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Click for larger imageDr Bob Comments I predict a riot, I predict a riot.
Published 1986
(Average: 4.94 out of 10)
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Dr Bob Comments I predict a riot, I predict a riot.
Published 1986
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June 18th, 2020 at 9:45 am
“In an alternate America”. . . missile bondage is a thing.
June 18th, 2020 at 10:15 am
The faux Robocops don’t seem very effective.
June 18th, 2020 at 10:39 am
“Goes excellently with our soup!”
June 18th, 2020 at 1:19 pm
wrack
/rak/
noun: wrack
any of a number of coarse brown seaweeds which grow on the shoreline, frequently each kind forming a distinct band in relation to high- and low-water marks. Many have air bladders for buoyancy
Okay, title, now that I know what wrack is you have my attention.
June 18th, 2020 at 3:00 pm
I dare you – I double dare you – to deny that this cover rocks. Hard.
June 18th, 2020 at 3:02 pm
@ARY – This cover doesn’t rock. It WRACKS!
June 18th, 2020 at 3:17 pm
Thanks, now I’ll be hearing this all day….
“And the man at the back said
Everyone attack and it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it’ll turn into a ballroom blitz”
June 18th, 2020 at 4:33 pm
I’m just thinking of that ‘Quincy’ episode. Or the film ‘Hearts of Fire’.
June 18th, 2020 at 5:14 pm
Is that Derek Smalls wielding the chain there in the foreground?
This must be during his Lamsblood period, when he was not active with Spinal Tap.
June 18th, 2020 at 6:32 pm
And of course the B Side to Perry Como’s “Gorrill o’ My Dreams” is the Tommy Dorsey classic—
🎵🎶🎵
Never thought I’d fall,
But now I hear love call,
Armageddon sentimental over you
🎵🎶🎵
June 18th, 2020 at 8:35 pm
I hate to break it to non-binary Brian May there, but that guitar they’re holding looks like it’s about six inches thick, so it’s gotta weigh upwards of 50 pounds. They’re looking at almost certain future back problems, even if they don’t shatter both ankles on impact. I’ll put in a call to Alternate OSHA.
June 18th, 2020 at 8:55 pm
Interesting they have a top-hatted Slash look-alike guitarist on a 1986 cover.
June 19th, 2020 at 12:35 am
It’s an Alternative America where these tossers were any good at all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Music (mind you, the track record of bands too naff to make it in Britain getting big in America is long and terrifying. Wang Chung FFS).
June 19th, 2020 at 12:55 am
Even in an alternate America, Detroit still looks like Detroit.
June 19th, 2020 at 4:06 am
In an America where things have gone as the Dad from the “We’re not going to take it” video feared…
I read this long ago, and as alternate history goes, it’s a bit odd, not only postulating an America where *Heavy Metal fans are more powerful than US organized labor ever was, but a Cold War between the US and a Nationalist China-British Empire alliance (which can only have come from some sort of game of Cold War Mad Libs)
@Francis Boyle: possibly relating to the Queen of all Rockers having died on the Moon (NASA being no brighter than in our universe when it came to publicity stunts)
@fred: they do look rather less threatening than a lot of actual US police in 2020.
@daard23: even in Americas where South America is ruled by intelligent dinosaurs and the US by President Zombie Lincoln, Detroit will eventually tend to converge on Detroit.
@Lillie Awesome: (Austin Powers voice) That’s a _woman_, baby! (Unless that’s somehow what you meant by non-binary?)
June 19th, 2020 at 8:30 am
Eh, it’s no “Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede”. By the same author. Who is also a big aficionado of 50’s lady wrestlers. Nice guy.
(This has been today’s installment of “Random Things XN has Learned at Cons!”)
This here is some Peak 80’s. And I’m pretty sure all of us can hear it.
@Tag W: I must ask for the “mullet” tag, look at the closest brawler to the
viewer.
@Bruce: So you’re saying Detroit is inevitable. I’m not sure how to feel about that.
In conclusion: \m/
June 22nd, 2020 at 8:52 am
I may be wrong but that looks to be a cover by Glen Fabry, he of Preacher and 2000 AD fame
June 24th, 2020 at 1:16 am
@Jon Oliver: It’s credited to Richard Corben of “Heavy Metal”/Den, so maybe he’s doing a Fabry rip-off.
@Tag W: why is “Don Puckey” here? and why did he get stuck with such a terrible name? Must be a pseudonym.
June 24th, 2020 at 3:56 am
@GSSxN – From ISFDB:
“Cover art by Richard Corben” (over) “Cover design by Don Puckey” stated on the copyright page.”
June 24th, 2020 at 4:35 pm
@Bruce A Munro, GSS ex-noob: If this is an alternate universe where there’s been no UK influence on rock and roll, are these people corybanting to Pat Boone or Lawrence Welk?
June 25th, 2020 at 11:52 pm
@Tag: Thanks. I’m even less impressed by the design than the art. One might even say it’s bull puckey.
I still want the “mullet” tag. This might be the cover with the most mullets ever on this site.
@Tat: Maybe US rock and roll picked up the blues directly from Black people instead of second-hand from Brits? Maybe they’re doing some sort of completely unholy kind of heavy metal country-western? (Apocalypse indeed!)
June 26th, 2020 at 3:13 am
@GSS ex-noob: They’d never have done that without something equally big making the ‘white stations’ play stuff their owners refused to countenance. Any alternate history without Skiffle-kids who heard the whole of American music muddled up together (cross-pollinating in ways it never would have in America) then coming to Chicago and wanting to visit Chess Records, going to Memphis and visiting the clubs the tour promoters would rather they hadn’t and so on, is probably still going to be stuck in our universe’s version of 1961. Unless somehow Johnny Hallyday managed to cross over in America and made every teenage boy want to form a garage band playing le Ye Ye…
And Heavy Metal without Brummies? forget it.
June 27th, 2020 at 2:24 am
@Tat: Given @Bruce’s synopsis, maybe the Brummies are singing in Mandarin? It might be some sort of horribly-amplified Chinese traditional music, and then the Americans translated it.
We can’t actually tell what it sounds like — only that, like Detroit, mullets are converged upon in all universes.
August 14th, 2020 at 10:48 pm
I didn’t say there hadn’t been British influence on US music: they were in a cold war situation in the 1980s, but I don’t recall how much travel and contact between the countries there had been earlier. Since the situation was basically “Imperialist powers vs imperialist powers”, no doubt there was rather more free movement than between the US and Soviet blocks in our world.
(And now I’m starting an alternate history debate. I think I have drifted a bit far afield from the cover pic.)
August 17th, 2020 at 11:08 pm
Yah! You can only do jump poses like that with a trampoline! What do you think, we’re stupid or something?