May 08
Good Show Sir comments: Barbarella’s got the boys in a spin!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1983
(Average: 4.67 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir comments: Barbarella’s got the boys in a spin!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1983
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May 8th, 2023 at 12:43 pm
If you think Madonna’s demanding of her onstage dancers, you should see what Lourdes will be having them do in another decade or two…
May 8th, 2023 at 1:39 pm
When the title font/color don’t get with the program, the cover is worse. It’s like Ace was going to recycle this cover for an entire run of Norton books.
May 8th, 2023 at 2:43 pm
The givers of pain and delight!
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May 8th, 2023 at 2:54 pm
@fred, it’s funny you say that – I swear I’ve seen her before on a different cover.
May 8th, 2023 at 3:35 pm
A flower in her right hand but what’s she holding in her left? Looks like a packet of Chesterfields to me.
Oh, you weren’t looking at her hands.
May 8th, 2023 at 5:17 pm
I’ve heard of women twisting men around their little fingers but in this case I’m not even sure the artist knows how to draw little fingers.
May 8th, 2023 at 5:57 pm
By Grabthar’s Hammer, ‘Zarsthor’s Bane’ is bleeding difficult to pronounce.
May 8th, 2023 at 6:24 pm
@Nomad UK
I’m thinking that Zrasthor is one of the lads in armour doing zero g synchro swimming and the other one might be his bane…
May 8th, 2023 at 6:56 pm
I can’t stop looking at the golf spikes the twirler on the right is wearing, and wondering if he is twirling at such a high rate of speed that his scabbard have begun to bend, and if he and his twirly buddy are reaching such speeds as to become translucent.
May 8th, 2023 at 8:24 pm
“This week on Wheel of Fetishes…”
May 8th, 2023 at 9:13 pm
Ban hores starz.
May 9th, 2023 at 3:39 am
So the guys are going in circles, but have transparent parts around Barb’s legs? (not feet obviously, this is GSS). Is it all down to magic, or does her Ting! flower merely project images and she wanted to catch this week’s episode of “Zero-G Interpretive Dance”?
GSS to Max and fred. fred’s comment makes me miss @Anon’s epic anagrams.
May 10th, 2023 at 2:34 am
@fred: going forward, it shall be known as the Andre Norton font…
@Ryan: I guess the bendy scabbard makes sense? I’d like to know if the original sketch was bendy or if it just fit better on the cover.
@GSS x-n: Mr. Pound gets points for giving everyone appendages below the knee. A year ago I wouldn’t have noticed, and now I’m fascinated by rampant SF footlessness.
May 11th, 2023 at 2:24 am
@Emster: If his sword’s equally bendy, then the scabbard makes more sense than a lot of this cover.
This was indeed her font for this Ace series. The cover of this one, new, is even pinker.
I haven’t read it, but it doesn’t look like the sort of thing usually seen on the Witch World. The price tag covers up the excited blurb saying “The Only Illustrated Witch World Novel!” in small caps.
Still, 3 people, 6 feet, that’s much more than most here can do.
But who or what is Zarsthor, other than Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Art?
Added: I was going to look this up on ISFDB, but that seems to have gone poof?!
May 11th, 2023 at 3:04 am
@GSS x-n: if Zarsthor is anything like Zardoz, there’s no room on the cover for a giant floating head with those two other floatie guys taking up all that space.
May 12th, 2023 at 12:34 am
@Emster: Oh, hey, maybe this is from Zarsthor’s POV. His Bane is when what he wants to watch is pre-empted for “Zero-G Interpretive Dance”.
May 12th, 2023 at 5:26 pm
Must not type “circle j***s”… must not type “circle j***s…”
D’oh!!
May 12th, 2023 at 10:14 pm
@ARY: It’s not like their hands are anywhere near, uhm, those areas… unless they both have golf cleat fetishes. Which, you know, whatever.
Or maybe Zarthor and/or Barb have that kink.