Big Eye creature wins my heart. But how does it get food to the tiny mandibles without bruising the eye? Maybe there’s hidden arms to match the hidden legs.
Ape Lad’s outfit is so endearing – (Full disclosure: I wear socks just like those). And the way Our Hero comfortingly holds AL’s hand – shows strength and compassion.
@Brian B.
Although Charlton Heston is no longer with us – and probably wasn’t much of a crooner even when he was alive – I see him as the male lead here. Good experience with sentient apes – a big plus.
I think the guy in khaki looks like a young Martin Landau. I also think that if he were to unbend his right leg and put his foot on the ground it would reveal itself to be ten inches shorter than the left leg.
But the striped knee socks, circus vest, and leiderhosen complete the ensemble to great effect when topped off by the handkerchief-under-Civil-War cap.
Also, his expression and body language as he pleads with Martin Landau, “Oh, God! Why do you dress me like this?”
@Ryan: “We humans genetically uplifted you to give you the wondrous gift of conscious sapience. Therefore, it’s only fair we get to dress you in cute outfits.”
@Ryan: those are cotton gym socks, for sure. Poor ape seems to be dressed from the lost and found box. I’m not sure why he’s got a French Foreign Legion hat on either. Or why his fur’s all patchy.
Or what he and Martin Landau are doing in the company of demonic winged creature — who, judging by the figures on the left, is a flying monkey?
Or how decorative-winged eyeball tentacle fits into it all.
@Tat (15): Belated GSS!
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October 6th, 2010 at 10:09 am
The back has flying fish!
http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/1/13/WLLRNDSTRH1983.jpg
I love this cover, it’s so busy. The man on the cover clearly had to choose a strange creature to take with him, so he choose the closest ancestor.
October 6th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Quite agree. I like the eyeball serpent with the fairy wings. She seems quite enthralled by the Comic Sans-type font.
I think admin is right, this would make a phenomenal musical: “The wall around a star is tall; a smaller wall would fail and fall…”
October 6th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Big Eye creature wins my heart. But how does it get food to the tiny mandibles without bruising the eye? Maybe there’s hidden arms to match the hidden legs.
Ape Lad’s outfit is so endearing – (Full disclosure: I wear socks just like those). And the way Our Hero comfortingly holds AL’s hand – shows strength and compassion.
Classic Good Show – The Musical
October 6th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Okay then we must cast this musical! For the diva monster in the back it must be Diana Ross, or possibly Tina Tuner. Who else shall we cast?
October 6th, 2010 at 2:40 pm
@Brian B.
Although Charlton Heston is no longer with us – and probably wasn’t much of a crooner even when he was alive – I see him as the male lead here. Good experience with sentient apes – a big plus.
October 6th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
I think the guy in khaki looks like a young Martin Landau. I also think that if he were to unbend his right leg and put his foot on the ground it would reveal itself to be ten inches shorter than the left leg.
October 6th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Art direction: lots of weird creatures, aliens, eyeballs, etc. Make sure everything has wings.
October 6th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Now for the big number:
when you wall around a star, makes no difference *what* you are
I can even hear that being sung in Heston’s “let my people go” neck straining delivery style!
October 7th, 2010 at 1:42 am
Hey Doctor Chimp is a great character and Ben Pertin isn’t bad either! This cover on the other hand…
October 7th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Imagine the cry of agony from that one-eyed thingy, when one of the other characters just happen to kick up some dust…
“AAAGGHH MY EYE MY EYE MY EYEEEE!!!”
October 7th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Wall Around A Star – The Musical? There’d better be a big number about Dyson spheres.
October 7th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Hmm, what rhymes with Dyson?
Bison,
Mike Tyson,
License (sort of),
My sin,
I think this is shaping up to be an awesome number! Think we could get Helena Bonham Carter to voice the winged snake/tentacle thingie?
October 8th, 2010 at 9:12 am
It’s Martin Landau’s Space: 1999 era haircut mixed up with Bruce Campbell’s chin.
The rest of the face is still up for grabs.
October 8th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Herm & Brian> “Don’t you Cry Son… you’ll get your Dyson”
I should write musicals.
October 29th, 2013 at 11:31 pm
(To the tune ‘Bad Moon Rising’)
I sing of Freeman Dyson
I see a wall around a star
Satellites are forming the horizon
Sunlight can only get so far
They’ll put out the light
Solar power will fuel their flight
There’s a barrier on the rise.
Far off somebody’s got their eyes on
Starlight that’s suddenly obscured
Can’t stop astronomers surmisin’
ET’s whole lebensraum’s assured
Star went out tonight
Dyson Sphere took all the light
There’s a barrier on the rise
June 29th, 2015 at 11:10 pm
A bandanna AND a bib? This fellow must be a very sloppy eater.
June 30th, 2015 at 7:51 am
Donkey Kong has really let himself go.
November 18th, 2020 at 1:05 am
Donkey Kong’s suede loafers win my heart.
But the striped knee socks, circus vest, and leiderhosen complete the ensemble to great effect when topped off by the handkerchief-under-Civil-War cap.
Also, his expression and body language as he pleads with Martin Landau, “Oh, God! Why do you dress me like this?”
November 18th, 2020 at 1:33 am
@Ryan: “We humans genetically uplifted you to give you the wondrous gift of conscious sapience. Therefore, it’s only fair we get to dress you in cute outfits.”
November 18th, 2020 at 2:50 am
@Ryan: those are cotton gym socks, for sure. Poor ape seems to be dressed from the lost and found box. I’m not sure why he’s got a French Foreign Legion hat on either. Or why his fur’s all patchy.
Or what he and Martin Landau are doing in the company of demonic winged creature — who, judging by the figures on the left, is a flying monkey?
Or how decorative-winged eyeball tentacle fits into it all.
@Tat (15): Belated GSS!