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Click for larger imageWendell Comments: Uh … Behind You?
Published 1969
(Average: 5.27 out of 10)
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Wendell Comments: Uh … Behind You?
Published 1969
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January 25th, 2022 at 9:39 am
You know… if watercolors were somehow erased from all existence… would it really be a bad thing?
Think about it, won’t you?
January 25th, 2022 at 10:37 am
“Unga-bunga! Me catch him!”
“Nooo Cavey!!!”
January 25th, 2022 at 1:20 pm
That’s quite the the sturdy spoon he’s holding high. Looks like the Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo is back on the menu.
January 25th, 2022 at 1:34 pm
Peter Saxon is one of the publishing names used by W. Howard Baker. Many GSS worthy covers to admire.
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?188712
January 25th, 2022 at 2:24 pm
There are many things I don’t understand about this cover — the skull hand puppet, the smoking pestle and the disappearance/transformation of the woman’s right arm. Most of all, I don’t understand how her Brazilian butt lift managed to migrate to her hips.
January 25th, 2022 at 3:05 pm
The Monolith screamed, “No, Moon-Watcher! Nooo!”
January 25th, 2022 at 4:12 pm
The Killing Bone, aka the Very Unfunny Bone.
Black magic, sorcery, _and_ occult evil? Sounds rather redundant.
If you look at the large version of the picture, under the skull face it looks like there are very sketchily sketched in shoulders and what might be a hand holding a pestle for that mortar, so presumably that’s a witch or warlock committing black magic/sorcery/occult evil.
I am less clear on why the exotic dancer whose skirt is about to fall off appears to have a pair of caveman arms growing out of the back of her head. [1]
[1] A descendant? https://skullgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Cerebella
January 25th, 2022 at 4:23 pm
This takes the jaunty hip to a whole new level!
January 25th, 2022 at 4:42 pm
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January 25th, 2022 at 4:53 pm
I have no freaking idea what is going on on this cover
January 25th, 2022 at 6:19 pm
@Bibliomancer
Completely depends on whether it’s black magic, sorcery, or occult evil evil going on here.
January 25th, 2022 at 7:00 pm
I am Groot?
January 25th, 2022 at 7:35 pm
Bibliomancer@10: If I had to guess, I’d say she’s killing his bone — if you know what I mean.
January 25th, 2022 at 10:51 pm
I really don’t understand how the belly dancer’s deformed spine* and lack of one arm led to her standing in front of a stone sculpture of two arms and a spoon. I don’t think she does either.
Skullface is either fading into or out of existence (or the mists).
@B’man: Me neither, but based on publishing date, I suspect recreational pharmaceuticals were involved.
*causing a perilously jaunty hip, as @BC said
January 26th, 2022 at 1:11 am
@Tor Mented: her right arm is bent backwards and mostly covered by her shawl: it appears to end in Spoon Arms’ armpit.
(People are clicking on these covers to get the large version, right? Or is trying to get a better look now considered uncool? Nobody tells me these things.)
January 26th, 2022 at 2:07 am
@Bruce – I have to seize my courage with both hands prior to embiggening the images. Risk v reward!
January 26th, 2022 at 2:49 am
@Ryan: fair enough.
January 26th, 2022 at 3:20 am
I embiggen also, trying to figure out what’s going on.
It doesn’t always help.
Like, this one I can see @Bruce’s point of her arm going that way, or maybe it’s just fallen into a void.
And if we can’t figure out what the deal is even when enlarged, you know the people looking at these on the shelf or spinner rack wouldn’t have either.
January 26th, 2022 at 2:24 pm
@Bruce: Of course I looked at the larger version. Boobs are involved.
That still didn’t clear up what is going on with her arm. Does it end there, or does it become Spoon Arm?
January 28th, 2022 at 12:11 am
@Tor: the way this is drawn, there’s a chance those actually ARE her arms wielding the spoon! Some sort of horrible mutation/operation.
March 31st, 2022 at 4:48 am
Okay… from above comments I see I’m not the only weirdo artsy who doesn’t get it either…