Apr 04
Fission Chips comments: Is this photosphopped or did Piers and two mates stick their heads through a plywood cutout at a county fair?
Published 1986
Fission Chips comments: Is this photosphopped or did Piers and two mates stick their heads through a plywood cutout at a county fair?
Published 1986
April 4th, 2023 at 2:40 pm
‘Get your stinking vines off me, you damned, dirty grape!’
April 4th, 2023 at 2:59 pm
Are we having fungus yet?
April 4th, 2023 at 3:48 pm
Now that’s what immediate comes to mind of when I think of Piers Anthony: fungi!
(The guy in back looks dissatisfied. He’s probably wondering where the underage girls are at.)
April 4th, 2023 at 3:53 pm
Yesterday I made a crack about Cold War Steve; today this comes up. Talk about Fan Service.
Peter Beardsley, Gareth Southgate and, er, Jim Belushi in a jungle, wearing space-suits. Not as on-the-nose as his usual mash-ups.
April 4th, 2023 at 3:58 pm
They’re upset because they expected there to be boobies.
April 4th, 2023 at 4:10 pm
I didn’t know Roger Dean did book covers between Yes albums.
This one might be a rejected sleeve for the single “Starship Trooper”.
April 4th, 2023 at 4:31 pm
I am indeed dazzled by this cover, but not by it’s inventiveness I can assure you.
I’m also half-convinced that the three heads were stolen from the promotional material for some now long forgotten British sitcom.
April 4th, 2023 at 4:44 pm
I pity the two guys who had to journey to this distant planet while stuck inside a small spacecraft with Kevin Spacey.
April 4th, 2023 at 5:09 pm
Wait, they’re doing another Ghostbusters reboot – for VEGANS?
April 4th, 2023 at 6:46 pm
Is the light illuminating the three faces coming from a completely different source and frequency of that shining upon the rest of the illustration?
April 4th, 2023 at 8:25 pm
“Behind you, more giant flying bugs. Guys, where’s your rifles?”.
April 4th, 2023 at 8:28 pm
“Behind you, more giant flying bugs. Guys, where’s your rifles?”.
April 4th, 2023 at 8:37 pm
@Ryan: I think they’ve got a portable telly under that algal frond and they’re watching ‘Match of the Day’ – except Jim Belushi who, being American, is illuminated by the ting from his gun.
April 5th, 2023 at 12:58 am
If the power goes out, that book cover will light up the room – yow – giving Baen a run for their money. (I do rather like bright fuchsia tho – woo!)
April 5th, 2023 at 5:31 am
Missed a trick and an even worse pun by not calling it “Antherology”.
@Fission Chips: This being from the 80s, someone actually had to make a conscious effort to paint them all that way, or at least cut and paste the heads.
@Bruce: So is Piers the chap in the back, or is he the dodgier-looking one down left?
@Tor: Ah, that’s not Piers then. Kev would be looking for the underage boys.
@Ryan: Either Kev or Jim would be illuminated by the only weapon they seem to have on a strange planet, guy in back has his very own spotlight, and t’other guy has jaundice or a spray tan.
April 5th, 2023 at 5:22 pm
Howard Jones found his long-awaited comeback to be a crushing disappointment.
April 5th, 2023 at 8:13 pm
♪♪
And if you threw that book away,
things can only get better.
♪♪
April 10th, 2023 at 3:22 am
I don’t know about y’all, but the way those three guys are posed, they remind me of a castle with human heads instead of turrets.