@Nomad beat me to the Tap reference. Petitioning the judges if something from the Easy Rider/The Last Movie milieu is also acceptable. Really, who does art like this in 1988?
I keep looking at his eyes. They don’t match. Between that and the sword’s earring (which doesn’t even Tiny Ting!) it’s hard for me to take him seriously, let alone believe gods would be challenged. I mean, just hurl a bolt of lightning at the tip of that sword and poof.
His forehead jewelry appears to be surgically attached.
It is a little less risible than the Vargr-Moon cover.
I’d give a pass to the mustache/face fade, since one does come from t’other. But the forehead jewelry is spot on, and if the sword is attached to his hand, it’ll be easy to swing but useless at any other time Could be fused to his palm/fingers too.
The only tip-off that it’s UAI and not AI is that the number of fingers is correct. Probably.
June 10th, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Derek Smalls decides to bag Mozart and go all in for Wagner; more swords.
June 10th, 2024 at 1:52 pm
A sword with an earring. If I were a big G god I would definitely feel challenged not to at least giggle a bit.
June 10th, 2024 at 3:32 pm
He wanders Midgard issuing his chalenge: Gizza Job!
June 10th, 2024 at 6:06 pm
@Tat
I’d not thought of Yosser, to be honest, but now I look at it again maybe he’s sporting a donkey jacket under that cloak…
June 10th, 2024 at 6:40 pm
This just screams “Prog Rock” to me.
June 10th, 2024 at 6:41 pm
I thought a Death-Binder was where one stores one’s collection of famous obituary notices.
(Ba-dum-DUM)
June 10th, 2024 at 6:43 pm
He’s out to poke Death in the eye.
June 10th, 2024 at 10:44 pm
Deathbligner?
@Nomad beat me to the Tap reference. Petitioning the judges if something from the Easy Rider/The Last Movie milieu is also acceptable. Really, who does art like this in 1988?
Also agreeing with @fred, @Tracy, @Bruce.
Good find, Max.
June 11th, 2024 at 3:57 am
Even the Gods themselves were challenged… by his mustache.
June 11th, 2024 at 2:35 pm
This was the 3rd in a trilogy, but was never published in the US.
June 12th, 2024 at 3:06 am
Bernard King? The only Bernard King I know of was an American basketball player.
I’m guessing that the gods were challenged to a slam-dunk contest, or a three-point shooting contest, or maybe just a good old game of ‘horse’.
June 12th, 2024 at 5:24 am
I keep looking at his eyes. They don’t match. Between that and the sword’s earring (which doesn’t even Tiny Ting!) it’s hard for me to take him seriously, let alone believe gods would be challenged. I mean, just hurl a bolt of lightning at the tip of that sword and poof.
His forehead jewelry appears to be surgically attached.
It is a little less risible than the Vargr-Moon cover.
@fred: Guess it didn’t sell too well over here.
June 20th, 2024 at 1:21 pm
Earring attached to sword, headband melting into forehead, moustache fading into face. Yes – anything AI can do the UAI can do better.
June 20th, 2024 at 11:05 pm
@Vlttp: LOL!
I’d give a pass to the mustache/face fade, since one does come from t’other. But the forehead jewelry is spot on, and if the sword is attached to his hand, it’ll be easy to swing but useless at any other time Could be fused to his palm/fingers too.
The only tip-off that it’s UAI and not AI is that the number of fingers is correct. Probably.
July 13th, 2024 at 11:30 am
Hey, “Death-Blinder” ROCKED! One of the best Spinal Tap songs!
In ancient times
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
There lived a strange warrior
The Death-Blinder
No one knows who he was
Or… what he was doing
But his legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock
of Death-Blinder Mountain…