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Click for larger imageOumuamua Comments: With guardians like these, who needs enemies?
Published 1972
(Average: 6.50 out of 10)
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Oumuamua Comments: With guardians like these, who needs enemies?
Published 1972
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April 29th, 2021 at 9:40 am
When you decide you can’t outrun a quadruple-nostrilled horse in your carpet slippers.
April 29th, 2021 at 1:45 pm
If the guardians were guardianing his socks they did a piss poor job.
April 29th, 2021 at 1:48 pm
That moment when the Sixties dream turned into a very bad trip.
April 29th, 2021 at 5:49 pm
“Told you I could outrun that horse. He’s still wearing his shoes, but not me!”
April 29th, 2021 at 8:18 pm
I highly recommend this book for horseracing fans.
April 30th, 2021 at 1:28 am
“This fat camp sucks!”
“You have five more pounds to lose before your parents come to pick you up – so keep running, or it’s the whip.”
April 30th, 2021 at 3:44 am
So the horse is either some sort of mutant with a weird head (and other anatomy), or it’s a robot with the ability to fly.
Then the question I have is, why make the robot in horse form? Why not make it in some sort of streamlined scary-looking vehicle with lots of armament? Judging by the sun and the sky, this isn’t Earth anyway.
Why did the kid take his shoes off in the first place? Even sock-less, he’d be able to run better in the shoes.
Did the artist run out of time or paint partway through?
April 30th, 2021 at 10:48 am
@GSS xn: We read this at school, and it was one of John Christopher’s future Earth dystopia books, kind of like Nineteen Eighty-Four for kids. So the horse is a normal horse, the planet is our own, and the shoes… well, I’ll be darned if I know the significance of those.
May 1st, 2021 at 2:43 am
@THX: So I guess you’re one up on the artist, since he doesn’t seem to have read it at any age.
May 1st, 2021 at 3:04 am
@GSS ex-noob, @THX 1139: maybe he was trying to sneak out of fat camp and had taken off his shoes to be quieter. And then the Anomalous Horse starts chasing him and he doesn’t have time to stop and put his shoes on.
That certainly is a pretty darn stylized sunrise (or possibly sunset)
May 2nd, 2021 at 1:06 am
The sunrise/set looks like it should be an iron-on of a t-shirt at this era. And later emblazoned upon a minivan.
May 6th, 2021 at 9:59 pm
Typical! If you don’t TELL the kids to wear their shoes, they’ll run around barefoot no matter what the weather – or even if they’re being chased by terrifying mustant horses!