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Published 1996
Tagged with: Baen Books • big hair • bighanditis • bladed weapons • crown • damsel • devil's dumplings • dude • font problems • Ken Tunnell • L. Sprague De Camp • Smirky McSmug
Pictured: Everything Alfred E. Neuman’s fantasy actually has.
The Post is right. I can’t count high enough to number all the fantasy elements in this cover.
He needs the sword to lever the crown off.
Look at her abdomen. She really is built like a brick sh!thouse.
@Tor Mented: I think those are scales and she’s a Lamia?
(Maybe De Camp anticipated anime and he’s got an unwanted harem of monster girls. This has led him to get extremely drunk.)
The king looks like he’s knocked silly. Needs a circle of flying birds and stars around his head.
I’m waiting for Conan to barge in, knock the crown off King Smirky’s head, and swoop the naga off her feet…tail.
@JP—definitely smirky, probably because he’s sporting such a jaunty crown!
@Tor M, @B’Mancer—GSS, GSS!
OK, I’m seeing it but not seeing it – which celebrity does the king look like?
@Bruce: Now that you say that, I can see the lamia scales. I guess I must have been distracted by her … hair.
This is the epitome of Smirky McSmug.
He’s so reluctant he doesn’t even know how to wear a crown.
@THX: A drunk Bryan Cranston playing a complete jerk?
@Tor, B’man, JP: GSS!
@GSS xn: I’m thinking a smug James Remar now? Someone like that.
What?? “Everything a fantasy should have?” Did the copy editor lose his marbles? “A fantasy” should never have just one volume. Fantasy fans are never satisfied with less than a trilogy.
@THX: I might agree with a young Remar, except this guy’s jaw is too square. James’ chin is not the entire width of his head.
@ARY: You missed the fine print. “Complete in one volume”. There’s no doubt a trilogy hiding behind Smirky and Cleavage.
@GSS xn: Richard Hatch, maybe? Could be the hair!
@THX: I’d go with Hatch, sure. Everything from the nose north definitely.
The smirk appears imported from someone else.
@THX, x-Noob: I’m thinking mid-80s Griffin Dunne.
Definitely a young Stephen McHattie.
THX 1139, a younger Bryan Cranston, I reckon..
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March 4th, 2021 at 11:13 am
Pictured: Everything Alfred E. Neuman’s fantasy actually has.
March 4th, 2021 at 11:19 am
The Post is right. I can’t count high enough to number all the fantasy elements in this cover.
March 4th, 2021 at 11:45 am
He needs the sword to lever the crown off.
March 4th, 2021 at 2:37 pm
Look at her abdomen. She really is built like a brick sh!thouse.
March 4th, 2021 at 4:40 pm
@Tor Mented: I think those are scales and she’s a Lamia?
(Maybe De Camp anticipated anime and he’s got an unwanted harem of monster girls. This has led him to get extremely drunk.)
March 4th, 2021 at 5:08 pm
The king looks like he’s knocked silly.
Needs a circle of flying birds and stars around his head.
March 4th, 2021 at 6:16 pm
I’m waiting for Conan to barge in, knock the crown off King Smirky’s head, and swoop the naga off her feet…tail.
March 4th, 2021 at 6:50 pm
@JP—definitely smirky, probably because he’s sporting such a jaunty crown!
@Tor M, @B’Mancer—GSS, GSS!
March 5th, 2021 at 12:15 am
OK, I’m seeing it but not seeing it – which celebrity does the king look like?
March 5th, 2021 at 12:34 am
@Bruce: Now that you say that, I can see the lamia scales.
I guess I must have been distracted by her … hair.
March 5th, 2021 at 3:42 am
This is the epitome of Smirky McSmug.
He’s so reluctant he doesn’t even know how to wear a crown.
@THX: A drunk Bryan Cranston playing a complete jerk?
@Tor, B’man, JP: GSS!
March 5th, 2021 at 10:30 am
@GSS xn: I’m thinking a smug James Remar now? Someone like that.
March 6th, 2021 at 8:43 pm
What?? “Everything a fantasy should have?” Did the copy editor lose his marbles?
“A fantasy” should never have just one volume. Fantasy fans are never satisfied with less than a trilogy.
March 6th, 2021 at 11:42 pm
@THX: I might agree with a young Remar, except this guy’s jaw is too square. James’ chin is not the entire width of his head.
@ARY: You missed the fine print. “Complete in one volume”. There’s no doubt a trilogy hiding behind Smirky and Cleavage.
March 8th, 2021 at 9:25 am
@GSS xn: Richard Hatch, maybe? Could be the hair!
March 8th, 2021 at 11:21 pm
@THX: I’d go with Hatch, sure. Everything from the nose north definitely.
The smirk appears imported from someone else.
March 8th, 2021 at 11:25 pm
@THX, x-Noob: I’m thinking mid-80s Griffin Dunne.
August 16th, 2021 at 10:46 am
Definitely a young Stephen McHattie.
October 7th, 2023 at 8:08 pm
THX 1139, a younger Bryan Cranston, I reckon..