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Click for full imageMckenzi Comments: Who could forget that part in Dune when Paul uses jazz hands to scare away those pesky desert tapeworms.
Published 1974
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Mckenzi Comments: Who could forget that part in Dune when Paul uses jazz hands to scare away those pesky desert tapeworms.
Published 1974
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April 19th, 2011 at 10:46 am
So HOW big was the one that got away, Paul?
April 19th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Altogether now – “ITS FUN TO STAY AT THE Y M C A!”
Now just the Sandworms ” Y M C A!”
April 19th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Run my fellow Justice League members! I’ll stop them! YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
April 19th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Damn, those are some freakishly long arms.
April 19th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
From the desert planet of Arrakis, it’s Garlic Man!
April 19th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Maybe it’s just the perspective screwing it up, but it looks like those arms are long enough to have his knuckles drag along the ground! Was Paul secretly a gorrilla all this time?
April 19th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Not just crazy long arms but also really short legs.
April 19th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
Fear is the mind killer; the Kwisatz Haderach is not afraid to show off his Shai-Hulud
April 19th, 2011 at 5:07 pm
So I know it is largely due to the pseudo-forced perspective that the sand worms look so tiny…but why would the artist want us to see them as so tiny? Doesn’t it sort of ruin their awesomeness? But even without that, they look very slender, the one in the back is slithering like a snake–worms don’t move like that. The more I look here it seems that the worms were modeled after photographs of snakes.
April 19th, 2011 at 5:56 pm
On the contrary, I think the artist misunderstood the descriptions, and assumed these were your standard-sized worms. Then, when he read the passage where the worms tower over people, he had to draw those tiny people with capes at the bottom right.
If you look VERY closely, there is evidence of a TING! on that blade.
I see this was written in the days when the author used his full name, Frank Herbert Classic.
April 19th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
@Bibliotropic, they told the artist that Paul was a guerrila…
April 19th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!!!
April 20th, 2011 at 4:56 am
His arms are too long and his legs are too short. Of course, this may be an optical illusion created by his cape.
April 21st, 2011 at 8:23 am
“Winner of science fiction’s Hugo and Nebulas awards!” Those are my favourite Hugo and Nebulas awards. The Hugo and Nebulas awards for Crime, Romance and Hypnotise-to-get-slim books are rubbish by comparison.
April 25th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Who the heck is Frank Herbert Classic?
April 26th, 2011 at 7:19 pm
Well, I heard that New Frank Herbert had a rather bitter taste and Diet Frank Herbert doesn’t bear thinking about.
April 26th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
“Frank Herbert Classic – the original and best.”
May 12th, 2011 at 7:47 pm
I think he is now known as “Frank Herbert Zero”
June 24th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Are we meant to be looking at the top of this guy’s head, and is it the cape screwing up the attempt at perspective? No wondr the worm looks confused.
May 13th, 2015 at 5:11 pm
‘Everyone! Listen, everyone! I’ve just circumcised myself! And it’s not so bad! I…’
May 13th, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Ew!
May 14th, 2015 at 8:22 am
@Bibliotropic: That would certainly explain the humanity test they had him take in the beginning.
August 14th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
If it was classic then, would it be vintage now? It would work, too. As far as bad covers go, this is a decent vintage.
August 14th, 2017 at 4:54 pm
@LB: ’74 was a good year!
November 5th, 2017 at 3:21 pm
I found something that helps explain this unusual cover. It is adapted from artwork for an early, failed attempt to make a movie from the novel. The sand worm looks especially like a snake in this version.
Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was slated to direct this version, said he was not interested in being faithful to the novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#Adaptations