Mar 04
Click for full imageArt Direction: You know what I see this book about a clairvoyant having visions of murders to be compared to? The movie Fame! So we’ll have the title, with that brilliant font, above something like a giant bat and a shadowy figure onlooking. Can’t you just feel the symbolism?
Published 1986
(Average: 7.26 out of 10)
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March 4th, 2011 at 8:56 am
The silhouette is ambiguous. Is he facing forward or back? There’s a 50-50 chance this is another for the BEHIND YOU category.
Another ambiguity: giant bat, or tiny man?
If they’d chosen a smaller point size for the author’s surname, they wouldn’t have needed to overlap the two Os.
March 4th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Don’t close your eyes… unless you’re a bat, because you have that radar thing.
March 4th, 2011 at 9:51 am
“Action Man, the greatest hero of them all! – Bat sold separately.”
March 4th, 2011 at 11:08 am
The shadow also kinda looks like some of our clever editing, for sensitive young eyes.
The bat must have some awesome balls.
March 4th, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Well, if I was having visions of giant smiling bats coming towards me across a red grid field, I wouldn’t want to close my eyes either. Or I’d lay off the pharmaceuticals. One or the other.
March 4th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Don’t mention the bats! The poor bastard will see you soon enough.
March 4th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
“Don’t close your eyes…”
Taglines they didn’t use:
“Keep your eyes open…”
“Keep on truckin’…”
“Keep your eyelids up…”
“Staring contest!!”
March 4th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
I’m more disturbed that this is in the hunk category.
March 5th, 2011 at 7:20 am
“I’m more disturbed that this is in the hunk category.”
Well, for a bat, it’s a pretty ripped bat.
March 5th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Shadows can be… hunky 😛
March 5th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
“If they’d chosen a smaller point size for the author’s surname, they wouldn’t have needed to overlap the two Os.”
The left hand O represents the set of all novels about clairvoyants having visions of murders. The right hand O represents the set of all novels about monster bats devouring tar-covered humans. The overlap is … this novel.
March 6th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Completely randomly and speaking of tar but not tar. What ever happened to gunge? What do kids tv cover their celebrities in?
March 10th, 2011 at 5:07 am
My first reaction was:”This is bat country!” That would be reason enough for me to buy this book if I ever actually encountered it.
April 15th, 2014 at 7:31 pm
‘Don’t close your eyes’…hm…
I can show you a bat
Great, ginormous and keen,
Tell me, when last did Dean
R. have some art so fine?
I can give you a plane
Flat horizons at sunset
Silhouettes will fair get
Us to the bottom line!
A no-good world!
The Vision’s so blasé and flat
No one would tell them ‘No’ or ‘Just so-so’
So give it thorough reaming…
Take it, kiddies!
April 16th, 2014 at 1:52 pm
Well, normally I wouldn’t mind feeling some symbolism; especially when they are a nice, perky, pair of ripe symbolisms, but I can’t see any here at all despite not closing my eyes. What I can see though, has me worried.
A bat with an arsehole for a face? Does he have another one at the other end? If we taped a bunch of them together could we make a bat centipede?