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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: Somehow, Capitaine Futur got his head stuck in a blender.
Thanks to Alain for sending this in.
Published 2017
(Average: 6.27 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Somehow, Capitaine Futur got his head stuck in a blender.
Thanks to Alain for sending this in.
Published 2017
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February 25th, 2020 at 9:44 am
Quite a nice retro cover, actually – and good to see Wilford Brimley exposed for the ruddy dastard he is.
February 25th, 2020 at 10:00 am
Is Capitane Futur now l’empereur de l’espace? He’s come up in the universe since I knew him. (He was only Private Present back then.)
February 25th, 2020 at 1:30 pm
In the future no one is overweight.
February 25th, 2020 at 1:42 pm
Zut alors, mon capitane! Ce cyborg doré s’enfuit avec votre radio art déco!
February 25th, 2020 at 2:14 pm
La Legion Extraterrestre?
February 25th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
The Doctor found it hard enough to laser-sculpt without the subject constantly scratching himself, his space-suit shrinking in the wash and the Brain of Morbius making bitchy comments behind his back.
And, once again, they’d given him a space-helmet with lights on the inside, so all he could see was his own nose, magnified.
February 25th, 2020 at 2:31 pm
Actually, that is a “modernized” but quite faithful version of an original cover – all the way down to the helmet design (well, the original helmet looked less like a blender):
https://karavansara.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/219505188_00085e3e0e_z.jpg
February 25th, 2020 at 2:53 pm
In the future, european colonists will use superior technology to oppress indigenous cultures and steal thier shit.
February 25th, 2020 at 9:56 pm
I love the way they squeezed that second “i” into “Capitaine.”
February 26th, 2020 at 2:20 am
Ah, Captain Future and the Emperor of Space. First ran into Future and the Futuremen in a collection of short writings by humorist (and major writer for the Marx Brothers) SJ Perelman, who did a review of this very tale:
https://nebushumor.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/s-j-perelman-captain-future-block-that-kick/
@A.R. Yngve: one merit of the modern cover is that it doesn’t look as if Captain Future and his robot sidekick have accidentally shot each other.
If people were turning into ape-men left and right, you’d want your head in an airtight container, quick, no matter how much it smelled of avocado smoothies.
@fred: Grag the Robot and Simon the disembodied brain don’t even have to exercise to keep the pounds off.
February 26th, 2020 at 4:22 am
@B. Chiclitz – +1 Protection from Spelling! Missed the gratuitous “i”. Fixed our title typo.
February 26th, 2020 at 5:33 am
It’s nicely retro to go with the retro contents, as @ARY said.
Other than the blender helmet, I like it. Well, and the font that’s making my eyes water from the color combos and the swooshy faux 3-D going in different directions. Le typeface isn’t the artist’s fault, though. Being unable to read the subtitle is due to l’imbecile the art directeur.
The art is absolutely true to the characters’ appearance, as @Bruce’s delightful link shows.
I guess that’s l’empereur lurking in the background, he’s got the cape for it.
Amazing Stories magazine has printed new Capt. Future stories, in the form of prequels starting with young Curt before he became Capt. F.
@Tag, @Admin: the embiggen link no worky.
February 26th, 2020 at 7:58 am
@Bruce A M—thank you for that link. Perelman is exquisite.
topographical map of Dale Arden
February 27th, 2020 at 2:22 am
I read the Perelmen review again and found new gems.
But “Le Belial”?! The devil made them do it? I’d think Capt. F wouldn’t hold with that sort of thing. Or with the original meaning of “worthless”.
Maybe they were referring to Robert Browning’s poem:
Or, my scrofulous French novel
On gray paper with blunt type !
Simply glance at it, you grovel
Hand and foot in BELIAL’s gripe
March 5th, 2020 at 8:17 pm
The description of Captain Future, (from Bruce AM’s link) is nicely ambiguous- “His unruly shock of red hair towered six feet four above the floor,” Obviously supposed to be tall and impressive, but I prefer to imagine him as average or short with a very,very big ginger afro.