Jan 31
Christal’s Art Direction: Let’s go for Evil Dead 3, only we’ll place it on The Grid from Tron and give the monsters laser guns! Oh and this time no boomstick, it gave him an unfair advantage.
Published 1984
Amazing! Thanks to Christal!
January 31st, 2011 at 9:11 am
I love the way the guy focuses on the dagger, it’s not like that laser is going to hurt him. -Or maybe he’s just shielding his eyes from the glare of that glowing bat-orc.
January 31st, 2011 at 9:39 am
I like the ‘what happens after 1984?’ because this is obviously a sequel, right? it’s like 1984 pt 2…
January 31st, 2011 at 9:41 am
Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Staying Alive!
The new add-on to the Wii Dance Disco used both the carrot and the stick to encourage the learner.
January 31st, 2011 at 10:15 am
After about 1990 this book was republished as TELE:TEXT, of course.
Judging by the author’s other book titles he should have stuck to geology, unless he really believes Orwell dropped the ball in missing out the winged, laser-wielding lizard man.
January 31st, 2011 at 10:28 am
“No laser can penetrate my silver coloured fake leather jacket!”
January 31st, 2011 at 11:55 am
What happens after 1984?
Follow Big Brother’s ruthless campaign to subjugate the world with the teeth-cleaning remedy known as
ORA-CLE
January 31st, 2011 at 11:57 am
SELECT dagger.weapon
FROM bat.thingy
SELECT laser.zap * 0.5
INSERT elbow.obj
INTO laser.zap
January 31st, 2011 at 11:57 am
Q: What happens after 1984?
A: With this book release: Not much.
January 31st, 2011 at 12:15 pm
That’s Dr Chris Lintott from THE SKY AT NIGHT. On the left, obviously.
ORA:CLE was good, but on the whole I preferred CEE:FAX.
Kevin O’Donnell, Sr must be so proud.
January 31st, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Is that by the author of Reefs, Caverns, and Lava; or by the author of Reefs, the author of Caverns, and the author of Lava a la Vivaldi’s Four Seasons?
This guy’s defense is so effective: “Stop! Leave me alone vicious bat thing or I’ll say stop again!”
January 31st, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I think we’ve all got it backwards. The laser is actually originating from the armpit on the silver jacket, and hitting exactly on the barrel of the monster’s gun.
January 31st, 2011 at 7:39 pm
What happens after 1984?
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1985!
January 31st, 2011 at 11:39 pm
What an excellent cover. That’s *exactly* what using Oracle is like, except the bat-thing is ten times larger than you and you are naked and have your hands tied behind your back.
But it’s just like that anyway.
I like the artist’s use of a Tron-style floor to make it clear where this interaction is taking place.
(What happens after 1984? Well, ‘We have always been at war with DB2.’)
January 31st, 2011 at 11:54 pm
I’m rooting for the bat thing. It has the brains to go into a fight armed.
February 1st, 2011 at 12:38 am
Achievement Unlocked: Armpit Shot 20G
February 1st, 2011 at 11:19 am
@Dead Stuff – New rule should be made! No database queries! 😛
February 1st, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Welcome to another episode of “Find the Toon”!
Tonight, five lucky contestants stand to win a brand-new Toyota — “the car that brakes for nobody” — if they can find the cartoon character hidden in THIS book cover…
Guesses, anyone?
February 2nd, 2011 at 7:11 pm
reminds us mammals how lucky we are that velociraptors didn’t develop opposable thumbs. or lasers.
February 7th, 2011 at 2:20 pm
Is it just me, or does it look like that guy is deflecting the laser blast with his powerful B.O.?
February 10th, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Re: Comment #9
You forgot the more political PRES:TEL…?
As for 1985, that was a Anthony Burgess book, written in the early 80’s, which argued that 1984 was a “Black Comedy”, set during WWII, rather than dystopic science fiction, and whose last part, dealt with a similar dystopic England, a/k/a Tucland, based on 1970’s paranoia about trade unions…
May 15th, 2011 at 4:11 pm
This book shows up on the “Nice job breaking it, Hero” page of TVTropes.org (about half way down the page). No mention of the cover, however.
November 17th, 2013 at 1:06 pm
The Reptile is obviously English and is giving Gil Gerard a sporting chance by firing the gun with its right hand (when it is clearly a southpaw) and by only carrying weapons in two of its four prehensile appendages.
November 18th, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Those are some nifty moves Human Boy is breaking out there. Does this qualify for an Interpretive Dance tag?
January 23rd, 2023 at 2:23 pm
Airport security just tightened up a lot on the Oran-Cleveland run, which I understand the guy there can do in under 12 parsecs.
January 23rd, 2023 at 11:54 pm
So the critter’s flying, glowing, and has both a dagger and a large-bore zap gun.
And he thinks he can win with … I’m not sure if it’s a karate chop or a wave?
Even in a Mylar suit, I don’t fancy his chances since his head’s still out there.
TBH, I think it’s a silver lame disco suit, and he’s not going to be Stayin’ Alive much longer.