because between Lord T’s precious pants-free outfit, and the vamp costume on the Teal Stripper, it’s simply… is the jumping rhyme the MPFC “Military Drill” chant? With added gorilla noises?