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Click for larger imageDionysius Rogers Comments: It’s helpful that the three characters are numbered on their uniforms to verify the count. So that big fork-tongued face is a “city state”?
Published 1969
(Average: 6.75 out of 10)
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Dionysius Rogers Comments: It’s helpful that the three characters are numbered on their uniforms to verify the count. So that big fork-tongued face is a “city state”?
Published 1969
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April 7th, 2020 at 10:06 am
ET phone food.
April 7th, 2020 at 10:21 am
“You say Lo-Moo-Ro, I say Lo-Moor-O,
Lo-Moo-Ro, Lo-Moor-O,
Oh, let’s call the whole thing off…”
…so sang the citizen-dentists of the Galactic Federation as they helped the giant, slavering, fork-tongued creature at the twisted, tubular gates of the embattled city-state.
Phew, a picture really does say a 1000 words.
April 7th, 2020 at 10:58 am
When photobombs go wrong.
April 7th, 2020 at 1:25 pm
Was this book marked down to 65 of your Earth monetary units or did someone just think that monkey-snake thing would look better with a twirly moustache.
April 7th, 2020 at 1:59 pm
@Francis: 65 anythings seems excessive for this, which would explain the shocked reaction.
April 7th, 2020 at 3:27 pm
Anyone else reminded of this old album cover?
April 7th, 2020 at 4:02 pm
@THX 1139
Zimbabwean dollars?
April 7th, 2020 at 4:04 pm
Powell Books. Each sentence is 600 words long, with innumerable subordinate clauses, and it ends by denying that a jeremiad about ‘rivers of blood’ is we don’t make him Prime Minister is in any way inflammatory.
April 7th, 2020 at 4:33 pm
Are those green coils some sort of huge plant, and the head is just kinda floating there, or is it some sort of vast serpentine critter with an inconsistent color scheme? (If so, Our Heroes haven’t picked a very good place to stand). And is it Lomooro, or just some random monster encounter, with Lomooro being possibly a city state, a God, the ruler of a city state, or a local superstore with terrible labor practices?
@Rogers: if that’s a city-state, then perhaps the citizens are some sort of intelligent worms inhabiting its intestines, like those inside Philip J Fry in that Futurama episode, only rather larger. They may need to go around to the tradesman’s entrance.
April 7th, 2020 at 5:43 pm
@Tag Wizard – OK this “Albert Augustus” guy is just Charles Nuetzel and the cover monster looks suspiciously like the monster on his other Powell Book title Warriors of Noomas.
April 7th, 2020 at 5:49 pm
There’s a remarkable amount of imagination and detail put into the depiction of that tongue. An amazing amount of detail.
A disturbing amount of detail …
April 7th, 2020 at 5:59 pm
@B’Mancer—that link don’t work. Probably Chinese GSS sabotage. Can you give us a hint?
April 7th, 2020 at 6:13 pm
@BC – https://www.amazon.com/Court-Crimson-King/dp/B0042EJD5I
April 7th, 2020 at 6:56 pm
“Easy, big guy, this shot of Botox will clear those wrinkles right away.”
April 7th, 2020 at 7:34 pm
@B’Mancer—ah, yes the yellow jester does not dance but gently pulls the strings
(all I can remember). Tongue work a little less elaborate, but good connection!
April 7th, 2020 at 9:08 pm
That’s a mighty tiny spaceship. None of the Galactic Citizens could fit in it. Or is it the city-state, of very small inhabitants?
(sings) Lomorro, Lomorro, you’re always a real bad day…
@Francis: it took me quite a while to spot the 65, so obviously I thought the latter.
@Bruce: I was thinking inconsistent color scheme. And apparently the planet is Lomorro.
@Raoul: and he founded and edited the line of novels too.
@B’man: I would purchase one of those options. No points for guessing which.
April 9th, 2020 at 6:36 am
@GSS ex-noob: I imagine the ship looks small because the artist wouldn’t know perspective if it came up behind him in the form of an inconsistently colored fanged skull with a 65 for a nose and bit him in the ass.
April 10th, 2020 at 2:51 am
@Bruce: True dat. Another fine product of UAI.
April 10th, 2020 at 10:04 pm
People who bought this title expecting a cheesy comic-book were sorely disappointed to find there were no comics panels inside – just text.
April 11th, 2020 at 1:48 am
@AR Yngve: it does look a bit like a pre-Code horror comic cover, although those often had better artists.
April 11th, 2020 at 8:30 pm
@Bruce: yeah, this guy isn’t a patch on EC/Mad. Even when the interior art of the Brand Ecch comics was bad, they tried to get a better cover. (Still true in comics today)
Also, RIP Mort Drucker. A true genius.
April 13th, 2020 at 4:20 am
@GSS ex-noob: Mort was a caricature art _machine_. Over a half of century of consistently solid work in pretty much every issue of MAD, plus many many side projects. Sad to hear he’s passed on.
91, eh? It seems to me that cartoonists are a long-lived bunch: Al Hirshfeld lived to be 99, Gahan Wilson to 89: I’d better start drawing!