Jan 29
Good Show Sir Comments: “Talk about mud-flaps, my girl’s got ’em” – David St. Hubbins
You might remember this from here.
Published 1980
Good Show Sir Comments: “Talk about mud-flaps, my girl’s got ’em” – David St. Hubbins
You might remember this from here.
Published 1980
January 29th, 2020 at 9:38 am
Don’t quite know what to make of this. Remploy was a major job-finder for disabled people in the UK—ran quite a few businesses and apparently had a publishing operation.
January 29th, 2020 at 10:05 am
“All right, take your bloody lawnmower back!”
January 29th, 2020 at 10:08 am
*Reads blurb* “Perhaps unfortunately” is the phrase that stands out here.
January 29th, 2020 at 12:45 pm
Lovely landscape art. Perhaps this is a Bob Ross?
January 29th, 2020 at 2:12 pm
Carry on campers? Blurb makes it out to be Love Island meets Predators with Arthur Dent type Englishman.
No six-legged rabbits on the cover because legs are hard.
January 29th, 2020 at 2:16 pm
Next time, they would host their Lakeside Dance Rave further away from Urusla Andress and her Aggressive Armed Response Anonymous group campfire.
January 29th, 2020 at 2:18 pm
Betty and Veronica having a little disagreement.
January 29th, 2020 at 3:24 pm
No wonder she’s so angry. The poor woman is a scoliosis sufferer.
January 29th, 2020 at 3:42 pm
This is the part of her Native-American background that Elizabeth Warren doesn’t talk about.
January 29th, 2020 at 3:46 pm
I’d recognize that back and side boob anywhere. It’s Thuvia!
January 29th, 2020 at 5:37 pm
War between the rival tribes of Essex.
January 29th, 2020 at 6:00 pm
Yes sir, this here is high class science fiction. No bug-eyed monsters here, no way. Only six-legged rabbits. Very sophisticated.
Also, do you think Richard Avery, the “unsuccessful artist,” did the cover?
January 29th, 2020 at 6:21 pm
@BC – Richard Avery is a graduate of the Unsuccessful Artist Institute. A different, and much larger, art school.
January 29th, 2020 at 8:12 pm
@Bibliomancer—I think that school failed its last accreditation review. Now it’s known as “The Unsuccessful Unsuccessful Artist Institute,” and has forged an exclusive agreement with Chinese GSS to provide all their covers.
January 29th, 2020 at 8:31 pm
She wants those mid-life crisis men to transit their Tribal Retreat somewhere else.
January 29th, 2020 at 8:55 pm
@B. Chiclitz – Let’s not forget the often forgotten Unknown Unsuccessful Artist Institute, whose graduates mostly end up painting those lines down the middle of the road.
January 30th, 2020 at 3:56 am
@B’Mancer—I think I recently saw one of those. I recognized it because the painter was trying to draw feet on the yellow lines, unsuccessfully.
January 30th, 2020 at 4:12 am
So is the blonde woman the physically superior adversary?
I feel a bit sorry about the chaps in white loincloths, who seem to be rather unprepared to deal with the blonde menace and her quick-draw crossbow: the one with the spears clearly has no notion of what to do with them, and the fellow with the rock has clearly picked one too large to throw across the river, perhaps misinformed on rock-tossing by bad SF art.
The woman in back is haplessly trying to beat out a fire with a black picnic blanket, I assume, something which will probably end in tears even if she isn’t hit by the second flaming arrow (which is burning as if the tree it came from was made of matchsticks), while the white haired (wigged? Stocking capped?) chap in red and brown seems to be beating his chest with his fists, perhaps in a ritual display of aggression.
January 30th, 2020 at 7:17 am
It’s the (flaming) crossbow bolt that keeps worrying me. A medieval crossbow being fired on an upwards angle like that would have a range of at least 180m (200 yards) up to about 320m (350 yards), so either that bolt is very top heavy (while still being aerodynamic) or it’s a perspective problem and she’s firing at giants. Either way having no spare bolts to reload with is going to be a bit of a worry when they regroup.
January 30th, 2020 at 7:53 am
So I see “side boob” is apparently a requirement for this cover, also appearing on the previous iteration.
At least they’re on a planet with air instead of floating in outer space this time. But there till aren’t any shadows.
What sort of get-up is that on the person up right, in red? Doesn’t match anyone else.
“perhaps unfortunately”? WTF, blurb writer.
Isn’t this “perspective problems”? I can’t quite get the damsel’s boobage, the distance across the stream, the size of the flaming arrow, and the teeny-tiny too small to stand up in teepee to all work in one picture. Ah, well, the quote from Mr. St. Hubbins explains it all — the Tap always had problems of scale.
@L_L: I guess having difficulty with proper 3-D vision is a disability?
@B’man: Bob wouldn’t have put in the people. Maybe someone took one of his happy little tree landscapes and jammed more on.
@Raoul: Also a disability.
@Ryan: My money’s on Ursula.
@Rick Deckard: Exactly! GSS!
January 30th, 2020 at 8:01 am
@DaveM: or it just could be a shitty crossbow.
January 31st, 2020 at 9:18 pm
Must be one of those “Easy-to-Read” books they had at the school library.