Jun 30
Good Show Sir Comments Why is this cover giving me deja vu? And a free GSS Prime subscription to whoever can figure out the title.
Published 1979
Good Show Sir Comments Why is this cover giving me deja vu? And a free GSS Prime subscription to whoever can figure out the title.
Published 1979
June 30th, 2020 at 9:54 am
No, we need THE Bertram Chandler.
June 30th, 2020 at 1:16 pm
I like the little tri-spoke adjustment wheel near the base of the chair. Because, of course you want to add a certain ergonomic adjustment to the command chair before conquering all of time and space.
Hidden meaning department: After painting so many of these covers it would appear that the artist felt the need to sneak in a peace symbol.
If only as an afterthought.
June 30th, 2020 at 1:28 pm
He must be “The Commodore”.
And her stripper name is “Spartan Planet”
Did I win?
June 30th, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Is her name Spartan Planet?
June 30th, 2020 at 1:35 pm
Is he sporting a Hitler mustache?
June 30th, 2020 at 4:15 pm
Spartan Planet, the touch typist, looks for a sea to set down the Commodore from the magnificence of her Space Command Chair and Mobile Artillery Emplacement.
June 30th, 2020 at 4:24 pm
@Raoul: the shading leaves it ambiguous, I think. Combined with the peace symbol it suggests the artist didn’t like Chandler’s attitudes.
Once again, Alexander gives us helmets which neither keep in air nor offer the head any padding vs shocks (that’s quite a chair, but it lacks seatbelts.) My only explanation is that space is full of palm trees and you have to protect your head from falling coconuts.
June 30th, 2020 at 4:27 pm
It’s possible that Ari saw this cover and told the director ‘Chris, make me something just like this book. These books. Whatever’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8eRzOYhLuw
Or, more likely, the director said ‘there’s about five minutes of ‘Barbarella’ not recycled by Duran Duran and Kylie Minogue’.
Then again, if the Commodor’s name is ‘Grimes’, maybe hers is ‘X AE A XII’.
(This has been your daily ‘I’m down wid da yoot’ joke).
June 30th, 2020 at 5:04 pm
@Raoul: Ha, ha, no. It’s a Charlie Chaplin moustache,
June 30th, 2020 at 6:10 pm
@THX: Ha, ha, no. It’s a Michael Jordan mustache.
June 30th, 2020 at 7:16 pm
“Koob 5
CONTAINS GEMS, JADE FOR HIGHMOOR EMO
for the meeting”. At venue, consort Mepediad Fed has
MOTHER OCOMA SEATED
for the miter fits together with
TAN PLANE PARTS.
by Trench Rambler Ada
June 30th, 2020 at 7:43 pm
If you follow the barrel of the rifle down into the rifle far enough I can’t see how it can function as a weapon.
June 30th, 2020 at 9:33 pm
I assume Good Show Sir’s deja vu is being brought on by artist Paul Alexander’s very recent cover The Winds of Gath.
June 30th, 2020 at 9:34 pm
So they put the novellas “Commodore at Sea” and “Spartan Planet” (both of which are retitles, so it could have been worse! We could have also had “Previously titled” for both!) together in one book for a re-issue.
And then they got Paul to do another in his endless series of “scantily clad women wearing ridiculous hats on over-detailed thrones” for the cover.
However, the previous thrones were attached to something. This one’s just floating out in space. As @Ryan said, it’s a command chair and artillery emplacement, but apparently you can also get your hair done with the built-in salon dryer.
squints at bottom of throne And judging by the symbol, it’s made by Mercedes-Benz. Sturdy German engineering lasts till the end of time.
Is the man in back The Commodore, or her Space Beautician? Is he a high-ranking officer in the Space Beauty Navy? Is his armor part of the throne?
@GSS: It’s OK, they won’t feel the rocket exhaust. Since their helmets don’t keep air in, they’re already dead. Maybe it’s an elaborate Future Viking funeral ceremony. Launch the queen and her consort into space, and then burn them with rocket exhaust.
@anon: Delightful to see you again! GSS for working with all those words. Entirely appropriate for Fed and Mother Ocoma, which is what I’m going to call these two from now on.
June 30th, 2020 at 10:36 pm
Amid all the great commentary, I’m surprised no one has mentioned her impressive boots, suitable for storing extra space ammo for the Commodore’s manly gun.
I don’t think that’s a peace symbol, but a Mercedes logo. Her chair must have been one of those advanced Super Weapons the Third Reich couldn’t produce enough of in time to turn the tide of the war.
Bibliomancer wins the deja vu contest. At first I thought maybe this recent cover was the answer, but I wasn’t certain.
July 1st, 2020 at 12:42 am
You can tell The Commodore’s at sea because of his headdress that looks like a jumbo shrimp….
July 1st, 2020 at 4:35 am
@Hammy, #16, I think you misspelled “transparent armadillo”.
July 2nd, 2020 at 1:21 am
Let’s call it an ocean-going transparent armadillo with tentacles and call it a day.
@BC: I thought it was a Mercedes logo too. You’re right, she could get one clip in each of her boots — but that would ruin the fit and line of them.
November 23rd, 2021 at 10:06 pm
When she fires employees, she FIRES them!