Apr 17
Max Bathroom Comments: The original design for Beastman was deemed unsuitable for the Masters of the Universe line, and the designers had to try again.
Published 1987
(Average: 6.46 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom Comments: The original design for Beastman was deemed unsuitable for the Masters of the Universe line, and the designers had to try again.
Published 1987
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April 17th, 2024 at 2:06 pm
We caught him howling at the moon
And swinging such a nasty weapon!
And now he’s looking like a loon,
His head a cat-like helmet set on!
Starkadder!
Starkadder!
He jumps and spins and shouts!
Starkadder!
Starkadder!
Who knows what its about?
April 17th, 2024 at 2:07 pm
An upwardly mobile gentleman such as this should have a quality pocketwatch instead of some cheap timepiece strapped to a forearm.
April 17th, 2024 at 3:32 pm
Who else read this as Viagra-Moon?
April 17th, 2024 at 4:22 pm
Starkadder – that would be the nudist branch of the Blackadder family. And Now you have a choice – imagining Rowan Atkinson under that mask or imagining him naked. No one said life was meant to be easy!
April 17th, 2024 at 4:26 pm
Does Vargr the Starkadder buckle that mask on around his braided coif?
Or is the braid part of his helmet-mask?
Either way, the braiding experience must be a challenge with those nails.
April 17th, 2024 at 4:57 pm
They wisely obscure whatever he’s sitting on that’s making him pull that face and yell.
Possibly Baldrick.
April 17th, 2024 at 7:36 pm
He does have a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2MHxDEfbDg
April 17th, 2024 at 10:30 pm
I don’t want to pooh-pooh the artist, but the position of the upper jaw and the shape of the helmet suggests a lycanthrope of Very Little Brain.
“… you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”
Probably applicable to both the cover illustration and the book as a whole.
April 18th, 2024 at 1:24 am
@Tor Mented
So is there a ‘before’ picture with a droopy sword then?
April 18th, 2024 at 2:47 am
What is this I don’t even.
So he’s some sort of were-lion-thingy, but he buckles a helmet around his head, ears, and mane. I am entirely in agreement with all of @Ryan’s comment.
He’s really into straps and buckles, as you see with the pointless one on his arm, and all the stuff around his chest. This artist got an A at UAI on strap and buckle day.
Does he know Myrr?* The country bumpkin cousin vs. sophisticated ruffly shirt guy? Do they both yiff in hell?
@Bruce: All true.
*Mhyrr? Myhrr? Myrrh?
April 19th, 2024 at 4:28 am
Oh, here it is: Myhr.
https://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12740
At least this guy isn’t
fanfic
of the author’s
friend’s
(the artist)
Furry alter ego
Rip-off
of an old TV show.
At least that’s what I hope.
Or he might just be a Barbarian of Very Little Brain who puts on the helmet.
And doesn’t “vargr” mean wolf? Which I guess the mask looks like, but aren’t werewolves hairy all over? Could it just be some idiot in a wolf mask with bad dentition?
April 19th, 2024 at 11:47 am
Just to clarify: a Vargr is a sort of Viking-era Swedish werewolf berserker with vampiric tendencies (at least in this book), and Starkadder is somebody else entirely.
April 19th, 2024 at 9:17 pm
@Max: For certain values of “clarify”.
Let’s throw all the “kewl” things in at once so he can be totally rad awesome badass. Pretty sure that was the writer’s and artist’s thinking.
Don’t his arms get tired? Despite his superfluity of straps and buckles, he doesn’t seem to have a scabbard for that big sword. And he looks too skinny to use it.
And MOTU seems more logical and less overwrought than this.
April 21st, 2024 at 4:27 pm
Clearly, my taxonomic skills need some work.
April 21st, 2024 at 8:41 pm
@Nomad
But you deserve credit for beating everyone to the first Blackadder joke.
April 30th, 2024 at 11:56 pm
@ NomadUK: GSS! Beat me to it and did it better than I could have.
I seen a Vargyr-Moon rising’
I seen a doofus on the way
I seen some questionable attire
I seen a bad cover today.
May 3rd, 2024 at 6:20 pm
How about maybe—
🎶
Shine on
Shine on Vargr-Moon
Up in the sky
I ain’t seen a cover this bad since
April, January, June or July
🎶
May 3rd, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Vargr-Moon, Vargr-Moon
Does whatever a Vargr-can
or
These Vargr-moon shoes, are yearning to stray
Right to the very heart of it, UAI UAI
May 4th, 2024 at 12:46 am
Some good songs lately! Especially from @BC, who has successfully earwormed me.
Also @Tat, who has caused me to imagine an entire chorus line of vargr, which of course is from Broadway, as was a musical about his first song…
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July 13th, 2024 at 11:53 am
NomadUK: Good show sir, good show.
🙂