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April 7th, 2011 at 8:54 am
You’ve heard of “Wiggers”, white dudes trying to “act black”… now witness the “Schmative American”, a white dude trying to pass for Native American.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:55 am
Note the soulful, longing look the alien in the background is giving him… and how the soundtrack suddenly plays the cheesy 80s song “Somewhere! Love will find you!…”
Uh-oh.
April 7th, 2011 at 8:59 am
“Her fiction offers intelligence and passion in abundance” — note how the quote contains no full stop (.)… always an ominous sign.
What was the full quote? Who knows? Could be anything. Such as:
A) “Her fiction offers intelligence and passion in abundance but little else.”
B) “Her fiction offers intelligence and passion in abundance comparable to Ayn Rand.”
C) “Her fiction offers intelligence and passion in abundance — but I kid.”
April 7th, 2011 at 9:02 am
I have that book on the TBR. MacAvoy’s Lens of the World fantasy trilogy is excellent, so I have hopes for it.
OTOH, it’s a little worrying that the mullet still exists thousands of years in the future…
April 7th, 2011 at 9:26 am
[He-Man voice] “I HAVE THE POWWERRR MULLEEET!!!”
April 7th, 2011 at 10:18 am
How many more times? BEHIND YOU!!!
Surely panto season is long over.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:21 am
The look on the guy behind says it all. It’s the, “Why did I walk behind him, now all I can look at is his ASS!” Look.
April 7th, 2011 at 10:37 am
The guy who knocked you down and stole your sonic hedge trimmer looked like WHAT?!?
April 7th, 2011 at 10:50 am
The Third Eagle…
I can only assume it’s somewhere below the first and second one in the picture.
April 7th, 2011 at 12:11 pm
I’m distracted by that…thing in the background.
April 7th, 2011 at 1:01 pm
The shadows of his thighs showing through his loincloth don’t match his actual thighs. Is this loincloth a prism?
Not that I’m staring, you understand.
April 7th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
It’s just like that Mountain Dew commercial! “You got one too,” lifts up shirt showing huge eagle tattoo on chest
April 7th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
The chap behind Mr Eagle also has a tattoo on his body – of himself, only taller.
(thanks to Steven Wright)
April 7th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
He looks like Val Kilmer as Madmartigan from Willow, after hitting some major steroids, on his way to a “pow wow” in a “tee-pee” (cuz of course ALL Native American tribes had pow-wows in tee-pees) to celebrate his 1/32 Native American heritage and commune with the “Great Spirit” in the “Happy Hunting Ground”–in other words getting high on peyote while watching Dances with Wolves.
April 7th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Please note that the figures in the bottom right corner appear to be apes in burkas. Why is that okay?? Also, is he holding a toy spaceship?
April 7th, 2011 at 5:57 pm
is that a Mangalore from The Fifth Element behind him?
April 7th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
They couldn’t get an actual body model with Native American heritage … I don’t see why this is an issue considering the models for the others on the cover, but it hindered their accuracy.
April 7th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Oh hey dude you’ve got your harlequin in my spec fic
April 8th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
…back cover reads …
” a brilliant and dynamic work painted on a canvas the size of the universe “
April 9th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Sounds like a pretty big canvas
April 9th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
That fat alien on the 4-wheeler is gonna have a lawsuit on his hands after the karate student he ran over gets up.
Also, is the THIRD EAGLE tattooed directly onto his junk?
April 11th, 2011 at 2:25 am
I see two eagles, but where is the third?
April 11th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
I think the aliens about to say:
You, human, where you get assless loincloth?
He definitely look smitten
April 14th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
If you look closer than I ever wanted to have to look at a loin cloth, you can just see the yellow outline of the third eagle just above the top of the cloth.
April 29th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Whitney – That is because he is Charlton Heston on the planet of the apes. These are simply middle-eastern apes.
June 21st, 2011 at 12:36 pm
I do NOT want to know where that third eagle is tatood
May 16th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
I think:
1. The artist painted Third Eagle Hangs Left with his left leg on backward. Quadriceps do not separate like that, hamstrings do.
2. We need a Space Sheep for the grey…person…in back.
May 18th, 2013 at 11:37 am
I looked this up. In case you were wondering, “Can this book *really* be about a Native American spaceman with an eagle tattooed you-know-where?â€- the answer is yes. Yes, it is.
October 23rd, 2013 at 6:29 pm
This man appears to be carrying a combination crossbow/pizza cutter. Surely this book takes place on a planet where pizzas run wild through the forests, and only the bravest pizza hunters dare face them alone.
August 25th, 2015 at 2:41 am
Hey, man, your ass is being ogled by an alien ogre. You might want to change clothes.
October 9th, 2015 at 4:04 pm
1. This cover depicts the main characters very accurately.
2. Personally, I find nothing bad about it, but they I lived through the 1980’s.
3. The book, while not a masterpiece, is quite readable.
October 9th, 2015 at 4:48 pm
4. Eagles!
October 9th, 2015 at 11:07 pm
Like Bastiaan, I’ve read this book. It even had the very same cover art and all. Yep, it depicts the contents accurately, without doing them justice. It’s certainly a better book than you might think. I’ve read several books by R.A. MacAvoy, and they’ve all been pretty good. Come to think of it, most of them have had ridiculous covers, too.
And, yep, the third eagle is tattooed exactly where you think.
January 11th, 2017 at 7:31 am
As per the mouseover text, yes. You can see the top of his third eagle. It’s yellow. You’d see more of it if his loincloth wasn’t hiked up weird in the middle, which… probably was an order to the artist. Maybe that’s why his thigh shadows and the loincloth don’t match.
January 11th, 2017 at 1:39 pm
Thanks to this book, we now have ‘eagle’ as a euphemism for penis.
January 13th, 2017 at 3:47 am
Is it like Tolkien – eagles save everyone?
March 31st, 2017 at 8:04 pm
He’s got quite an innie for his navel.
April 3rd, 2017 at 3:52 am
So he’s The Third Eagle in the way Captain Hammer is his hammer.
July 25th, 2017 at 5:08 am
So the third eagle is on his little birdie? And the golem looks quite bemused by the Marx/Bolton ‘do the guy’s sporting.