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Click for larger imageSideshow Bob Comments: Evil children. Amirite?
Published 1976
(Average: 5.43 out of 10)
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Sideshow Bob Comments: Evil children. Amirite?
Published 1976
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February 26th, 2020 at 12:57 pm
A big bodiless head on a cover should get a ‘Zardoz’ tag.
February 26th, 2020 at 1:04 pm
“I said Mr Spock, not Dr Spock!”
February 26th, 2020 at 2:18 pm
Baby Bill Clinton: the untold story of his power over women.
February 26th, 2020 at 2:20 pm
I think that, like Michelangelo, our unknown artist has no clue about painting women in general, and breasts in particular. Though, to be fair, he’s a dab hand at swooshy blue-green stuff. (It’s a little known fact that Michelangelo wanted to depict God as a swooshy blue-green energy being but was just not up to the task so he had to make him an old man instead.)
February 26th, 2020 at 2:21 pm
Ah, “psi powers” – the pet power fantasy of every sunken-chested reader who ever had sand kicked in his/her face at the beach.
It’s challenging for a cover artist to show such powers without resorting to cheap, flashy effects – since there’s literally nothing real or substantial to go on.
You can refer to real stuff to make a spaceship seem realistic and credible – but what things from the real world can you show as a physical reference to a person who has, or wished he had, mental powers over others…?
Wait! I’ve got it…
An anorak.
February 26th, 2020 at 3:54 pm
Looks like the Giant Psychic Head people have this one in the bag.
February 26th, 2020 at 6:50 pm
@Tat W—yes, and that’s how he came to be called “The Comeback Kid.”
February 26th, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Are the “three forms of humanity” mommy, daddy and baby?
February 26th, 2020 at 8:59 pm
“So if I make them both have headaches every night, they’ll never have sex again and I won’t have to worry about any stupid siblings! nyyahaha . . .”
February 27th, 2020 at 12:06 am
So do the naked people represent the other two types of humanity, or has the third group – perhaps the Very Germy People Who Wear Too Many Clothes – decided to be not appearing on this cover?
February 27th, 2020 at 2:11 am
Giant evil children heads, gender non-conforming people, and dudes with splitting headaches.
Tough choice, but I’m going with the person on the left. Do we have a “dude looks like a lady” tag? Because there’s devil’s dumplings, but their head looks male. If they’re supposed to be female, I’m still going with her. As long as she/they are careful about what she/they give birth to.
I reiterate my choice if the swooshy stuff is psi powers emanating from evil baby and causing agony to the adults. That kid is definitely the first to die.
@fred: Agreed.
@Bruce: Earth did not Inherit any clothing technology in this time. Which likely means there aren’t diapers — ewww, if there’s a Giant Evil Baby digestive tract.
February 28th, 2020 at 8:00 am
@GSS ex-noob: maybe that’s why the giant babies developed psychic powers – to force people to clean up after them.
February 29th, 2020 at 6:06 am
@Bruce: Why is it our wildest speculations here make more sense than many of the covers?
Even if Giant Evil Baby is just a head, it’s going to secrete from nose and mouth. Future Earth better have absorbent technology even if they’ve given up clothing.
Or else the Clothed Germy People are just off-cover due to being a lower caste.
April 17th, 2022 at 8:29 pm
My horizons have been immeasurably expanded. Here I thought the three forms of humanity were Larry, Curly and Moe. But now I see they are Snap (Mr. Excedrin on the right), Crackle (the hermaphrodite on the left) and Pop (Baby Zardoz)
April 18th, 2022 at 2:28 am
“Here I thought the three forms of humanity were Larry, Curly and Moe. ”
Never was quite sure myself where Shemp fit in.
April 18th, 2022 at 6:03 am
And what of Manny, Moe, and Jack?
July 1st, 2022 at 4:08 am
The title of this book reminds me of a quote from the eminently-quotable Israeli diplomat/politician Abba Eban. When describing Harry Truman, he made mention of how he expected Harry to be more self-effacing and modest, but found just the opposite, especially after Harry’s presidential election victory.
Eban said “…I have always been willing to accept the New Testament prediction that ‘the meek shall inherit the Earth’ but I have often wondered whether, having inherited it, they would continue to be meek.”