Jan 14
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Art Direction: Nothing attracts readers more than nipples! It’s a proven trend that equals one thing, money! That is unless you draw huge nipples, a huge red women with an insane sparkling mouth wearing sunglasses and a guy running from a giant pinball. Hey! Are you listening?
Published 1978
I give this a Zippy and George!
(Average: 8.89 out of 10)
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January 14th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Coming up – The Banana Splits: After Dark!
January 14th, 2011 at 10:03 am
It’s just so… so… I don’t know what it is! I’m scared!
January 14th, 2011 at 11:27 am
Her teeth, her terrible teeth. She has too many teeth and Zippy has too few. Do you think they could share? (Obviously not in the original: the thought of a nipple with teeth is just bizarre.)
January 14th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
We have found the secret lovechild of Roseanne and Mick Jagger!
January 14th, 2011 at 7:25 pm
I’m sorry. You must have scrambled the image file when uploading it – because on my screen it looked like… Well, it’s rather indescribable. You should probably fix it right away. It looks awful.
January 14th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
WTF? Did Snoop Doggy Dogg get caught in his own personal Hell by the Tall Man from Phantasm?
Michael and Michael, I’m holding you both responsible for this!
January 14th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
“Sequel to”… “by”… “based on an idea by”…
Somewhere, at some point in time, an embittered blurb-copy writer muttered to himself: “Now they’ll notice me.”
January 14th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Best sequel based on another idea ever? I think James Cameron has some competition.
January 15th, 2011 at 3:58 am
If I were an author, I would want no association with something like this … can you just hear Moorcock in a conversation over this book at the table? “No, really, all I did was say something about pinball and then he goes and does this.”
Did this begin with him telling Butterworth, “Really, I don’t deserve any credit!”
I bet Mrs. Butterworth is steaming right now … I’m going to go have pancakes and try to forget this cover.
January 15th, 2011 at 6:26 am
I think I need to go lie down…
January 15th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
I’m not the least bit disturbed by the nipples.
However, I’m SCARED of the person who decided to censor them with THOSE pictures!
January 15th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Summary from Google Books
Earth had already been devastated by the Death Generator.
Then the Red Queen meddled with the very laws of Time to advance her evil ambitions. She transmogrified the planet into a world stalked by decaying ghouls and policed by satanic Bulls, their amplifiers meting out the punishing music of Elton John.
Only the Hawklords could save the remnants of Humanity—only the Hawklords could restore the forces of Good.
Their sole ally Elric the Indecisive; their sole weapon their music; they fought to the death with their awesome enemies, the macabre Queens of Deliria.
I’m certain that I read this, but I don’t remember the cover.
Are we trusting Wikipedia today?
In 1976 he wrote The Time of the Hawklords and founded the publisher Savoy Books with David Britton. In 1977, Butterworth wrote the sequel to …Hawklords, The Queens Of Deliria. Both books were co-credited to Michael Moorcock who has said that his involvement with the first was negligible and he had no involvement with the second at all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Butterworth
January 15th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
“Based on an offhand comment to his agent that Michael Moorcock made over a beer and some wontons”
January 16th, 2011 at 10:36 am
Incidentally, the rockband Queens of the Stone Age was based on something that Michael Moorcock scribbled on a paper napkin.
January 17th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I have read both books and wish I could forget more of them. The cover is far too good for them.
This Hawkwind fan put himself through reading both books again to save others from the pain:
http://www.starfarer.net/hwbooks.html
Going against all laws of the Multiverse the second sequel (in the form of a comic book) is said to be very good. I haven’t found one yet.
February 17th, 2011 at 6:29 am
Dear god I think this cover actually created a new fetish.
August 15th, 2015 at 2:08 am
Looks like she’s had some work done.
On her teeth! Look how even and shiny they are!
November 15th, 2019 at 11:27 am
Richard Branson has the ultimate lsd nightmare: trapped in an M.C. Escher crystal ball with Dame Edna.
November 15th, 2019 at 1:03 pm
Moorcock’s idea. ‘What if Ann-Margret was The Pinball Wizard?’
November 15th, 2019 at 3:57 pm
I’m reminded of the move A New Leaf. A possible match is telling Walter Matthau, “I want, I need, I desire love,” and starts to take off her bikini top. Alarmed, Walter cries, “NO! Don’t let them out!”
I now know how he feels.
November 15th, 2019 at 4:25 pm
Soundtrack by Queens of the Stone Age
November 15th, 2019 at 6:58 pm
You have to give props to Moorcock for not insisting that his name be removed from the cover.
November 16th, 2019 at 5:13 am
Sort of reminds me of The Checkered Demon out of the old Zap Comix.
November 16th, 2019 at 10:00 am
Another terrible cover for Mike M. Really, I’m convinced the art departments snigger at his surname and feel free to indulge their inner stoned 13 year old boys. I hope he at least got paid.
The sequel by based on an idea by based on the band by — was this the inspiration for “Mordred”, the sequel based on the outline, based on, etc? just a few years later?
Also, yes, those puppets are equally as scary as the cover and the nipples. I guess this was before Space Sheep joined GSS.