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Hades’ Daughter

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And she's tired of living in the styx

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Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!r

Published 2003

Actually, that cover IS a classical work of art!I would touch it without protective gloves.I've seen worse. Far, far, worse.Interesting, but I would still read it in public.Middlng: Neither awful nor awfully goodWould not like to be seen reading that!Awful... just awful...That belongs in a gold-lame picture frame!Gah... my eyes are burning! Feels so good!Good Show Sir! (Average: 5.11 out of 10)
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18 Responses to “Hades’ Daughter”

  1. GSS ex-noob Says:
    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”?

  2. Tat Wood Says:
    November 16th, 2023 at 11:54 am

    Whatever the ginger kid’s doing with her two outfits, it’s annoyed Pan.

  3. fred Says:
    November 16th, 2023 at 12:53 pm

    Looking at the ground behind them they will be playing Twister.

  4. Max Bathroom Says:
    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.”

  5. Cornelius Says:
    November 16th, 2023 at 4:02 pm

    That year’s fashions were very good for hiding the fact the ladies only had one leg.

  6. Emster Says:
    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”.

  7. Ryan Says:
    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.

  8. Bruce A Munro Says:
    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.

  9. Bruce A Munro Says:
    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.

  10. Tat Wood Says:
    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.

  11. GSS ex-noob Says:
    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.

  12. Leak Says:
    November 17th, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    @GSS x-n: Nuh uh – Satan’s daughter is clearly called Phoebe, and that predates Adult Swim… 😛

  13. GSS ex-noob Says:
    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.

  14. JJYoyo Says:
    November 18th, 2023 at 2:12 am

    Justin Trudeau on the right looks pretty jacked.

  15. GSS ex-noob Says:
    November 19th, 2023 at 7:27 am

    It’s the boxing.

  16. JJYoyo Says:
    November 20th, 2023 at 4:31 am

    @GSSxN: GSS! And touché! A pretty sordid part of his rise.

  17. GSS ex-noob Says:
    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…

  18. A. R. Yngve Says:
    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

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