Sep 06
Good Show Sir Comments: Determine your destiny! Your destiny is read some shitty fantasy.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1987
(Average: 6.33 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Determine your destiny! Your destiny is read some shitty fantasy.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1987
(Average: 6.33 out of 10)Loading...
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September 6th, 2023 at 10:22 am
Write Your Own Adventure extends to making your own cover from old Forbidden Planet carrier bags.
Nice to see Shrek before he was famous, though.
September 6th, 2023 at 10:44 am
Mind what you’re doing with that staff. You’ve just annihilated the discounted price sticker.
September 6th, 2023 at 12:25 pm
Mr. Toad’s got a new mania. Cover bombing Richard Corben.
September 6th, 2023 at 12:34 pm
If choose your own adventure type books and RPG sharecrop novels are acceptable, I have some nerd game type stuff to hand with pretty rancid covers myself. Is that sort of thing no longer considered a bridge too far?
September 6th, 2023 at 1:54 pm
@Steve
That’s not a staff that’s a mop. Someone neglected to explain to badly-drawn wizard the correct procedures for dealing with volatile liquids.
September 6th, 2023 at 3:48 pm
If you want to enthuse kids to buy your book, putting ‘Grey’ in the title probably isn’t the way to go. Next up is ‘Graham, The Beige Warrior.’
September 6th, 2023 at 5:05 pm
Surely this cover is a composite of different illustrators’ work, right? The various creatures certainly aren’t sharing the same light sources or atmospheric conditions at very least.
September 6th, 2023 at 5:09 pm
Grey Star is world renowned for his epic washtub bass solos.
September 6th, 2023 at 5:56 pm
When the monsters find out the wizard is just blowing bubbles, they are gonna kick his ass.
September 6th, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Grey Star’s mom thinks he’s hanging out with a bad crowd[1]. But, then so does the toad’s.
[1] “You just don’t understand me!”
September 6th, 2023 at 9:30 pm
British edition, American edition, back covers, reprints.
https://gamebooks.org/Item/3824/Show
September 6th, 2023 at 11:21 pm
So apparently you come across a different critter on each page, and the artist was determined to get ALL of them on the cover.
In return, the layout person was determined to get ALL the fonts on.
Did the small explosion of light damage Grey Star (zzzz)’s right hand? Looks like instant terrible arthritis set in.
@fred: Good find. The British edition art is a bit jaundiced, but not so cluttered and goofy. Dude looks like a proper wizard.
Collector’s edition seems to have been drawn by someone of the age it’s aimed at.
Rather enjoyed the reviews as well — seems you HAD to cheat to win, which is bad design. So I suppose this badly designed cover is appropriate.
September 7th, 2023 at 12:53 am
Grey Star? Is that somewhere between a white dwarf and a black hole? Astronomically speaking, I mean. 😉
September 7th, 2023 at 2:42 am
♪ Froggy’s on the cover and he did smile, uh-hmm
Froggy’s on the cover and he did smile, uh-hmm
Froggy’s on the cover and he did smile, looks like everyone’s lunch is gettin’ overfried
Froggy’s on the cover and he did smile, uh-hmm ♪
(From the look on everyone’s faces, Grey Star is getting kicked out of the kitchen, back to sterilizing latrines for the remainder of duty)
September 7th, 2023 at 1:16 pm
@GSS
Putting the whole cast of monsters on the cover was good enough for Steve Jackson:
https://gamebooks.org/gallery/figfan02.jpg
September 7th, 2023 at 4:16 pm
From the back cover copy (thanks, @fred):
“Ahead lies a terrifying journey into the unknown where survival or death confronts you with every turn of the page.”
I dunno, isn’t that kind of true of everything?
And now I hear Three Dog Night in my head:
🎶How does your light shine
In the Halls of Shadakine?🎶
September 7th, 2023 at 11:00 pm
I guess “Gormless” is a bad wizard name, even if appropriate.
@Max: Not so many in the cast of that one, though.
@Hammy: heh heh. I guess this book thought it was rad and awesome to pick something so… boring and non-existent?
@Emster: GSS for all of it!
@BC: GSS. 1) good point 2) excellent earworm. The answer to that is apparently “uncontrolled and worrisome”.
September 7th, 2023 at 11:45 pm
You are…. Todd Rungren c 1973. A Wizard, A Grey Star. His psychedelic phase.
🎶 Hello, it’s me/ a giant mantis is right behind me”
(I know that’s from a different album but it’s late here…)
September 14th, 2023 at 3:42 pm
*pours one out for Joe Dever*