Apr 29
Good Show Sir Comments: Dragon Fail
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1984
(Average: 4.64 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: Dragon Fail
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1984
(Average: 4.64 out of 10)Loading...
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April 29th, 2024 at 2:09 pm
(Karloff voice:) I think I’ve created a mon-stair.
April 29th, 2024 at 2:56 pm
The lad on the cover doesn’t seem to be wearing Lionels, so however did he win the flare competition?
April 29th, 2024 at 3:35 pm
@Max: that must be the plot – the dragons had been able to pass among us with the aid of Harry Hill shirt-collars, talon-obscuring Rupert Bear slacks and a hand-made waistcoat fashioned on the Ronco Flower Loom. This combination was so appalling that nobody looked at their faces but it was all over by 1979 (or, in America, 1983).
In their bid to wrench us back to the Dark TImes, they’ve come to abduct Ali Campbell of UB40, which must be why the band stopped writing their own stuff and resorted to doing slightly naff Lover’s Rock covers of 70s songs.
April 29th, 2024 at 4:07 pm
I think it’s supposed to be Weird Science adjacent only with monsters instead of Kelly LeBrock. From his clothing I can’t decide which rock concert he’s returned from, but it probably wasn’t Black Sabbath.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/175744832336
April 29th, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Writing with a pencil on a carpet backing is going to be difficult enough, but that particular elbow-down posture will surely only make the task more challenging. To say nothing of the uncomfortable plastic shirt, someone firing a blue laser at his coiffure and the incoming horde of anthropomorphic demon-dragons.
My guess is that his homework will be incomplete.
April 29th, 2024 at 5:50 pm
Flare competition. Is that the one for the book with the cheesiest and most outdated cover art? Because I suspect that even in 1984 this was a worthy winner.
April 29th, 2024 at 8:07 pm
Mom had already grounded him for damage to the rec room during the demon summoning incident (totally not his fault). He had better put an immediate kybosh on this game of “bannister tag” or he’d be sleeping out in the shed with the rest of them…
April 29th, 2024 at 9:41 pm
And he’s buy – yi -ying the stair-air way to
drag … on.
April 29th, 2024 at 10:27 pm
Agreed that since no one on the cover is wearing bell-bottoms — nor holding a combustible light source found around car trouble — how could it win a flare contest?
@Tat: They were over before 1983 here too. I had a friend with access to an industrial sewing machine who’d cut down and restitch her family’s and other people’s old bellbottoms to have a reasonable leg width. I certainly was in straight-leg jeans before then.
@Ryan: Agreed about the improbability of his doing any writing, but there’s a small chance his hair is firing the laser.
@Emster: Hee!
@Tor: holds up lighter
April 30th, 2024 at 1:55 am
‘No, it wasn’t the dog that ate my homework. I’m not exactly sure what ate it.’
April 30th, 2024 at 5:10 am
When Airbnb goes terribly wrong.
April 30th, 2024 at 11:07 am
@GSS ex-noob, While he isn’t wearing bell-bottoms, he’s definitely wearing flares (though slight ones). I can attest this by having lived through that era where style did not reign. The placement of his hand and the dragon things that appear to be erupting from his bottom I leave to others to explain…
April 30th, 2024 at 12:35 pm
@DaveM
My bad, then, I thought those were drainpipes not flares.
April 30th, 2024 at 1:59 pm
Avon books catalog. The horror…the horror.
https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/avon-books
April 30th, 2024 at 4:38 pm
I misread the title as Dragon Fail.
I blame the artwork for priming my subconscious to expect that title.
April 30th, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Every entity on this cover suffers from Buffalo Head Syndrome, and most of the other proportions are subtly off as well. That might explain the vertigo it induces. Either that or the kid’s really ugly pants.
April 30th, 2024 at 6:26 pm
“You need to do something about the toilet.”
April 30th, 2024 at 7:22 pm
What happen when dragon trip on stair?
May 1st, 2024 at 4:02 am
@DaveM: Those aren’t wide enough at the bottom to be anything but drainpipe at most, as @Max said, and yet too wide to be stovepipe. He may be looking at them, trying to decide the proper description. Which he won’t be able to jot down, due to the position he’s in. But anyone who dresses like that in1983 to go to a rock (or even pop) concert isn’t concerned with fashion. The sleeves of his insanely-polyester shirt look beyond androgynous and into girly. Plus, he seems to be wearing white socks.
How does he not hear an entire staircase of pointy-toed monsters descending upon him? Why aren’t they all leaping upon him at once instead of tippy-toeing down in single file?
@Tor: Will happen; middle dragon leg over hand rail. THUD.
May 1st, 2024 at 5:13 am
@GSS ex-noob: is he unaware? I interpreted his pose and expression as “Oh, great. It’s those monsters, again, isn’t it?”
(Dragons, or monsters? Only the one in the middle really looks like a dragon, the bottom one looks like some sort of demon who’s wearing cutoff jeans, and the one on top seems to be wearing a suit. I get more a “Where the Wild Things Are” vibe than a “dragons” vibe.)
May 1st, 2024 at 12:12 pm
“For crying out loud, Flare! The concert is starting soon and we’ll miss the support band if you don’t stop mithering with your homework and assume your true form right now. You can do that when we get back. Meatsuit off, along with those cords!”
May 1st, 2024 at 12:49 pm
What happen when dragon trip on stair?
Dragon fall.
May 2nd, 2024 at 4:22 am
@Tor M—GSS! And today’s laurel!
May 2nd, 2024 at 4:34 am
@Bruce: So he’s doing the sedentary version of “cool guys walk away from explosions”?
As I sort of said to @Tor and vice versa, the one actual dragon in the middle is going to justify the title, because it’s the only one with one leg over the handrail like a doofus. Dragon fall, dragon THUD.
You’re entirely correct about the critters’ outfits. Taking into account @Max’s comment, it seems like they’re all cosplaying. It’s the most WTF combo of cosplay.
I knew there was something familiar about the boy’s trousers, Just realized they look EXACTLY like a pair I owned at that time, which were polyester imitating velvet. And, as you all know, I’m a woman. So between that and the girly-shouldered blouse, I wonder. And I mostly used those trews for cosplay…
June 6th, 2024 at 4:52 pm
In the day they called that brushed-cotton fabric pinwhale corduroy – corduroy without the ridges. It subtly inhibited your walk by making the insides of your trouser-clad thighs cling together.
There’s so much wrong with that kid’s pose, I can’t even go into it. And the front “dragon” disturbs me with his tighty-whities.