Aug 13
Raoul Comments It’s bad enough to lose your life. But then to lose your love and kingdom also? What a bummer.
Published 1996
Raoul Comments It’s bad enough to lose your life. But then to lose your love and kingdom also? What a bummer.
Published 1996
August 13th, 2020 at 9:55 am
I like to see a man who enjoys his work.
August 13th, 2020 at 12:59 pm
I think he’s really playing the game just to get his shirt back.
The alliteration guy must have been on vacation when the book was titled.
August 13th, 2020 at 1:41 pm
“We can’t allow him to get the novelty occasional table!”
August 13th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
I’m getting definite flashbacks of Dominik Diamond and Patrick Moore c.1992. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVUJ7ePLgWo )
What’s puzzling me is that this tableau of Hunk and Damsel happening inside Skorpius’s fond embrace seems to be a hologram he’s using but he can only see them from the back. Is he really into hunkbutts or is he showing off to the readers, like someone who invites a neighbour to see the game on a new HD telly?
August 13th, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Somebody needs to shout “Behind you!” twice to the damsel.
August 13th, 2020 at 6:08 pm
Fauxnan: You know, I think this game might be EVIL!
Damsel: Yeah, whatevs.
(They go on to get drunk on whatever is in the cauldron.)
August 13th, 2020 at 6:30 pm
All those wizardly powers, but unable to deal with his orthodontic problems. And man, the shoulders on that outfit are out of control.
@fred: they definitely both look like they’ve already lost their shirts.
@Tat Wood: maybe he’s invited some other sorcerors over? Although it strikes me he may just like looking at his enemies from behind: makes them look less threatening and more easily stabbed (in the back)
August 13th, 2020 at 10:31 pm
Cheerfully grinning demonic figure + completely obvious Faux-nan + damsel in Princess Leia outfit = Generic Extruded Fantasy Product.
Is this based on someone’s D&D game from the 80’s? I’d bet on it.
Sharon’s way too into alliteration. And that blurb, as Raoul says, is sort of backwards.
@BC: Indeed; almost everything on this cover is BEHIND YOU.
August 14th, 2020 at 1:00 am
Cauldron’s actually full of dry ice – you gotta have the right look for your sorcerous dungeon.
August 14th, 2020 at 9:47 am
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