Jul 26

Good Show Sir comments: David B. Mattingly’s Giacometti period.
Published 1983

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July 26th, 2023 at 8:03 pm
“Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Marti Pellow but singing a selection from ‘In Utero’.”
July 26th, 2023 at 8:09 pm
He must be wearing the thinnest sandals in the galaxy.
July 26th, 2023 at 9:45 pm
So like Dick Blade then, but somehow less realistic.
July 26th, 2023 at 10:26 pm
The infection of the necrotising bacterium Cantdrawfeetitus butbigtitsnoprobsicum has spread right up both legs and appears to have infected the winged woman as well; we’ll have to amputate.
July 26th, 2023 at 11:25 pm
At first glance it appears something *giacomettiesque* has slipped out of that loincloth, but then you realize it’s just one of two badly drawn inner thigh ligaments, thank goodness.
July 27th, 2023 at 2:58 am
Glad I put my tea down before I read @BC’s comments… and now I can’t unsee it….
July 27th, 2023 at 4:08 am
Wow, I’ve heard of weird proportions, but aren’t his legs awfully long for someone with that short a torso? I mean, his torso and head combined are only 2/3rds as tall as his legs are long.
Who was the model, Bill Walton?
July 27th, 2023 at 4:48 am
He has to flex every muscle in his body to keep from being blown away by the wind.
July 27th, 2023 at 11:59 am
“Fear not! For I will defeat the highly advanced alien technology with my pointy stick.”
July 27th, 2023 at 1:03 pm
He has a pair of trained, sentient attack commas to back him up.
He calls them Oxford and Chicago.
July 27th, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Swen Nater retired from the LA Lakers to form an intergalactic heavy metal band singing space ballads and ZZ Top covers such as “He/She/It’s Got Legs”.
July 28th, 2023 at 10:29 pm
@Tor: One of the commas is either backwards or an apostrophe. But I can’t come up with a good nickname for an apostrophe, so GSS!
July 28th, 2023 at 11:00 pm
He would defend the giant’s testicles to the death.
(To be fair to the artist, this guy is supposed to have grown up in a really low gravity environment, so he’s naturally sort of stretched out, but I don’t think those feet can be excused on environmental grounds.)
July 29th, 2023 at 11:14 pm
@Bruce: Still doesn’t explain why his head and neck are the proportions of a Terran. Was he born on Planet Pinhead?
Maybe he’s leaning backwards… but that still wouldn’t explain the feet. How does he keep all that height balanced on those tiny feet?
Is it just me, or are those abs kind of weird?
July 30th, 2023 at 3:40 am
@GSSxN ( #12). Two equivalent names for apostrophes might be “Deppen” and “Greengrocer”
July 30th, 2023 at 3:39 pm
@GSSxn (12)—
The crux of the biscuit
is the apostrophe.
—Frank Zappa
July 30th, 2023 at 10:44 pm
@JJ, BC: OK, I’m gonna be a mother of invention and dub them “Oxford” and “Single Quote”.
, ‘
They have siblings named Chicago and Grocer. And the conjoined twins Double Quote.
August 11th, 2023 at 8:18 pm
Isn’t this cover already on page 15?
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=18052
(Where it scored almost twice what it did here. Weird that…)