Now, that’s clearly a stuffed and mounted horse that someone has stuck a solid fuel booster up the end of. [1] Further indignity has been added by gluing a horn to its head.
[1] What do you mean, it’s still alive? That’s too horrible to even contemplate.
That IS perfectly Heinlein. On purpose or accidentally, no one knows, but GSS to M. Lavardet.
Slim Pickens *wishes* he’d looked this cool.
I’m hoping that’s an oxygen supply on his face and not a presage of another Alien movie. Why doesn’t his mighty steed have one? Is it robotic? Is it just a Unicorn! front end over an arrangement of rockets, as @Bruce thought?
@THX: yeah, if this wasn’t based on a photo of Roy and Trigger, I’ll eat mon chapeau. Down to the R on the stirrup.
@Tor: perhaps ‘Mericn unicorns don’t have them. Particularly Western ones. Probably considered too sissified.
@GSSxn—Maybe the hose is there to hide his nostrils. I like this cover. The splash of pink from Roy’s shirt adds a nice color balance. Points off for the missing soul patch, I guess.
October 28th, 2021 at 9:11 am
Roy Rogers has been triggered.
October 28th, 2021 at 12:26 pm
Valentine MIchael Smith really groks Halloween.
October 28th, 2021 at 12:50 pm
The attempt to make a live action Bravestar series was far less popular than the later animated version.
October 28th, 2021 at 2:17 pm
“Well, obviously it looks a lot less silly in French.”
October 28th, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Who patched up the unicorn-horse with duct tape?
October 28th, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Rocket propelled Pegasus… with implants.
October 28th, 2021 at 2:51 pm
I see your Presses Pocket ‘Heinlein’ and raise you a J’ai Lu ‘les enfants de Mathusalem’.
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October 28th, 2021 at 4:30 pm
@THX – GSS!
October 28th, 2021 at 4:48 pm
@Arthur Dent: or a certain type of Heinlein fan.
Now, that’s clearly a stuffed and mounted horse that someone has stuck a solid fuel booster up the end of. [1] Further indignity has been added by gluing a horn to its head.
[1] What do you mean, it’s still alive? That’s too horrible to even contemplate.
October 28th, 2021 at 5:33 pm
At least the unicorn’s got its horn in the right place. Any lower and the picture would have looked very silly.
October 28th, 2021 at 8:38 pm
The unicorn does not have a soul patch. I thought we went over this.
All those rockets and still just one horsepower.
October 28th, 2021 at 10:00 pm
That IS perfectly Heinlein. On purpose or accidentally, no one knows, but GSS to M. Lavardet.
Slim Pickens *wishes* he’d looked this cool.
I’m hoping that’s an oxygen supply on his face and not a presage of another Alien movie. Why doesn’t his mighty steed have one? Is it robotic? Is it just a Unicorn! front end over an arrangement of rockets, as @Bruce thought?
@THX: yeah, if this wasn’t based on a photo of Roy and Trigger, I’ll eat mon chapeau. Down to the R on the stirrup.
@Tor: perhaps ‘Mericn unicorns don’t have them. Particularly Western ones. Probably considered too sissified.
I gave this cover 10/10 and a mighty Yee-HAW!
October 29th, 2021 at 3:57 am
@GSSxn—Maybe the hose is there to hide his nostrils. I like this cover. The splash of pink from Roy’s shirt adds a nice color balance. Points off for the missing soul patch, I guess.
October 29th, 2021 at 7:01 pm
can’t tell if breathing apparatus, or actively being bit in the eye by a snake… ?
October 29th, 2021 at 11:22 pm
French humor is so… je ne sais pas.
October 30th, 2021 at 12:59 am
@BC: to try (fruitlessly) to hide the copying of the model? He’s even got Roy’s eyes, ffs.
I like that Roy’s wearing a seatbelt — he always wanted to be a good role model.
@ARY: oui, vraiment.