Nov 15
Good Show Sir comments: Loincloth fail
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1974
(Average: 6.13 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: Loincloth fail
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1974
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November 15th, 2022 at 12:18 pm
The one-worm is lucky in two respects –
1: It doesn’t have fangs.
2: Trousers have yet to be invented on this planet.
#NotSoSubtle
November 15th, 2022 at 12:49 pm
Where is Vallejo when he is needed most.
November 15th, 2022 at 3:24 pm
@fred
From the publication date, this was probably published back when Boris was still working out how to do Frazetta’s art style.
November 15th, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Umm, what is the blue guy doing to that fellow?
This cover is a slight camera angle away from needing a space sheep.
November 15th, 2022 at 4:19 pm
What I like about this cover is that all the featured participants, no matter what they are doing, are doing it with a maximum of effort and style, be it riding and stabbing, leaping, circumcising, or recoiling.
November 15th, 2022 at 4:44 pm
Green starlight, red leaves, blue people: how does photosynthesis happen? Why can we see colours like that?
November 15th, 2022 at 8:03 pm
All that drama, and there weren’t even any eggs in the nest.
(Looks to me like they’re fighting in a giant bird’s nest).
November 16th, 2022 at 12:32 am
Unfortunately, this cover suffers from “a little too much going on here”… Could have had similar effect without the s&m couple to the right. Zoom in on Tiny Tarzan and Trouserless Snake Rider (okay, slippery slope, but @Frances started it…) and that would have been more than enough to get me to buy it…
@Bruce – maybe Tied Up Guy ate all the eggs without sharin’ and everyone’s justifiably miffed
November 16th, 2022 at 12:47 am
If the star’s green (presumably that’s it in the background), why is everything appearing as though it’s under white light? (Save perhaps the worm and the blue guy)? It’s not like bad art hasn’t been monochrome green before and since. I see @Tat agrees.
@FB: Ooh, Matron!
@Ryan: Planet of the Overactive Muscles of the Overacting. Students of Master Thespian? ACTING!
@Bruce: Perhaps it’s the Lair of the White Worm?
I would also tag this “Tar-Sham”.
November 16th, 2022 at 1:21 pm
Actually, because of the way the Planck spectrum (black-body radiation curve) works, there can’t be a green star. Here’s a great video explaining why:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXOYbzQ4jDA
Subscription to Cool Worlds videos highly recommended.
November 16th, 2022 at 3:30 pm
This is horrible. Denying green energy? Ban him. BAN HIM!
Uhh … oh, that’s not what was meant? Well, never mind.
November 16th, 2022 at 3:31 pm
@NomadUK
So Lin Carter was talking shite about the green star?
November 16th, 2022 at 4:07 pm
But if the sun’s shining and the people are coated with Grenium, the infra-green rays will make everyone invisible.
It must be true – Terry Nation said so on the back of an ice-lolly wrapper. https://www.frankbellamy.co.uk/2008/07/frank-bellamy-licks-daleks-into-shape.html
November 16th, 2022 at 4:48 pm
Green has already jumped onto the GSS #NotSoSubtle bandwagon and issues a challenge to the Green Star interloper.
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=3503
November 16th, 2022 at 5:51 pm
MB@12: I think he just made it all up.
November 16th, 2022 at 5:55 pm
This series is set on a world of giant trees with “twigs as broad as six-lane highways.” I am guessing that in this book, the characters fall down the trees to the actual ground where fell beasts, like the white grub-thing, roam, and they fighting amidst fallen dried leaves and twigs.
As for the Green Star — they never actually see the sun. The trees are too high and there are too many leaves. So it’s speculation whether it’s actually green or not. As this is a world of giant trees, they have to fly on winged beasts to get around.
Loincloth-losing lad is the main character. Blue guy, I’m guessing, is of a native race called the Amphachand, who resembled angels. Why I remember all that, I don’t know. Why the Amphachand is disembowling the human I don’t remember either.
The series is cringy but very readable in a Jack Vance style.
November 16th, 2022 at 11:55 pm
@GSS ex-noob: maybe the White Worm ate the eggs.
@Tracy: angels are bald and blue? Perhaps the artist was confusing them with genies.
November 17th, 2022 at 2:33 am
That’s it – from now on I want @Tracy to provide a synopsis before I get too excited because I ALWAYS pick books by their cover, aaaaand it hasn’t always gone well… nope, it has not. This cover is kinda like The Littles on Acid – tiny people in a jungle… what could go wrong? Sounds like I dodged the bullet this time…
November 18th, 2022 at 2:52 am
This seems to be the only edition ever, which… I guess people judged it by its cover?
I took a ton (two van loads and a hatchback worth) to the used book store this week.
I managed not to come home with any new books, but I did snap some photos, which I will scare you with later.
Mercedes Lackey *hardbacks* from GSS’ “favorite” publisher. Shudder.
December 3rd, 2022 at 5:07 pm
I’m almost too embarrassed to ask… is a “one-eyed worm” a metaphor for something?
December 5th, 2022 at 1:37 am
@A. R. Yngve(prev.):
It is now! 😉