Oct 31
Good Show Sir comments: The Bloody Sun. That’s what I say. Every time I pass the newsagent.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1975
(Average: 5.89 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: The Bloody Sun. That’s what I say. Every time I pass the newsagent.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1975
(Average: 5.89 out of 10)Loading...
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October 31st, 2022 at 9:11 am
The queue for the Portaloo was getting out of hand.
October 31st, 2022 at 9:19 am
Everyone gazed enviously at the man with the Big Shiny Rock.
October 31st, 2022 at 12:47 pm
I thought it was mandatory to have a sword when you are wearing swashbuckling boots.
October 31st, 2022 at 1:15 pm
Dude, they don’t accept ting at the checkout.
October 31st, 2022 at 2:19 pm
Bloke in the pink shirt, behind Our Hero: well, REALLY!
Bloke in hat next to him (in Kenneth Williams voice): we’ve all got your number, dearie.
Bloke in green next to him: how can he move his arms in that cloak? I’ve been wanting to scratch my nose for hours.
October 31st, 2022 at 3:21 pm
It’s good to see voguing making a comeback!
October 31st, 2022 at 4:14 pm
Of course the sun is bloody. It’s made of plasma.
Like, duh!
October 31st, 2022 at 6:09 pm
Looking at the bling wielder’s get up, that title might be a typo for “The Hoody Sun”…
October 31st, 2022 at 6:55 pm
This book gots lots of covers and Germany knows what sells paperbacks.
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/titlecovers.cgi?5370
October 31st, 2022 at 7:34 pm
@fred: I kinda like “Man desperately begs for bling while friends look on in embarrassment” https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/9/98/DBLTGSNNPJ1971.jpg
October 31st, 2022 at 8:30 pm
Judging by the dates on the stickers, this book is about 5 minutes away from being on the “Free — Please take this crap away” table. And about 10 minutes away from the dumpster.
Why the infinitely long queue? If the sun’s so bloody, why is most of the cover lavender, dearie?
Most people seem to have a variety of colors on, but I had to embiggen to make sure the Black woman next to Pink Shirt Man has a jumpsuit exactly the same color as her skin, and not, as it first appeared, that she was standing in line in nowt but white go-go boots.
@fred: Everyone seems to be wearing swashbuckler (or go-go) boots, and yet there’s not a sword among them. Ting!Man even has the swashbuckler cape. If he had a sword like he’s supposed to, that would at least explain how he got to the head of the line and grabbed the Ting!
@Tor: LOL and GSS!
@fred/Bruce: I see TING! is important on most of them.
This one is the most distinctive (read: awkward):
https://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/19/THBLDSNXCW1978.jpg
and proves, yet again, Feet Are Hard To Draw.
November 1st, 2022 at 4:42 pm
It gets worse – “The Bloody Sun” brings with it
“The Bloody Sunrise”
(and Neil Gaiman, incidentally…)
November 1st, 2022 at 5:29 pm
He’s doing the classic “here are my jewels” pose.
November 1st, 2022 at 9:25 pm
GSS, @Tracy!
November 2nd, 2022 at 3:29 am
@Tracy: So he’s only got the one, then?
Reminds me of a certain WWII ditty.
November 2nd, 2022 at 11:48 pm
@fred – and the Dutch shamelessly marketing to the pimply teen boy demographic… It’s not 70’s SF without a nekkid bum to boost sales! (however a more artistically savvy cover than this stiff mess…)