Sep 14
Click for larger imageEmster Comments: Mary Poppins wasn’t available so the agency sent her less popular sister, Scary Poppins
Published 2021
(Average: 5.75 out of 10)
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Emster Comments: Mary Poppins wasn’t available so the agency sent her less popular sister, Scary Poppins
Published 2021
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September 14th, 2022 at 12:24 pm
Neil Gaiman: It’s not fair! Kim Newman, Christopher Fowler and Clive Barker are my contemporaries and they all have some really shitty book covers, but I’m stuck with Dave McKean painting Athena posters on my books. If I don’t get a really rotten cover for this book, I’m going back to writing comics.
September 14th, 2022 at 3:49 pm
Holy moly, it’s amazing how bad this is compared to the original cover art.
September 14th, 2022 at 3:50 pm
I’m assuming the kid is barefoot because it’s in the story. Passable feet, Mr. McGinnis, you rose to the challenge.
September 14th, 2022 at 4:29 pm
“We can re-use the artwork from when Nicole Kidman remade ‘Bewitched’, because nobody remembers that.”
September 14th, 2022 at 5:23 pm
“OK, I like the generic scary little boy, but it’s a bit bit, you know, generic. How about we put in, say, a scary Mary Poppins but we don’t want to be predictable so make her goofy looking. You know, like she’s from Scooby-Doo. That’ll work I’m sure.”
September 14th, 2022 at 7:21 pm
The hills are alive,
with the sound of voltage.
September 14th, 2022 at 8:15 pm
Well, somehow I liked the soundtrack (and it’s cover) a lot more…
September 14th, 2022 at 10:03 pm
I think that cat is loaded and semiautomatic.
September 14th, 2022 at 11:30 pm
Wow. This is… a concept.
Not a good one, mind you.
Why did someone (not Neil, I hope) think that the appropriate cover for this book was in 50s-60s style Nurse In Peril/Cheesy Horror? Right down to the horrible font.
It would scare away people who’d actually be interested, and people who liked the cover wouldn’t like the book.
I believe Leonard Pinth-Garnell is the only one who could do this justice.
@Bruce: It’s SF. Could also be Laser Cats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sy-V-8ZlT4
(this one has the best SF-related cameos)
@Admin, Tag: ISFDB says this art first came from hell in 2016. And they reprinted it 14 times! Including the final one, in 2021.
September 15th, 2022 at 12:13 am
If you embiggen the cover (when did “embiggen” even become a word?), the kid in the lower right doesn’t look scary.
He looks like he’s raised his eyebrows and rolled his eyes, like so many cover-art models who apparently are thinking “why did I (or my parents) think this would be a good thing for me and my career?”
September 15th, 2022 at 4:00 am
You may also recognize that kittah from here:
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?tag=planets
If he fits, he sits!
@GSS x-n: best episode of Laser Cats, ever
September 15th, 2022 at 6:19 am
@Emster: Except this one seems to have some appendages, judging by the way the kid’s holding it. Or at least it has some kind of trigger mechanism.
Also, I looked at all the Laser Cat sketches (not all the way through) to pick the most completely SF of them all. That was easily it.
Laser Cats haz feetz, at least.
October 7th, 2022 at 11:50 pm
Wanted to read this book, but I just can’t find it on Amazon! I keep searching for “The Neil Ocean Gaiman at the End of the Lane,” but no luck…