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Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments Some of you around here have been carping about alleged rules violations lately. Yeah, well, here’s another one.
Published 1982
(Average: 3.92 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments Some of you around here have been carping about alleged rules violations lately. Yeah, well, here’s another one.
Published 1982
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June 17th, 2020 at 9:54 am
Shouldn’t this be The Windth of Gath?
June 17th, 2020 at 11:28 am
Dumarest….no….really? What’s the arch villains name, Smartysnooze of Ganymede?
June 17th, 2020 at 1:32 pm
“Mr. Dumarest, as your psychiatrist I’ll have to bring this up… are you familiar with ‘helmet fixation’?”
“This is about the size of my helmet, is it? There’s nothing wrong with it! NOTHING!!”
June 17th, 2020 at 1:59 pm
That guy is living in his own echo chamber. He must be a CEO.
June 17th, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Just last month I picked up the audiobooks of EC Tubb’s Dumarest Saga – this cover is entirely suitable for the book, although Earl Dumarest is wearing too many clothes. EC Tubbs was a highly-respected Englishman who wrote a lot of SciFi, but I had never run across him before.
These are like Golden Age space opera, but written across the 60s, 70s and 80s. This cover must be for a reprint, and in 1982 would have been totally reasonable. Except for that helmet, of course.
June 17th, 2020 at 3:44 pm
The answer to yesterday’s quiz: Contestant B, the Archimandrite, got his PPE right; the left-handed gladiator was almost there but had his personal hand-towel on wrong, lycra-man had his facial protection on back to front and Julie Andrews tried to drink the hand-sanitiser.
June 17th, 2020 at 4:03 pm
Meteorology note: The Winds of Gath can reliably measured by observing the movements of a semi-naked gladiator’s loincloth. For obvious reasons these observations require the wearing of specialised headgear.
June 17th, 2020 at 4:11 pm
I love the wild, detailed work around the base of her throne. It takes me back to my best friend and I drawing ridiculous John Berkey-esque space stations when we were supposed to be paying attention and learning about the Ottoman Empire or whatnot.
June 17th, 2020 at 4:19 pm
Congratulations! Everyone gets a ridiculous hat today.
June 17th, 2020 at 7:48 pm
C’mon, doesn’t she seem just a wee bit . . . tipsy?
“Hic! yeshirr indeedy—a couple more shwigs of thish here Alpine Blu vodka and I won’t give a damn how shtupid his shtupid helmet looksh!”
P.S. @ mouseover text—GSS!
June 18th, 2020 at 4:16 am
Milady there apparently is completely drunk off the blue stuff, thus she doesn’t care about her inadequate brassiere (nice new tag). Maybe it tore last time she took a header off her floating throne. Or it got stuck on her hat. Or she’s got it on backwards.
Meanwhile, Dumarest is *very* excited about something off to his right, but something terrible seems to have happened to his ankle, and why doesn’t his bubble helmet have a front to it?
If it’s really that windy, maybe he can’t hear her due to the whistling noises her throne must make, what with all those holes. Worse than the Golden Gate Bridge (https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881451/the-golden-gate-bridge-sounds-like-a-david-lynch-movie-now#:~:text=Nope%E2%80%94the%20eerie%20sound%20you,spaces%2C%20it%20creates%20a%20hum.)
No idea what the robed dude and the gladiator are doing there.
@Tat: GSS!
Although I might quibble that she doesn’t much look like Julie, and that no one’s going to come near the gladiator as long as he’s got the sword. Maybe the winner is preaching DOOM to come upon the others for not being prepared.
@B’man: I think Gath’s supply of ridiculous hats has been depleted.
@BC: Yes! “She’s drunk” is the first thing I thought of (after “Egad”)! That blue stuff must be strong. She looks to be slipping off the aerial throne, and Dumarest is apparently just going to let it happen.
June 18th, 2020 at 5:07 am
Just realized:
Dumarest got his hair done. He’s wearing one of those big bubble dryers like at the salon. Of course he can’t hear her over that noise.
June 18th, 2020 at 6:39 pm
@GSSxn—Regarding that wacky brassiere the first thing I noticed was that the left “cup” looks a lot like a hand. Perfect for titillating the unconscious of an adolescent lad. Much better than a hair salon prop bubble helmet in this regard.
June 22nd, 2020 at 3:23 pm
It’s remarkable that a painting could be kitschy and bland at the same time. Look how ornate and “busy” that throne is. And yet it’s dull. The whole cover has blockbuster-movie ambitions but made-for-TV production values.
June 22nd, 2020 at 3:30 pm
@THX 1139 in 1. GSS.