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Good Show Sir Comments: Hans Brinker as you’ve never seen him before!
Merci Alain for sending this in!
Published 1977
(Average: 7.68 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Hans Brinker as you’ve never seen him before!
Merci Alain for sending this in!
Published 1977
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April 13th, 2020 at 9:35 am
Cutting your own hair in self-isolation doesn’t always go well.
April 13th, 2020 at 12:51 pm
Ohhhhhhhhhh my.
Seagull is about to either deliver his opinion on this cover or make someone lucky.
Peter Fonda? Alain Delon?
April 13th, 2020 at 1:36 pm
I’m getting a strong Stormy Daniels vibe here.
Anyone else?
April 13th, 2020 at 2:27 pm
It’s good to see the censor sheep back in business. Bless the horny French.
April 13th, 2020 at 4:27 pm
I Sphinx the Body Electric.
April 13th, 2020 at 5:35 pm
Cyborg Carl Sagan seems very interested in Stormy’s, err, hair.
April 13th, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Cover illustrates a single story, or cover illustration compiles elements from all the stories? Only you can discover the answer, at the low, low price of 15 francs!
April 13th, 2020 at 6:17 pm
I bet you didn’t know that the Large Hadron Collider is powered by French speed skaters.
April 13th, 2020 at 6:35 pm
‘Daft Punk is playing at my house, in MY house
And the porn star, she’s got three arms
yeah, Daft Punk is playing at my house, in MY house
Show the Sphinx the ropes, kid, show him the ropes…’
April 13th, 2020 at 10:00 pm
Actually, it’s four arms on the bare-breasted damsel. I can’t figure out if the two translucent ones are really “there” or if it’s some UAI-inspired technique for showing movement (or maybe she’s Shiva). At any rate it’s hard to account for the bloody hook.
April 13th, 2020 at 10:43 pm
@fred: Jonathan Livingstone Seagull approves of _none_ of this.
@B. Chiclitz:she also has an extra leg.(The lower sheep actually makes things worse IMHO, since it implies that she’s hooked _herself_).
@JuanPaul: is that the Large Hadron Collider, or mecha-Sphinx’s rear end? (Actually, maybe the Large Hadron Collider _is_ a mecha-Sphinx).
April 13th, 2020 at 11:59 pm
It’s like the artist captured the exact moment when her hair got too heavy for her neck.
April 14th, 2020 at 4:29 am
What is this I don’t even.
A giant Sphinx head is electrified. 2 nudists — him with a metal arm, her apparently being strangled by her own hair, plus cutting herself very oddly (with an arm made of hair? and she has 3 legs?), and a speed skating race by robots wielding chains. And a seagull.
The mouseover text says it all.
Ah, J’ai Lu. The finest of merde.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:53 pm
Picture the scene in 1977…
– “Aha, what’s that, Michel? A dirty book?”
– “Zatapatique, no! It is Science Fiction!”
– “Ah, stories about naked ladies of the future? Lemme see!”
– “All right, look if you want to…”
– [Flips pages] “But this is not a dirty book, Michel… just boring stories about mutants and robots and aliens… written by Englishmen and Americans!?”
– “Look, can I read my book in peace?”
– “Here, enjoy your ‘Science Fiction’… weirdo!”
– “I’ll become a writer one day… you’ll see!”
– “You’d better not be a Science Fiction writer, then… if you want any readers! Ha ha!”
And so, the young Michel Houellebecq realized that he must never call his writings “Science Fiction” in order to be accepted as a serious French writer….
April 15th, 2020 at 12:40 am
@ARY: since when has anyone outside Paris taken Houellebecq at all seriously? He can’t even spell ‘Wellbeck’.
April 16th, 2020 at 3:00 am
Man, at first I thought this was a huge typebook describing the huge family of sans-serif fonts called Univers.
This has to be less dry than that. Doesn’t it?
April 17th, 2020 at 6:51 am
@Hammy: I’ll bet you can guess which I’d rather read. At least on the bus.
April 20th, 2020 at 7:39 am
The only thing I know for certain about this cover is the girl with the hair and possibly extra appendages is totally power rocking “I’m a little teapot”!
April 21st, 2020 at 12:52 am
@DaveM: GSS!
Maybe the Sphinx head is an amp and/or speaker.