May 10
Click for larger imageMax Bathroom Comments: Even the killer bug thinks that’s a daft hairdo.
Published 1987
(Average: 8.25 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom Comments: Even the killer bug thinks that’s a daft hairdo.
Published 1987
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May 10th, 2022 at 9:33 am
These novelty photo frames are getting ridiculous.
May 10th, 2022 at 11:50 am
Who doesn’t love a good sexual cannibalism book.
May 10th, 2022 at 12:29 pm
@fred
We’ve all lost our head over a woman one time or another, haven’t we?
May 10th, 2022 at 1:54 pm
I guess the mantis’ left eye is the dominant one.
May 10th, 2022 at 3:25 pm
Mantis: “I’m sensing some red flags about my new girlfriend.”
May 10th, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Um, does that mantis have a pupil in its compound eye? I mean, he has a woman with a bad haircut in the other eye, so I guess that is a relatively minor issue, but still might want to get that looked at.
May 10th, 2022 at 8:48 pm
A tragic tale of an upstanding young giant insect gone wrong.
(Presuming the author went the boring route and this is about a woman who seduces and decapitates men, wouldn’t it make more sense to have the bug showing up in her eye, rather than the other way around? But I suppose that sort of thinking is one of the things preventing me from making the big bucks as a genre fiction cover illustrator).
May 10th, 2022 at 10:03 pm
@drlemaster: That is a pseudopupil.
I know because that was my nickname in many school courses.
May 10th, 2022 at 11:22 pm
Maybe women with 80s hair are the currency where they are and this mantis is their equivalent of Daffy Duck seeing a business opportunity.
May 11th, 2022 at 1:08 am
Are we even 100% sure that’s a woman?
May 11th, 2022 at 1:18 am
@Tor Mented: don’t be hard on yourself. After all, through hard work and dedication you eventually became a quasigraduate.
May 11th, 2022 at 1:57 am
@Bruce: And still quasi after all these years.
May 11th, 2022 at 2:29 am
Back cover. My money is on male.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mantis-by-K-W-Jeter-1987-Trade-Paperback-/265670663492?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c1#viTabs_0
May 11th, 2022 at 2:35 am
Apparently Mr. Jeter coined term ‘Steampunk’, and he has more worthy covers.
https://trashmenace.blogspot.com/2018/02/kw-jeter.html
May 11th, 2022 at 3:17 am
Cover was especially confusing, checked out a review… man preying on women (but perhaps only in his own mind a la Fight Club). Typically female mantis eats the male mantis after mating, so mantis as his “evil spirit animal” doesn’t quite fly. Ho hum.
Regardless, @Max Bathroom, excellent find as far as horrid covers go.
May 11th, 2022 at 4:14 am
@fred: oh, _that_ Jeter. I’m familiar with his steampunk and SF work, not his horror.
May 11th, 2022 at 12:33 pm
@Bruce A Munro
Many think that he’s a better horror writer than a steampunk or SF one. Regardless of the godawful cover, Mantis is a clever and slickly written thriller rather than an out and out horror story, though.
May 12th, 2022 at 4:30 am
This cover bugs me for some reason.
May 12th, 2022 at 10:29 am
Malcolm McLaren spots Annabella Lwin in that launderette.
May 12th, 2022 at 12:30 pm
@THX 1139
GSS!
May 12th, 2022 at 9:18 pm
David Attenborough’s least successful documentary: “Mantis Anarchy in the UK”.
“And here, at the Roxy Club in Covent Garden, a colony of praying mantises seek out the new Punk scene, lured by the chords that to them are reminiscent of mating calls…”
May 13th, 2022 at 12:26 am
Not to be confused with the Carl Lumbly TV series, which made more sense.