Not only is this cover bad in a non-good way if Wikipedia is to be believed it has fuck all to do with the story. Ben here is supposed to be an engineer. Now in my uni days I knew a fair few engineering students and they could be pretty wild. But there wildness was mainly expressed in alcohol consumption, poor personal hygiene, and determinedly not doing the washing-up. None dressed as Conan. (Though to be fair, I suspect they did cause a fair bit of lamentation of women but that would mainly have to do with the aforementioned personal habits.)
@BC: I don’t think anyone could possibly explain, including the artist.
@Ryan: Galaxy of the Stretch Armstrongs!
@B’man: I couldn’t agree more.
@fred: That would be overegging it. I’d agree it could use cat people (chasing and eating the butterflies), two dissimilar moons, and possibly the volcano erupting from the sea, which is why the tiny spaceships, the butterflies, and the bot are all fleeing.
Eventually, the neighbors started complaining about him bringing so many bits of the Galaxy to Earth, especially the man-eating bean bag chairs and the public robosexuality.
@Bruce: My brain went “Man-eating bean bag chairs! I’ve seen that!” but then another part of my brain went’ “No, those were man-eating inflatable chairs.” (we still miss you, Roger Delgado)
August 10th, 2022 at 1:04 pm
Not only is this cover bad in a non-good way if Wikipedia is to be believed it has fuck all to do with the story. Ben here is supposed to be an engineer. Now in my uni days I knew a fair few engineering students and they could be pretty wild. But there wildness was mainly expressed in alcohol consumption, poor personal hygiene, and determinedly not doing the washing-up. None dressed as Conan. (Though to be fair, I suspect they did cause a fair bit of lamentation of women but that would mainly have to do with the aforementioned personal habits.)
August 10th, 2022 at 2:30 pm
I guess it’s quite a stretch, then.
August 10th, 2022 at 3:00 pm
‘Begone, foul Lepidopterous fiends, you shall have neither my Saporiti easy-chairs nor me!’
August 10th, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Needs a volcano, an ancient Romanish city, cat people, a couple of moons, unicorn centaurs, and a hot chick on a motorcycle.
August 10th, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Anatomical issues of Liefeldian proportions…
August 10th, 2022 at 5:05 pm
So he’s starving to death on an alien planet, then?
That kind of makes sense.
August 10th, 2022 at 5:56 pm
Let me help you out, Tag. I believe that’s a
“flying-metal-devil’s-dumplings-teat-shields-jazz-hands-damsel”
August 10th, 2022 at 6:28 pm
This poor guy clearly spent time being tortured on a Medieval rack.
August 10th, 2022 at 7:26 pm
The cover seems to imply that the means that Ben Pertin used to travel the galaxy without ever leaving Earth was to be incredibly elongated.
That way he kept at least one foot on base, while his head and shoulders roamed the universe like some sort of Galactic String Bean Being?
August 10th, 2022 at 8:38 pm
Anyone care to explain what’s going on with her feet?
August 10th, 2022 at 11:40 pm
I’m glad El Greco got over his sci-fi page and went back to icons.
August 10th, 2022 at 11:41 pm
@BC: I don’t think anyone could possibly explain, including the artist.
@Ryan: Galaxy of the Stretch Armstrongs!
@B’man: I couldn’t agree more.
@fred: That would be overegging it. I’d agree it could use cat people (chasing and eating the butterflies), two dissimilar moons, and possibly the volcano erupting from the sea, which is why the tiny spaceships, the butterflies, and the bot are all fleeing.
August 11th, 2022 at 12:53 am
Eventually, the neighbors started complaining about him bringing so many bits of the Galaxy to Earth, especially the man-eating bean bag chairs and the public robosexuality.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:13 am
@Bruce: My brain went “Man-eating bean bag chairs! I’ve seen that!” but then another part of my brain went’ “No, those were man-eating inflatable chairs.” (we still miss you, Roger Delgado)
August 12th, 2022 at 2:13 pm
@ex-Noob: Man-eating bean bags? Fast-forward to the end of Episode Two of ‘The Claws of Axos’.
(The chairs I was talking about before can be seen in ‘The Invasion of Time’, but n sky-blue).
August 12th, 2022 at 11:25 pm
@Tat: It’s been so long since I watched Classic Who I’d forgotten about the beanbags!
Never mind Daleks and Sontarans, the Doctor seems to have spent much of the 70s fighting amorphous furniture.
Rather later, I occasionally hung out at cons with John Levene. Charming chap.
August 12th, 2022 at 11:56 pm
If the universe is infinite, IS there a farthest star/
January 13th, 2023 at 10:37 pm
Cover by Rob Leifeld.