[Michael Palin voice-over:]
“But even on the Moon, I wasn’t free from the Curse of the Claw. I looked upon my hands, and to my unspeakable horror I found…”
That moon, always coming home late, smelling of cigarettes and alcohol, covered in cuts and bruises and always riding around on his motorcycle. It’s a rogue I tell ya, a rogue without a cause!
The poor damn illustrator had a real problem here. All the scenes on Earth consist of people talking to each other (boring) — we only see the Moon, where the action happens, at the very end, and even then, the artifact(?)/building(?) in which the action happens is explicitly impossible to photograph, depict, or even describe (you can’t even tell what shape it is). It’s an excellent way of making it seem incredibly alien, but how the heck do you draw a picture of it?
..and those types who flaunt their primate grasping hands by swinging them low while walking, be re-assured we of the crab like pincer hands subtly waft ours about over our heads; it’s just makes more sense.
March 30th, 2011 at 9:05 am
Cover art recycled from Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Hands and I Must Scratch Myself.
March 30th, 2011 at 9:10 am
I’ve got the hair straighteners but … wait… I’ve got a helmet on! Doh!
March 30th, 2011 at 9:22 am
More than impressive…a monument!
March 30th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Is the monument that glowing thing rolling towards him Raiders of the Lost Ark style?
March 30th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Edward Scissorhands…. on da moooooon!
March 30th, 2011 at 11:54 am
Damn, the secateur attachments were not a good buy.
March 30th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
He can’t help it if he has crab claws for hands.
March 30th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Rapper MC Roguemoon is in da house!! Yeah!
March 30th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Is it just me or is moon man flipping us the bird?
March 30th, 2011 at 1:55 pm
“From the typeface that brought you Star Wars!”
March 30th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
ROGUE MOOOOOOOON
March 30th, 2011 at 5:23 pm
[Michael Palin voice-over:]
“But even on the Moon, I wasn’t free from the Curse of the Claw. I looked upon my hands, and to my unspeakable horror I found…”
March 30th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
That moon, always coming home late, smelling of cigarettes and alcohol, covered in cuts and bruises and always riding around on his motorcycle. It’s a rogue I tell ya, a rogue without a cause!
March 30th, 2011 at 8:02 pm
With a sickening feeling in the pit of his stomach, George realized his quest to find the supermodel laden Vogue Moon had gone horribly wrong.
March 30th, 2011 at 11:22 pm
The poor damn illustrator had a real problem here. All the scenes on Earth consist of people talking to each other (boring) — we only see the Moon, where the action happens, at the very end, and even then, the artifact(?)/building(?) in which the action happens is explicitly impossible to photograph, depict, or even describe (you can’t even tell what shape it is). It’s an excellent way of making it seem incredibly alien, but how the heck do you draw a picture of it?
March 31st, 2011 at 7:17 am
..and those types who flaunt their primate grasping hands by swinging them low while walking, be re-assured we of the crab like pincer hands subtly waft ours about over our heads; it’s just makes more sense.
March 31st, 2011 at 8:26 am
(Unnecessary) answer to Nix’ rhetorical question:
By sticking a crab-claw man in front of it?
March 31st, 2011 at 7:53 pm
Alternate blurb:
“Born a Thalidomide victim, he overcame his handicap — and became a space hero!”
April 1st, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Or “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” featuring the Cthulu-looking guy from Futurama!
April 2nd, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Poor astronaut just had a takeaway of rogue moon curry, judging from the dazzling white light coming out of the back of his spacesuit.
June 26th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
Oh come on, this cover’s just awesome.