Feb 07
Click for larger imageRyan Comments: Less successful idea than The Chocolate Fountain.
Published 1986
(Average: 5.75 out of 10)
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Ryan Comments: Less successful idea than The Chocolate Fountain.
Published 1986
(Average: 5.75 out of 10)Loading...
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February 7th, 2022 at 9:41 am
“Behold the glory of my head arm. I’ve got another one. Let me show you that one too.”
[Sighs] “Why do I get all the pervert villains?”
February 7th, 2022 at 9:56 am
“Look, I didn’t know you were both from Test of the Twins!”
February 7th, 2022 at 11:47 am
The wizard toes are totally gratuitous, but nicely drawn.
Now we know the hero has had pretty much the same wardrobe w/ just slight variations in design. This guy is all about functional fashion, just like Mr. Blade.
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February 7th, 2022 at 12:51 pm
I did promise you a wine fountain, and look at you now. Not a good show, no siree.
February 7th, 2022 at 1:34 pm
Notice the hand-shredding dagger that the wizard is wielding. This is a GSS pet peeve of mine. I want to see a rule that artists who depict weapons like this should have to make a real-life version and use it … once. They won’t paint another weapon like that — probably because their drawing hands will be shredded.
February 7th, 2022 at 2:44 pm
He’s a hipster wizard – chocolate fountains are so last decade, now it’s blood fountains that are the “in thing” to impress guests at parties…
February 7th, 2022 at 3:52 pm
‘Yes, waiter, that’s right: Not only is it a thoroughly indifferent cabernet, it’s corked! Prepare to die!’
February 7th, 2022 at 4:17 pm
Fountain of blood, check; lightning-ball, check; carving-knife, check. Now all I need is about 400 miles of intestines and some pepper and my control of the pre-Byzantine black-pudding cartel will be complete.
February 7th, 2022 at 5:25 pm
Your blood fountain debt must be paid…in blood!
Please remit payments to Blood Bath Catering.
February 7th, 2022 at 6:21 pm
@Tat Wood: either blood pudding mass production or a really fancy birthday bash for vampires. (Perhaps the guy on the floor isn’t dead: he’s a vampire and he’s already seriously overindulged.)
February 7th, 2022 at 8:05 pm
So this is how Luis Royo paid the bills! He’s more known for his sensuous, somewhat grumpy, diaphemously-clad women.
February 7th, 2022 at 11:08 pm
“Yes! I admit it. My ridiculous dagger has shredded my hand, but not before it sliced off your nose and lips, Cenotaph Road Boy!”
February 7th, 2022 at 11:52 pm
Geo. W.
Wow. Buy some more letters there, George.
Yrs.etc, GSSxn
How do they keep the blood in the fountain from clotting? Magic, I guess. As others noted, it does look more like wine. Which would be much more popular, if less threatening.
Hero there looks like he’s run face-first into something very hard and it permanently flattened his face. Either that, or he’s part pug.
@fred: The artist seems to have a fancy for appendages — he’s detailed all visible toes and fingers, even the dead guy’s. Showing up all the artists who can’t draw feet.
@Tat: hee!
@BC: are they both going the way of the Black Knight of Python fame?
ISFDB says he was born George Wyatt Proctor. Which still beats Geo. W.
None of the 9(!) books in this series can muster more than a 3.6 on Goodreads.
February 8th, 2022 at 12:58 am
In my younger and less discerning days I did read through Cenotaph Road and at least a fair amount of two other (can’t recall if I finished them) Vardeman series, but of Swords of Ray Millan I have no memory whatsoever.
February 8th, 2022 at 1:15 am
@GSSxN – Yes it’s probably just red wine. You could also order the white wine fountain. Depends on whether it’s a Red Wedding or White Wedding.
February 8th, 2022 at 5:52 am
I’m thinking the proud and gratuitous toe rendering is a simple distraction move, leading us to think he could draw a real foot—if he wanted to. However I don’t see any proof of that. Toes and fingers are easy, but there’s not a “real foot” in sight. I’ll bet he’s no better than your average UAI grad in that department.
February 8th, 2022 at 3:35 pm
In the midst of the party, a piercing scream of horror from the restroom silenced all conversation…
The host smiled and declared: “It’s all right, people! One of the guests was probably surprised by my newly-installed blood-flushing toilet…”
February 8th, 2022 at 6:06 pm
And check out the sequels, “The Spring of Lymph”, “The Babbling Brook of Phlegm”, and “The Waterpark of Digestive Acid.”
February 8th, 2022 at 11:48 pm
@B’man: I’m more of a white wine girl, so I hope it’s a nice day to staaart agaaaain.
April 2nd, 2022 at 1:01 am
To the tune of Big Rock Candy Mountain
Ooooooh, the paperback called Blood Fountain
Found its cover on Good Show Sir
Thanks to Ryan who deemed it cheesy
And agreeably we concur
The magician wildly waves his hands
At the swordsman with bad 80’s hair
And a guy that’s been slew
Fountain full of goo
There was first a Book 1
And then a Book 2
Of the paperback called Blood Fountain
April 2nd, 2022 at 1:39 am
@Emster: toe-tapping!