Feb 09
Good Show Sir Comments: Dr. Zoidberg!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1949
(Average: 7.56 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Dr. Zoidberg!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1949
(Average: 7.56 out of 10)Loading...
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February 9th, 2023 at 2:05 pm
One of the first MODOKs, this looks like a Mother-in-law Designed Only for Kvetching. She seems to be driving her son-in-law postal.
February 9th, 2023 at 2:29 pm
We know who’d play the guy top right in the film version – step forward Johnny Vyvyan. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0904595/
(Arrogant Americans telling us what someone is ‘known for’ was just as annoying when ‘Guitar Hero’ tried to claim that ‘Cum On, Feel the Noize’ was “made famous” by some yanks nobody’s heard of: Johnny was the wrinkled little man in ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’ first and foremost.)
February 9th, 2023 at 4:09 pm
Actually, I like this one. It’s got retro style in spades, and those bold, jaunty characters…
February 9th, 2023 at 4:15 pm
Grandma looks grumpy, and so does Dr. Zoidberg.
Also, I can’t understand the scale here. Are Grandma and Dr. Zoidberg looming over a table of infinite length and playing with toy spaceships?
February 9th, 2023 at 5:09 pm
This is a wonderful cover compared to the previous six!
February 9th, 2023 at 5:26 pm
It’s a trap!!! (in Zoidberg’s voice)
…i am disappointed that Zoidberg is not recognized by auto correct
February 9th, 2023 at 8:27 pm
I don’t know if anyone is grumpy, or if they’re both just showing the sagging effects of multiple g-forces.
February 9th, 2023 at 10:12 pm
Today on Planets of Adventure, we learn about the wonders of perspective with Professor Scrotum, while Zoidbergasaurus learns about proper model rocket safety! (Todays’ phrases are “vanishing point” and “highly flammable.”)
All kidding aside, I’d agree it’s a perfectly cromulent pulp SF sort of cover.
February 10th, 2023 at 12:25 am
In this arena, today’s cover offering is a perfect 10 – cheesy, campy, nostalgic. Wouldn’t matter if the stories are good or not, I’d want that one on by bookshelf (or piled beside the sofa with the other stuff I have yet to read…)
February 10th, 2023 at 4:06 am
It took me a while to even think about typing, or at minimum reading everyone else, because I was suffering from vertigo due to the weird perspectives. What is the ever-receding plane with spheres?
What even is the thing we’re calling Zoidberg? Is grumpy grandparent annoyed with Dr. Z’s babbling on and on, or the methods of surgery?
February 10th, 2023 at 4:41 am
Yeah, I definitely don’t hate it. In fact, it almost makes me nostalgic for a time when SF books were written by people with names like Basil.
February 10th, 2023 at 3:09 pm
Also people who worked in a zipper factor.
https://basilewells.tripod.com/biograph.html
Page w/ pulp art from Wells stories and front cover art from publications that contains a Wells story. Two EMSH’s
https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/the-other-other-mr-wells-basil-wells/
February 10th, 2023 at 10:43 pm
@fred: After reading that, I think Basil definitely deserved better artwork than this! Sounds like a solid mid-range space opera writer. Long career, long life, hard-working, family man, pillar of the community. All that and zippers too.