May 06
Max Bathroom Comments: The thighs of Sarsis…
Published 1980
(Average: 4.42 out of 10)
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Max Bathroom Comments: The thighs of Sarsis…
Published 1980
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May 6th, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Not one piece of Offutness on this cover…OH there’s that…and that…and possibly that.
May 6th, 2024 at 1:10 pm
Her, but NOT the boat she rode in on.
(OK, it makes less sense this time around.)
May 6th, 2024 at 1:40 pm
I’m just trying to figure out the event this is meant to represent.
Is she just getting ready to step out of the boat — or maybe to straddle her lizard — and is surprised to suddenly discover a dude standing at the stern? Has he been hiding under the seat all this time? Or did he just ting into existence? And who’s steering this thing, anyway?
May 6th, 2024 at 5:33 pm
Tiana’s been playing Candy Crush too much and is hallucinating floating diamonds. She’s so disorientated she forgot to pack Nair.
May 6th, 2024 at 8:48 pm
Tag with “awkward hand/weapon placement – I can’t unsee that”?
At the very least he should be less worried about grabbing Startled Nicole Kidman and more worried that he’s gonna get his undercarriage mashed by her sword hilt/pommel. Keep yer hands to yerself, bub!
May 6th, 2024 at 10:22 pm
At least yon damsel has more skin covered here than in the other… does she end up totally starkers except for the metal underpants by the third one? checks ISFDB Pretty near, although she’s wearing a string bikini, a ridiculous hat, and she’s sprouted wings.
I’ve no idea what the lizard’s doing there. Neither does the lizard. He probably just crawled onto the bow to take a nap (camouflaged) and suddenly there’s a ginger bimbo and Mr. NeckTing!
Not sure how this boat is being propelled unless Tiana and lizard are washing ashore onto the jagged rocks.
@Nomad: By her look of surprise, I think he Ting!ed into existence there.
@Emster: Heartily agree. That hilt is going into his bits. And doubly agree about the awkward hand/arm position; I got mine into it a few minutes ago and it still hurts, even sans scimitar and head turn.
Finally: Rowena can’t quite draw feet, or at least toes. I’m not sure about Tiana’s kneecap either. Or her spinal column.
May 6th, 2024 at 11:31 pm
Like Nomad I can’t work out what’s going on here. What is Tiana supposed to be reacting to? Breastplate bloke doesn’t look like he could sneak up on anyone, he seems to be in a static robot pose that makes me think the glowing throat jewel is a mind control thingy. And what is the lizard so grumpy about?
May 7th, 2024 at 12:50 am
“This boat ride is so BORING. I know, let’s all do our favorite things!”
And so it was that Biff Breastplateman turned on his Jewel of Illumination and began to dance The Robot, and simultaneously Tiana shaved her legs with a sabre while keeping her eyes averted, and Horny the Iguana froze in place, only moving his eyes independently to watch the diverse performances of the other passengers.
May 7th, 2024 at 1:10 am
I was havin’ one of those Mondays… GSS to all for the giggles.
May 7th, 2024 at 1:38 am
It’s a photo shoot, and the director is demanding increasingly absurd poses. The guy is a camera-golem.
May 7th, 2024 at 3:52 am
@Emster: Many’s the time the good folk of GSS have snapped me out of the blahs. They headed off one actual depressive episode for me once.
@Vlttp: You’d look startled if you were just shaving your legs with your pet lizard on a small boat when suddenly there’s a Ting! from a half-armored dude. Who is probably doing the robot, and maybe he’s also got a speaker playing his dance tunes.
@Ryan: GSS! 11/10, no notes.
May 7th, 2024 at 4:43 am
Preliminary art for this cover. Some things seem to have gotten bigger when compared to the second link, the finished painting.
https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/miscellaneous/rowena-morrill-eyes-of-sarsis-paperback-cover-preliminary-original-art-pocket-books-1980-/a/121509-11097.s#
https://arthive.com/artists/64732~Rowena_Morrill/works/349598~The_Eyes_Of_Sarsis
May 7th, 2024 at 6:00 am
“The Eyes of Sarsis are up here, Mac!”
May 7th, 2024 at 1:21 pm
@Ryan and GSSxn: Yep, alright, as good an explanation as any.
@Zarth: I can’t do links but check ‘The Demon in the Mirror’ – and expect a letter from my solicitor.
May 8th, 2024 at 1:21 am
After 2 whole covers, I can’t believe no one’s gone for this low-hanging fruit, so I’m going to decree Ting!Neck’s background music is
“The eyyyyes of Tharsis are upoooon you!”
May 9th, 2024 at 12:53 am
Not so low-hanging that I didn’t need to google it.
May I offer ‘Sheeee’s got Bette Sarsis Eyes!’
June 6th, 2024 at 4:57 pm
She really rocks wearing a kitchen towel.
June 6th, 2024 at 9:51 pm
Judging from perspective, foreshortening, various angles, it appears there are at least three separate entities inside that kitchen towel. As with so many of the *best* GSS covers, things just don’t quite add up . . . .
Great thread; GSS to all!
June 9th, 2024 at 4:13 am
@BC: So it’s like the cliche of 2-3 kids in a trench coat trying to get into an R-rated movie?
Either that or someone’s gone Dr. Frankenstein, but had no sense of proportion or how anatomy works.
June 9th, 2024 at 4:26 am
@GSS ex-noob: Dr. Liefeldstein? [1]
[1] https://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CaptainAmericaRobLiefeld.jpg
June 10th, 2024 at 6:10 am
@Bruce: EXACTLY. Although not enough pouches to accessorize.
Poor girl is a victim of Escher Syndrome. Maybe she’s traveling the trackless wastes to find a cure.
July 15th, 2024 at 6:19 pm
Rowena instructing her models:
“Now imagine you’re standing in a boat – a very small boat – and you are trying to sneak up on her. Please try to look like the boat rocks in the waves. Joe, for God’s sake don’t be so stiff! You’re standing in a small boat, Joe! Wobble a bit…!”
July 24th, 2024 at 5:33 pm
Here is how much GSS is part of my life. Last night I woke up with the realization that my original post should have said this:
Her, but NOT the boat she rowed in on.
July 24th, 2024 at 11:09 pm
@Tor: I think you might have been equally correct the first time. There’s no sign of oars or oarlocks on that.
The boat looks to be the best thing on this cover. If it doesn’t smash on the rocks, it looks like a sturdy craft good for pottering around in. I’d have much more use for it than a woman with non-Euclidean joints (and we all know how bad said geometry is in fantasy), or the Ting!Meister. I’d let the lizard go about its scaly business.
July 29th, 2024 at 4:00 pm
In case I don’t get to do this again, apologies to The Who and everyone subjected to my silliness:
Thank you @Tor for commenting here (Rowena’s Magic Boat!)
There are no oars, how does it steer? (Sarsis, Magic Boat!)
Lizard is a grumpy gus (Weird clothes, Magic Boat!)
That’s what makes it fun for us (GSS, Magic Boat!)