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Click for full imagePhil’s Art Direction: We don’t want people thinking he’s odd just because he’s tall and thin, so let’s have someone else tall and thin in the background. Then give him really odd hair.
Many thanks to Phil!
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June 1st, 2010 at 9:24 am
I’m not quite sure this is actually that bad. The women’s nakedness is almost covered. We can’t see the mans waxed chest and muscles. You know, all the things sci-fi readers usually look out for.
June 1st, 2010 at 9:50 am
Option 1: Odd John refers to the man who looks like a gay alien in disguise.
(Note the shape of head/eyes and his avoidance of the ladies).
Option 2: Odd John refers to the toilets on the island.
(Note the looks on both of the people’s faces…”I’m not going in those”).
June 1st, 2010 at 11:39 am
I’m surprised that gentle breeze isn’t blowing the waffer thin women away.
June 1st, 2010 at 11:56 am
I’d say that’s 35 cents worth of anyone’s money well spent. In fact, I’d willingly pay more. 36, even 37 cents.
June 1st, 2010 at 1:30 pm
“And this is my son, John.”
“Holy crap he has no pectorals!!”
John weeps
June 1st, 2010 at 1:56 pm
What a relief that this copy is “complete and unabridged.” I actually read the abridged version back in the eighties, and they left out the crucial scene where the hero, a disturbingly effeminate black man, fails to notice either the phallic island emerging from the sea or the naked woman practicing auto-asphyxiation on the beach behind him.
Totally ruined the book for me.
June 1st, 2010 at 3:55 pm
“But Alice–”
“John!”
“Right, John, what’s wrong with her? She’s tall, beautiful, tall, and she’s got huge tracts of island?”
“I don’t like her.”
June 1st, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Alistair Darling: Make love to me
Obama: Okay, but if there is an illegitimate love child, I want him named “Odd John”.
Alistair Darling: Fine. But if labour lose our election, Odd John is being abandoned on a desert island.
June 1st, 2010 at 9:12 pm
I can see his forehead from space!
June 1st, 2010 at 9:59 pm
In the movie “Odd John”, john can be played by Ken Foree from Dawn of the Dead.
http://www.horrorfindweekend.com/state/maryland/august/images2007/celebrities/kenforee.jpg
June 2nd, 2010 at 4:10 pm
@Leo Lorenzana HAHAHAH!!!! gasp! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good Show, Sir!
June 5th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
The Beacon Books edition of ODD JOHN has this blurb:
He had to be stopped, for all women were his playthings, and all men his pawns!
It also has a cover showing “a naked man chasing a naked woman.”
I know this from reading GHASTLY BEYOND BELIEF by Neil Gaiman and Kim Newman. It’s a book of quotes from SF and Fantasy books and movies, and if you love this site, you will surely love the book too. Good luck finding a copy.
January 4th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
Is the island a reference to Bocklin’s “Isle of the Dead” or am I demented?
February 25th, 2020 at 10:25 pm
Consider how much nudity they could get away with back then, if it was shown from very far away.