Sep 01
Click for larger imageWendy comments: “You want to know why I wear robes with padded shoulders? Look at me! Are you sorry now?”
Published 1976
(Average: 7.43 out of 10)
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Wendy comments: “You want to know why I wear robes with padded shoulders? Look at me! Are you sorry now?”
Published 1976
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September 1st, 2020 at 9:05 am
Faux Manchu looks like he’s regretting setting the air conditioner on max blow. And the sound of the fan is giving his girlfriend a headache.
September 1st, 2020 at 10:53 am
Thinks: “Not the jumbo shrimp for dinner again!”
September 1st, 2020 at 2:33 pm
I like what they’ve done with the cave. Just because you’re hideous parodies of human beings clinging to the last remnants of sanity in a desolate wasteland of withered hopes doesn’t mean you can’t have a nice rug.
September 1st, 2020 at 2:38 pm
Harry Bennett. The master of horrified, bony, screeching women portraits..
September 1st, 2020 at 3:16 pm
That’s not how you draw an exoskeleton.
September 1st, 2020 at 3:35 pm
Maybe she’s not everyone’s dream girl, but Tom Jones likes her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0r8GVPAvd4
September 1st, 2020 at 5:29 pm
If I had x-ray vision I wouldn’t be looking at bones.
September 1st, 2020 at 5:37 pm
Harry Bennett should have had the decency to finesse those “feet” with some tasteful smoke or fog the way the other UAI graduates do.
September 1st, 2020 at 6:48 pm
@fred: You might be, just unintentionally.
September 1st, 2020 at 8:17 pm
Is arthritis pain ruining your scifi/fantasy cover? Talk to your art director about Anatomys™.
September 1st, 2020 at 10:07 pm
“Are you suffering from Partial Invisibility Syndrome (PIS)? Do people see your unsightly bones and/or internal organs at inconvenient times? Try our new hypoallergenic flesh-colored body paint, and never again worry about sending your guests shrieking into the night!”
September 1st, 2020 at 10:10 pm
I have that collection – it’s a bunch of alternate history short stories, some pretty clever. The cover illustration does very little to sell it.
September 1st, 2020 at 10:13 pm
@bruce It sounds like a case of bonus eruptus…
https://youtu.be/DqbQzmHOLP8
September 1st, 2020 at 11:01 pm
@Francis B. 3) …It ties the whole cold, dank cavern together.
September 2nd, 2020 at 12:36 am
Bear-wielding? Where is the bear?
@Francis Boyle, I thought that the blue thing on the ground was the swimming pool, and she is just doing a fancy, tumbling dive for the Manchu judge.
September 2nd, 2020 at 2:04 am
Other than being random, ugly, and stupid there’s not much wrong with this. More’s the pity if it’s as good as @Bruce says.
@B’man: He’s got form. And the forms are ugly.
@Ryan: I agree entirely:
1. No bear.
2. That’s definitely a swimming pool — there’s even a red beach ball.
3. We need a “Faux Manchu” tag — I’ll bet there’s previous examples.
September 2nd, 2020 at 4:21 am
Everything about this cover is godawful ugly.
September 2nd, 2020 at 4:40 am
@GSS ex-noob: “Faux Manchu?” That works as a double pun. 🙂 Although my guess was Faux Middle Easterner – which I admit is rather less euphonious.
September 2nd, 2020 at 8:26 am
@Bruce: #1 said it first, then @Ryan, then me.
ISTM he’s drawn rather more like the painted-up white guys seen in old movies pretending to be Yellow Peril of Our Preshus White Wimmin. Thus, he is a Faux Manchu.
Anyway, that’s 4 of us in favor of the tag, so I hope @TagW agrees.
September 2nd, 2020 at 2:52 pm
I was hoping someone would reply to No. 6 and say “It’s not unusual.”
September 2nd, 2020 at 6:48 pm
I dunno. Tarzan kinda looks like Speedy from the 1950’s Alka Seltzer adverts. Is this a repurposed ad? Is Mr Lion thinking “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing…”?
September 16th, 2020 at 9:53 am
Q: How does one “unravel the threads of time”?
A: With a pair of very, very large knitting needles attached to a spinning black hole.