Being Van Vogt, I’d expect a computer in this story to be the size of three planets. Luckily, they didn’t draw any magnetic tape spools, punched cards or Apple Macs so maybe this drubbing is happening… inside the mainframe.
I don’t know what’s more interesting, the idea that he’s trying to push the cover apart and escape this awful scene, or the brick-sized object that seems to be inserted under the skin of his right forearm.
Excuse me while I type in ultra-modern Computer Lettering on my ultra-modern Thinking Machine, and send them via the Electro-Cables to the Ultra-Message Board known as “Good Show Sir”….
November 23rd, 2020 at 11:24 am
If this is ultramodern, where are their phones?
November 23rd, 2020 at 12:13 pm
I don’t think gay S&M wet-and-messy balloon fetish porn has been invented yet so that makes it ultra-modern, I suppose.
November 23rd, 2020 at 12:39 pm
That guy on the ground is getting an ultra modern kick in the groin.
November 23rd, 2020 at 1:59 pm
KITT counts as a computer, and if anyone else has any complaints about David Hasselhoff streaking then I’d think twice about that.
November 23rd, 2020 at 2:38 pm
Rather than being ultra modern, I associated bubble dances with the 1940s — by women.
November 23rd, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Being Van Vogt, I’d expect a computer in this story to be the size of three planets. Luckily, they didn’t draw any magnetic tape spools, punched cards or Apple Macs so maybe this drubbing is happening… inside the mainframe.
(UPDATE)
It’s a bubble-memory… how early 80s.
November 23rd, 2020 at 5:03 pm
@Tat Wood: nothing ages worse than an SF story that promises to be ultra super dooper modern.
November 23rd, 2020 at 5:04 pm
“Is that my body down there? Man, I should have worked out more.”
November 23rd, 2020 at 5:05 pm
This is exactly what it looked like when Karl Bartos left Kraftwerk.
November 23rd, 2020 at 9:28 pm
I don’t know what’s more interesting, the idea that he’s trying to push the cover apart and escape this awful scene, or the brick-sized object that seems to be inserted under the skin of his right forearm.
November 24th, 2020 at 2:34 am
@B.C. (prev.)
Both forearms, actually. The left one looks like an old-fashioned (i.e., from the 1970s) American football arm pad, but implanted subcutaneously….
November 24th, 2020 at 5:21 am
No computers, and nothing modern on the one guy, who hasn’t even progressed as far as clothing technology.
Where are the blobs coming from? What’s on top of KITT?
@Francis: I don’t know for sure, but I’d be surprised if someone hadn’t invented that by 1983. Possibly this artist.
@Tor: maybe the fact that men were doing it was the modern part?
@Bruce: maybe the implanted football pads have something to do with the bubbles.
November 24th, 2020 at 5:50 am
The bubbles are ectoplasm…it’s a ghoooost!
(No doubt that Ghost in the Machine we’ve all heard of).
November 25th, 2020 at 3:19 pm
Excuse me while I type in ultra-modern Computer Lettering on my ultra-modern Thinking Machine, and send them via the Electro-Cables to the Ultra-Message Board known as “Good Show Sir”….
November 26th, 2020 at 5:10 am
Where are Ralf und Florian?
November 26th, 2020 at 9:34 am
@Tracy: Bit of bad news about Florian, I’m afraid… but I don’t think this cover is what happened to him.
November 26th, 2020 at 10:34 pm
@Tracy: “Und now is de time on Shprockets ven ve danse. Naked, mit killer cars.”