Aug 06
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Art Direction: We’re all women here and the book is written by women. Isn’t it clear what we need to have on here? A sky of dull looking stars surrounded by silver border. Oh wait… and a woman, who’s a bit pasty looking and has a earring to make all other earrings feel inadequate.
Published 1985
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August 6th, 2010 at 9:35 am
Must have been done in a very early version of the paint shop pro shareware
August 6th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Nah the font would be more… clip arty. 😉
That’s one hell of an adams apple. It’s lighting up the sky!
August 6th, 2010 at 10:44 am
Must have been a drag demon from the 80s possessing that poor woman’s mind in order for her to make such an extravagant accessory choice.
August 6th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
I would like to make it quite clear that, as a female, my mind has no frontiers. It is an infinite plain of shiny things, and shopping, and frolicing baby kittens, and really impressive earings.
August 6th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Dispatch the tinted sideburn.
August 6th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Nope, I am convinced that’s actually an alien boring it’s way into her brain.
Little Mi> And as a man I now know how to impress the female mind. With kitten tea parties all served by teddy bears wearing exquisite shiny shoes. I can’t fail!
August 6th, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I really can’t get a handle on what’s going on with that earring.
My theory is that it’s not an earring at all, but a snapshot of a tiny time-traveling alien spacecraft, fortuitously captured by a glamor shot photographer during a astronomy-themed session..
August 6th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
if you’re going to snark, you really need to be accurate. you meant ‘silver border’, referring to the frame around the image. not ‘silver boarder’, referring to the herald of Galactus.
August 6th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
I didn’t think it was a spacecraft. I thought it was a sign of a really really bad ear infection.
(oh, and the singular of ‘women’ is still ‘woman’; even when it was ‘wifman’ there was no ‘e’ in that position).
August 7th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
@Major – Yep I should really read things over 🙂
@Nix – You’re just nitpicking! 😛
No cookies for either of you! Just kidding, my ‘helper monkeys’ seem to have disappeared off on holiday or something. Thanks for pointing out!
August 7th, 2010 at 7:19 pm
I was just surfing, bored. spotted a meta-snark, and jumped.
August 7th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
It’s a severed head floating through space! No wonder she looks a bit pale.
And that’s no earring it’s a fly fishing tackle!
August 7th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I’m curious about there being one female mind. I thought the whole purpose of the women’s rights movement–or at least one of the main purposes–was to get men to recognize that women are individuals and not a single category. The tag line as it is does sound better than “Dispatches from the frontiers of several-individuals-who-happen-to-be-female’s minds”
August 10th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
@Brian B
Let’s also whinge about categorical uses of “male “!
Is her ear re-entering the atmosphere? Must hurt like a grumblesmurfer.
July 14th, 2012 at 1:46 am
On closer inspection, I don’t think that’s an earring. I believe it’s supposed to be one of her “despatches” falling out of her ear.
I’m not sure I like the implications here. It seems the artist is saying, “Females can’t keep a thought in their head.” Which I’m pretty sure the women who edited this thing weren’t intending.
June 2nd, 2014 at 9:09 pm
Day 108: still dark, still bloody, still squishy. Am attempting to signal help through the right temporal lobe. The signal flare should burst out of her ear. May affect language functions of her cerebral cortex. But it is a sacrifice I am prepared to have someone else make for me.
June 3rd, 2014 at 8:28 am
This is a typical example of “design by compromise.” Everyone had a say, anything that might offend anyone was removed, only the boring stuff remained.
February 15th, 2019 at 5:33 am
Impressive how someone in 1985 foresaw 1994’s most irritating fads: Dreamcatchers and Magic Eye posters. All it needs is Whigfield.
February 15th, 2019 at 10:02 am
“Must concentrate on the infinite to take my mind off how unbelievably tickly my earring is…”
February 15th, 2019 at 1:34 pm
The she looks up.
February 15th, 2019 at 4:26 pm
“Hey, I think I see the Sword Above the Night up there.”
February 15th, 2019 at 6:09 pm
Do you see a face or the left side of a quartz vase?
February 15th, 2019 at 6:36 pm
This cover would make a good postage stamp celebrating National Whacky Earring month.
February 16th, 2019 at 5:59 am
At least this title is better than the original one: “Discharges from the Female Ear.”
February 16th, 2019 at 6:36 am
Maybe the ear rocket is delivering the dispatches? In any event, as I’ve always said, better a rocket out of the ear than down the throat. http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=14298
February 16th, 2019 at 6:57 am
So the female mind is best represented by a wan, silent-movie-star woman’s head and neck in deep space, and the dispatches are via a large earring or small spaceship.
Yeah… no.
Is her neck nothing but tendons? Why does her adam’s apple go Ting!
January 8th, 2022 at 12:27 pm
It looks like Lt. Cmdr. Data is having a difficult time transitioning to gynoid. Didn’t know that was a thing.