May 12
Ryan Comments: Lord Purple-Tunic’s propensity for midair sword flourishes always made his winged steeds very nervous.
Published 1979
Ryan Comments: Lord Purple-Tunic’s propensity for midair sword flourishes always made his winged steeds very nervous.
Published 1979
May 12th, 2021 at 10:27 am
These Red Bull ads are doing their brand no favours at all.
May 12th, 2021 at 1:11 pm
The Ring of Fire can be cured with Anusol
May 12th, 2021 at 1:33 pm
You know that thing from Titanic, where he stand on the bow? Like that. Only on a Black Pegasus. And a sword!
May 12th, 2021 at 2:32 pm
Valkyrie #1 got herself some long hair.
May 12th, 2021 at 2:45 pm
I have to assume that the blurb is meant to be read by the “in a world” guy.
“In a world where the word safety has no meaning. . .”
May 12th, 2021 at 3:40 pm
@Cornelius #2: There are places in the background that look like they could use it.
May 12th, 2021 at 4:37 pm
(Sigh) I wish I could get my other rider back. What did I do to get put on kid patrol?
May 12th, 2021 at 4:51 pm
The look on the face of Lord Purple-Tunic’s steed makes me laugh one more time.
This is exactly the wide-eye you see right before you get bit, in my experience.
And speaking of the look on faces, which one is Lord Purple-Tunic experiencing: The need for a product such as suggested by @Cornelius #2, or a “forbidden and magnificent vision” of the “other rider” referenced by @B. Chiclitz #7?
May 12th, 2021 at 5:13 pm
@Cornelius
Explains why he’s sitting on the flying horse so strangely, doesn’t it?
May 12th, 2021 at 5:33 pm
That au pair with the two kids is rethinking her contract
May 12th, 2021 at 5:39 pm
On a side note, I always knew that that ointment was pronounce AN-yew-SOL, but today is the first time that I realized it could be mispronounced in a rather appropriate way.
May 12th, 2021 at 8:04 pm
I think that kid living out his Harry Potter fantasy could have taken one of the children on his flying horse.
May 13th, 2021 at 12:54 am
On a planet of two moons, in a time of war and tyranny, lived a race gifted with a forbidden and magnificent vision:
Johnny Cash music videos….
May 13th, 2021 at 1:46 am
I think the look on the face of the leading pegasus is being caused by severe irritation from the artist’s signature.
May 13th, 2021 at 3:04 am
No, no. It’s supposed to be the “The First Book _of_ the Children of Y-Nelly”, not “The First Book _about_.” Don’t you know your fantasy clichés?
@Hammy: Sitcoms reenacted by trained apes…
Balloon pants…
Edible furniture…
May 13th, 2021 at 3:22 am
looks at sword trajectory
looks at background that blurb is on
leaves mohel joke to the reader
@Ryan: that look comes right before a bite, a stomp, or rearing up. Presumably on the cover of The Second Book, we see Lord Purple-Tunic lying on the ground. No stirrups, no hands, he’s going down.
May 13th, 2021 at 7:10 pm
“On a planet of two moons…”
Don’t you just love when people use the High Fantasy Style? It makes everything seem more… you know… bloated. Sorry, I meant “pregnant with meaning.”
Try the High Fantasy Style in your everyday life to make any humdrum thing seem like a showdown with destiny:
“Quick, friends! Help me find the Key of Locks which I cannot see, that I may unlock the Door of Apartment.”
May 13th, 2021 at 11:51 pm
@ARY: “Then shall we sit upon the Sofa of Comfort, and drink the Beer of Cheapness whilst we view the Flix of Net!”
May 14th, 2021 at 12:41 am
@xNoob: not to be confused with the Sofa of Reasonable Comfort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFmNXGVrdP0
May 15th, 2021 at 1:24 am
@Tat: Nor the Comfy Chair (plus the Cushions of All the Stuffing Up One End).
May 15th, 2021 at 1:45 am
@BruceAM (#15):
I give you this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zNQA5Xi4Q
Not sure what that has to do with Lord Purple-Tunic and Lady Grab-the-Kids, but hey….
May 22nd, 2021 at 10:27 am
@Hammy (21), that’s where my mind went first as well (though I went to the original version with its Mexican trumpets)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk
May 23rd, 2021 at 2:00 am
@DaveM: this cover definitely needs the Mexican brass version.
April 3rd, 2022 at 3:46 am
OMG – I remember that cover… but I can’t remember what the heck it was about. Nothing, not a thing.
February 11th, 2024 at 5:24 pm
This would work as a terrible ‘we don’t give a damn, so sue us’ foreign cover for Moorcock’s ‘Stormbringer’.
February 11th, 2024 at 10:28 pm
I really don’t know how the woman and kids expect to stay on in that precarious position. Maybe they’re glued to the mighty steed. I hesitate to call it a pegasus, since the head is very chunky.
I agree with @Ryan’s comment that Lord Purple-Tunic’s ride looks alarmed. As well it should be, with all that sword-waving. It’s about 10 seconds from completely rolling the eyes and bucking, at which point descending whistle noise, quiet poof