Oct 27
Click for larger imageCharles Comments: Say hello to my little friend.
Published 1972
(Average: 5.50 out of 10)
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Published 1972
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October 27th, 2021 at 11:51 am
Is this one of those plastic novelties kids put on the top of pencils?
October 27th, 2021 at 1:22 pm
The cover looks like it’s representing Dick Blade as the intermediate form between man and godhood. Seems reasonable if you don’t consider Dick Blade is already a god.
October 27th, 2021 at 2:17 pm
The balls are missing but there’s an extra pair on the left.
October 27th, 2021 at 4:35 pm
One of the more annoying drawbacks of Godhood is the tiny musclemen birthing themselves from your forehead.
October 27th, 2021 at 7:06 pm
I am troubled by those types of noses where you can see all the way up a person’s nostrils.
October 27th, 2021 at 7:30 pm
Preliminary sketch for this cover.
https://fineart.ha.com/itm/works-on-paper/jack-faragasso-american-b-1929-ames-holbrook-deity-paperback-cover-study-1972gouache-on-paper-with-collage-on/a/8030-71288.s
October 27th, 2021 at 9:48 pm
With apologies to anagram master Anonymous:
He disembark too holy
Wars awry by luncheon
(I’m not good enough to do entire blurbs, so thank Holbrook this doesn’t have one.)
October 28th, 2021 at 12:18 am
So it’s ever-smaller naked dudes all the way down? You won’t see this on a Droste box.
Why is Mr. Nostrils (Ames?) projecting this from his face?
@fred, B’man: GSS!
@fred: Good find. Dare I say it’s better than the final version? No giant nostrils to disturb @B. Chiclitz, and more colorful.
@Tor: also GSS! I miss Anon, but this is quite good. It’s even got the “holy/deity” reference in. You deserve a free subscription to GSS After Dark. Or at least Chinese GSS.
October 28th, 2021 at 3:08 am
@Bruce: I suppose it’s slightly less inconvenient than tiny musclemen birthing themselves from the ends of both arms – one of the annoying drawbacks of centaurhood, apparently.
October 28th, 2021 at 7:15 pm
After the Dungeons and Dragons film, Jeremy Irons undoubtedly thought he couldn’t sink any lower. Wrong.
October 28th, 2021 at 10:11 pm
@Tat: Old Jer’ once narrated a live performance of the entirety of “Days of Future Passed”.
It was not half as pretentious and overblown 70’s artsy-fartsy as this cover is.
I am not exaggerating. Plus we didn’t have to see up his nose and there were no naked musclemen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-oblUPUTp8
October 28th, 2021 at 11:36 pm
@GSS ex-noob: this is how I will always think of him; pre-fame and upstaged by the narrator of ‘Trumpton’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egNCSxuHH0w
October 29th, 2021 at 12:48 am
@Verylatetotheparty: that only happens to Centaurs in Surrealtown. He should see mayor Dali about the arms: I believe he has a cream for it. (Side effects may include stilt legs, partial melting, landscape merging, and random insects.)
October 29th, 2021 at 11:24 pm
So what do his followers call themselves?
Holbrookers?
Amelics?
Holbrookestants?
Holbronies?
October 30th, 2021 at 12:55 am
Amesidians?
Judging by this cover, it’s probably something with lots of New Agey terms, and several words long.
@Tat: I feel we’ve all learned too much about Mr. Irons this week.