Jun 12
Good Show Sir Comments: “Hey, the Moon Called. They want their sword back.”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1983
(Average: 4.38 out of 10)
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Good Show Sir Comments: “Hey, the Moon Called. They want their sword back.”
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1983
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June 12th, 2024 at 2:17 pm
As Bonnie Tyler sang, it’s a total eclipse of the art.
June 12th, 2024 at 2:23 pm
Grasp my sword and polish my knob!
June 12th, 2024 at 2:29 pm
If you thought George Lucas went too far with his last round of CGI meddling with Star Wars, wait’ll you see what he’s done this time to Luke, Leia, and R2-D2.
June 12th, 2024 at 2:43 pm
In this era, “pulling out the sword” was the only means of contraception.
June 12th, 2024 at 2:48 pm
The stone head to the right of the giant sword looks oddly like my grandad.
That’s the nearest to comprehensibility this vignette has to offer. Why is the pearl pommel projector displaying all of his cloak but none of his body? Can either party see the other – if so, why are they looking at different things? If the holo-sword is really between her hand and the votive bust of my grandad, is it (a) real, (b) made of glass and (c) really so grotesquely big for her as to be a nuisance if she uses it for anything beyond images of emo-looking Roman Emperors?
June 12th, 2024 at 5:49 pm
This book seems to hit a lot of fantasy tropes. Variant cover w/back.
https://ca.biblio.com/book/moon-called-norton-andre/d/1600688251
June 12th, 2024 at 9:45 pm
Is the cover girl unusually small, or is it just a really big sword?
June 13th, 2024 at 1:51 am
Moon called, it wants to talk to you about your sword’s extended warranty.
June 13th, 2024 at 2:36 am
GSS Comment is perfect.
And a hearty GSS! to all. Everyone’s on top form. Especially @Tat, and for @fred starting us off so well.
I think we all saw this as a Star Wars hologram.
That sword is too big for her and Emperor Emo Maximus; what purpose can it have?
I do give the artist credit for putting the damsel in sensible clothes and boots for traipsing the fields.
June 13th, 2024 at 5:21 am
“This is Moon King. I’m not in right now, but if you leave a message I’ll return your sword call as soon as I can.”
June 13th, 2024 at 9:44 am
The latest thing for your caving adventurer, the combined sword and torch. Be the envy of your raiding party. Available from JML at a very reasonable £19.99. Batteries not included.
June 13th, 2024 at 1:57 pm
Is a moon call anything like a booty call?
June 13th, 2024 at 2:49 pm
@Cornelius: almost perfect, but surely this, of all things, would be brought to us by bu-bu-bu-bu-Bulbhead (Aaaahhh).
June 13th, 2024 at 5:51 pm
There’s just no ting going on with this cover.
June 13th, 2024 at 6:37 pm
(Sgt. Schultz voice:) I see no ting. No ting!
June 13th, 2024 at 8:20 pm
@Cornelius: still not as good as torchspear.
https://www.oglaf.com/endpoint/
(Warning: most of oglaf is far less SFW)
June 13th, 2024 at 11:13 pm
@Cornelius: But you’d have to hold the sword backwards, which defeats the whole pointy thing. Torchspear is better.
June 13th, 2024 at 11:19 pm
@B A M: that made me immediately think of another Oglaf strip (also SFW) regarding swords – turns out it was exactly the one before yours… 🙂
June 15th, 2024 at 12:14 am
“Hey, Moon called.”
“Moon?”
“Yeah, she said ‘Like, tell Chrissy to stop polishing Jimmy’s sword(so grody, fer suuuure) so we can go to the Galleria for some 501s or a bitchin’ miniskirt or something. Gag me with a spoon….'”
Not coincidentally, I think, hhe movie “Valley Girl” was released in 1983.
June 15th, 2024 at 1:23 am
“Moon called. He says Daltrey and Tonwshend ordered him to apologise.”
June 15th, 2024 at 1:54 am
@Tat: So that’s Keith coming in on the sword-form OtherSidePhone? The male version of the Princess Phone?
@Hammy: The odd thing at the time was that the girls I went to high school (and the mall) with had totally been talking like that for 4-5 years before then, fer shure. And we lived in the flyover states so the thought that this was a brand-new LA-only trend was like, huh?
June 15th, 2024 at 2:31 am
@GSS-xn (#prev):
I bow to your superior knowledge of such subjects. I was not one of those fortunate enough to do things like hang out at the mall with friends (assuming that I even *had* friends at that time).
I just thought the timing was less-than-coincidental. 😉
June 15th, 2024 at 3:51 am
In another astounding harmonic convergence, Zappa’s daughter, Moon Unit, recorded his song Valley Girls in 1982, a song basically responsible for the whole world thinking that way of talking was unique to the San Fernando valley. This factoid seems to tie everything mind-blowingly together.
June 15th, 2024 at 4:45 am
Also, Keith Moon appears in Zappa’s legendary film (one of the very first feature films shot on video) 200 Motels, though that was a decade earlier.
June 16th, 2024 at 12:44 am
@BC has tied it all together.
Come to think of it, Janis from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem said “fer shure” all the time, despite the band being a 60s/70s concept. The Muppet Show was late 70s.
Moon Unit just grabbed the credit. Bits of that vocab survive to this day. IKR?!
Maybe Keith is telling the girl to knock off the uptalk and vocal fry.
(Like, I have totally been to the Galleria once. I was in the Valley on business and it was like the closet mall to my motel. My friends and I took it ironically, fer shure.)
June 21st, 2024 at 8:16 pm
The good ship Good Show Sir seems to have run aground: perhaps we need a tow?
https://www.envistaforensics.com/media/rkmp1pkb/ship-stuck-in-suez-canal.jpeg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=900&height=447&rnd=132694723062530000&format=webp&quality=80
June 22nd, 2024 at 5:36 am
At least we’re afloat unlike all the times we have database errors!
June 22nd, 2024 at 6:04 pm
@Bruce: No, that ship has sailed.
June 23rd, 2024 at 8:16 pm
We’ve been taken over again, perhaps?
June 24th, 2024 at 3:58 am
We have no time!
July 13th, 2024 at 11:39 am
Now, I want to emphatically deny rumors that fantasy book covers deal in cheap symbolism. There is nothing going on “between the lines” here, except in the filthy imagination of basement dwellers.
This is just a sword the young damsel is lusting after. Nothing more!
I also believe in the Easter Bunny, chem trails and Flat Earth.
August 20th, 2024 at 4:54 pm
Maybe not how to play but I referred to GoodReads to get an angle on what is going on. I quote: “High Priestess Thora armed with the power of the moon joins with the brave warrior, Makil, to fight against the evil of the Dark Lord” … “An odd cross between a post-apocalyptic story and a Witch World book” … “if you want a fantasy novel where a witch in training, her dog, and an ewok discover ancient astronauts, partake in creepy blood rituals, astral project, are attacked D&D style by giant rats, discuss the impact of culture on gender roles, and dance naked in moonlight I think you will find something to enjoy.”
“After raiders invade her home in the Craigs, Thora, the Chosen One, wanders west through strange territory and finds a wounded child size bipedal creature covered in fur. [That will be the ewok. Not on the cover.] As they search for the furred one’s human partner, they travel through ruins from the Before Time and find evidence of the Dark moving across the land.”
Presumably the moon is in the background, drawn larger than we expect (either artistic licence or something about the apocalypse), and we can still see the moon through the cloak so… it’s an invisibility cloak? And the Sword of Gryffindor cleaves it? Or something? Or, this is the astral projection scene?
It isn’t clear to me whether Makil is a nice moon boy or is the ewok. And whether we are looking at the male interest, or at the Dark Lord. At the risk of spoiling what’s described as a children’s book, Thora gets the opportunity to settle down with the nice moon boy, but she decides not to. Reviewers disagreed as to whether this is triumphant feminism, self sabotage, or whether a post-apocalypse woman shouldn’t be not wandering through strange territory anyway but staying at home and having babies to repopulate the world, oh my god. I’m guessing triumphant feminism, that Andre Norton, even here, is way past rewarding a heroine with marriage, and, not that I go that way, but a smart lady doesn’t come between the boy and his ewok, anyway. So in my head this is a gay furry romance between characters one or both of whom we aren’t even seeing here. I hope I don’t ever read it and be disappointed.