Apr 27
Click for larger imageGood Show Sir Comments: It’s Baen. I suppose the gorilla monster is the hero.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1988
(Average: 5.00 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: It’s Baen. I suppose the gorilla monster is the hero.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1988
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April 27th, 2022 at 9:19 am
This is what happens when you don’t know “The Piano’s On My Foot”.
April 27th, 2022 at 9:22 am
It’s a video game, and the giant baboon is the boss of landing number 17.
April 27th, 2022 at 11:46 am
I think I played that. Dragoons vs Baboons wasn’t it?
April 27th, 2022 at 12:29 pm
The calf armor seems a bit useless in fighting a wereape.
April 27th, 2022 at 3:56 pm
The Wonder Stuff were spot-on: I used to get like the cover-star of this book when it happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOxtDTyc3Qw
(@THX: Shhhhh! The seppos don’t know that this is what I think about when they discuss ‘The Tea Party’.)
April 27th, 2022 at 4:07 pm
Does the violent wereape also sport a tail? Seems like overkill.
April 27th, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Baboons are Old World Monkeys, so a wereboon would have a tail. Just be glad it’s facing this way so we don’t so it’s were-ischial callosities.
April 27th, 2022 at 8:23 pm
As for the artwork, it really looks like the artist copied the poses from several Frazetta covers. Bodies are piling up just like they tend to do around Conan, though he’d have a lot more of them.
I guess this make him Conab the Baboonian.
April 28th, 2022 at 12:38 am
How is this rated so low?
Once I saw the title, I didn’t even need the rest of it to load up before knowing the publisher.
There’s a notable lack of stairways (and/or forever) here.
With the shading, it’s impossible to tell if the critter’s appendage is a tail, or, erm… I’m just saying, by definition apes don’t have tails.
So, due to the facial appearance, I think we’re agreed this is a Giant Were-Baboon. Because if that’s a monkey, well. Even more horrifying than the thought of Giant Baboon Butt Colors.
@Bruce: So the author/artist thought “Hey! These Kids Today love the Donkey Kong, let’s have a book ‘inspired’ by it!”
@Ryan: you truly found some gems.
April 28th, 2022 at 2:06 am
With apologies to Led Zeppelin, sort of…
It’s a Baen book for sure, tho it’s blue not orange bold
With the tile of “Stairway to Forever”
Those guys in warrior clothes are all in their death throes
Angry baboon, yet minimal gore?
Big baboo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oon
on a book called “Stairway to Forever”
Ryan answered the call, knew the cover’d cause a stir
Puns and sarcastic response he was scheming
What you see on this book, some questionable things
But most of all, there’s that oversized gibbon
Oh yeah yeah yeah
Mutant ape on the cover…
April 28th, 2022 at 2:23 am
@Emster (prev.):
Hammy points to sign on wall that reads “No Stairway”.
Emster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1KqbDdmuE
April 28th, 2022 at 2:46 am
@Hammy:
Emster looking perplexed at imaginary audience in living room, “No Stairway – denied!”
Party on, Hammy!
April 28th, 2022 at 8:29 am
The way that Were-Boon is yelling, it’s pretty clear he also came from “The Hoarseclans.”
April 28th, 2022 at 11:47 pm
@Emster: holds up lighter
(Either that, or the DJ needs to make a run to the gents’ or have a smoke break; that’s what they put on.)
April 29th, 2022 at 12:10 am
I can’t help thinking The Butthole Surfers’ album Hairway to Steven would be an appropriate accompaniment.
April 29th, 2022 at 9:07 pm
still singing along with @Emster
Ooooo, and it makes you wonnnnder…
record scratch noise
@THX: Startlingly perfect. Is the were-boon called Steve, then?
April 30th, 2022 at 9:39 pm
The cover artist Ken Kelly, whose motto must be “Anatomy is for losers! I’ll draw limbs any way I want, nyah nyah!”
April 30th, 2022 at 10:43 pm
The fingers of the men are very odd. Ken’s rebellion against normal appendages extends to them.