Aug 10
Click for full imageTommi’s Art Direction: A bunch of barely dressed devil-types in a tornado, going after the barely dressed voluptuous blonde (who probably twisted her ankle just a moment ago and has perfect hair) and a heavily muscled monk (in deranged wardrobe so you can see the muscles … oh and perfect hair).
Published 1983
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August 10th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Very American
August 10th, 2010 at 10:50 am
The guy looks jealous he isn’t escaping from a daemonic cloud in a bikini!
August 10th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Funny, how all SF titles get a different sort of vibe in German… especially if you, like me, haven’t mastered German and imagine the German translations incorrectly:
ENDER’S ÃœBERWAFFENSPILLE (Ender’s Game)
ICH, EISENMANN (I, Robot)
DAS DUNE VINDSCHAFT (Winds of Dune)
LUFT (Air)
August 10th, 2010 at 11:35 am
They must have spent hours getting their hair ready before running away stylishly.
I’m not sure that poor girl has a waist instead of just some hips and a rib cage, connected with a spine and some tissue paper.
That’s probably not funny… I’m still really tired!
August 10th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
Correct my German if I’m wrong, but I think that literally translates as “The Hell of Tarot.”
August 10th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
Yes it would literally be “The Hell of Tarot.” Could mean nether realm or some such I believe. My German’s only so good though … could be a colloquialism with which I am not familiar.
August 10th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
“The Hell of Tarot”? I don’t think they’re quite that bad.
Anyway, they seem to be taking the whole demons-being-shot-up-from-underground affair incredibly well.
August 10th, 2010 at 8:19 pm
“The Hell of Tarot”? I don’t think they’re quite that bad.
Anyway, they seem to be taking the whole demons-being-shot-from-underground affair incredibly well.
August 11th, 2010 at 12:21 am
I have noticed before a distinct prejudice here. Bikini-clad lovelies with ankle bracelets and perfect hair and make-up deserve to be rescued just as much as the decently-clad maidens. If the only available help is an ex-news anchor who has become a monk are you going to refuse? You know there are so many glamour model shoots going on at any one time some must be, by the law of probability, next to a demonically-plagued monastery.
Is the monk’s left leg coming out of his belly button?
Shame the artist hasn’t got prints available on her website.
http://www.rowenaart.com/index.html
August 11th, 2010 at 6:38 am
The monk looks exactly like the comedian Peter Serafinowicz. I’m sure I’d hear his dialogue in his “Fran-tastic” voice from Black Books.
August 11th, 2010 at 12:29 pm
By the way, have you noticed how often cover art is recycled?
I swear the first time I saw the above image was on the cover of a Swedish edition of L. Sprague De Camp’s LEST DARKNESS FALL.
Beats me for which title the art is the most appropriate…
August 11th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Good heavens, Asuka and Shinji don’t seem to be taking on the end of the world after all.
August 11th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
I think our mistake is that the ex-news anchor is a monk. Is this based purely upon the gold “rosary?”
His “robes” have lapels.
My theory is that he’s a flasher, albeit a buff and coiffed flasher, in a trench coat wearing a bit of bling.
This changes the dynamic quite a bit don’t you think?
August 11th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
So, NGpm, you think that is not his leg?
August 12th, 2010 at 3:01 am
Being a student of the Tarot at the time,I read the entire series when it first came out. somewhat entertaining, but the main character is a guy that has to deny his sexual urges, not unlike Bink in the Xanth series. I mean, c’mon!
April 6th, 2015 at 4:43 pm
This cover was actually re-used from TOM NOIR: The Unauthorized Autobiography.
April 6th, 2015 at 11:59 pm
Indeed. The scene illustrated is from chapter 6, ‘That Time Tom Noir Summoned a Magical Cyclone to Pursue Dead Stuff With Big Teeth and His Beautiful, Devoted Wife.’
December 5th, 2017 at 3:55 am
“Die Holle Mit Tarot” is a book I might read.
December 5th, 2017 at 4:00 am
@Cathal (10) assuming he’s still around somewhere: Thanks, Piers Anthony… Thanthony.
(It never gets old.)
December 5th, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Boob-dowsing cross aside, what’s with the string around her leg? A spare in case any of the strings that hold up her “clothes” break? Such a weird detail.