Nov 16
Good Show Sir Comments: Hell’s Belles!
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!r
Published 2003
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Tagged with: BEHIND YOU! • bull people • damsel • dude • embossing • font problems • Luis Royo • Sara Douglass • toga • Tor Books
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November 16th, 2023 at 8:06 am
I guess the cover space and embossing wouldn’t run to “Hades’ Daughter, Some Other Chick, and a Dude”?
November 16th, 2023 at 11:54 am
Whatever the ginger kid’s doing with her two outfits, it’s annoyed Pan.
November 16th, 2023 at 12:53 pm
Looking at the ground behind them they will be playing Twister.
November 16th, 2023 at 1:02 pm
“Where’s Paris? This absolutely typical: we arrange to play mixed doubles and he’s hiding up a tree to avoid Menalaus or running away from somebody dressed up as Achilles again. Your brother’s even more of a wimp than you are, Aeneas.”
November 16th, 2023 at 4:02 pm
That year’s fashions were very good for hiding the fact the ladies only had one leg.
November 16th, 2023 at 4:23 pm
@Cornelius: I am convinced that SF cover artists charge extra for feet. Publisher only had enough money in the budget for three feet and a big toe.
Also, Hades better be careful or he’ll get his horns tangled in the “ugh”.
November 16th, 2023 at 4:28 pm
Somehow the embossed title is simultaneously in front of the proscenium arch and also behind Pan’s rack.
November 16th, 2023 at 9:44 pm
“And we want to make it perfectly clear we haven’t missed Leg Day.”
GSS, mouseover writer!
GSS ex-noob: they’re just Styx sidekicks.
@Emster: if that’s supposed to be Hades, the artist and/or writer doesn’t seem to be aware of the difference between Hades and Satan.
November 16th, 2023 at 9:55 pm
By the by, Hades is in fact recorded as having at least one daughter, Macaria, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaria#Goddess , who in turn has a half-sister, Melinoe, Goddess of nightmares (the result of Zeus sexing up Persephone while disguised as Hades. Zeus gotta Zeus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melino%C3%AB
In some accounts, the Furies are also daughters of Hades. Combined with Macaria’s parentage, Underworld Thanksgiving get togethers are probably quite awkward.
November 16th, 2023 at 10:36 pm
Although there were some brave efforts at accurate feet, the lady in front seems to be walking down a sloping surface and crudely composited onto a picture of stone steps.
Either that or she’s invented stiletto sandals, which’ll make those steps a whole lot harder to walk down, even without that over-long toga.
November 17th, 2023 at 12:22 am
The ladies’ outfits (particularly Ginger’s) seem to be designed to trip them.
@Emster: UGH is the noise he’s making about his horns being trapped.
@Ryan: I think you’re supposed to be so distracted by the embossing, you don’t notice the perspective problems. Oops.
@Bruce: I bet your Wiki facts here represent more thought about this than the artist ever did. Plus, Adult Swim fans know that the devil’s daughter is named Lucy.
November 17th, 2023 at 2:56 pm
@GSS x-n: Nuh uh – Satan’s daughter is clearly called Phoebe, and that predates Adult Swim… 😛
November 17th, 2023 at 10:47 pm
No one here’s wearing a toga. The girls are in some kind of smexy chiton, and dude’s in… I dunno, an exomis?
They all look like they’re in Halloween costumes. Or both they and their costumes came from Central Casting.
November 18th, 2023 at 2:12 am
Justin Trudeau on the right looks pretty jacked.
November 19th, 2023 at 7:27 am
It’s the boxing.
November 20th, 2023 at 4:31 am
@GSSxN: GSS! And touché! A pretty sordid part of his rise.
November 21st, 2023 at 2:11 am
@JJYoyo: He did almost strip once too, I hear.
Presumably this guy is an ancestor.
I miss the days of him and Obama hanging out. We used to have a pair of tall good-looking, athletic, young leaders, and now…
December 9th, 2023 at 11:38 am
Artists who work on the human form over a long time tend to fall into two camps:
A) They make their humans increasingly shorter and smaller
B) They make their humans increasingly taller and ganglier