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Click for full imageCraig Comments: Best use for a catman? Disco Slave! Don’t forget your feathers and white go-go boots!
Published 1984
(Average: 7.79 out of 10)
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Craig Comments: Best use for a catman? Disco Slave! Don’t forget your feathers and white go-go boots!
Published 1984
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April 20th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Clever how the cage breaks out of the frame at the top….. sort of..
April 20th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Hi-diddly-ho, neighborino! The first new Flanders novel in years!
April 20th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
At first glance I thought she was lifting up the hem of her skirt for that thing.
“Oh yeah, show a little leg, Native American Wonder Woman! I’ve been locked in this cage a long time.”
April 20th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
If a catman is in a birdcage, and the birdcage isn’t made of iron, is it still ironic?
April 20th, 2011 at 5:02 pm
@THX, I’m still struggling to breath laughing at the idea of a Flanders novel. Hey Homer, would you and Marge care to come over for a friendly game of Empire?
April 20th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
As “flandry” is in quotes, I assume it’s a euphemism. As in:
How was the book?
It was a bit, you know, “flandry”.
April 20th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Who here is not wondering at the cover of the book seen on the right with the title “Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!”?
April 20th, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Oh and as for this one, is she saying, to pinch from Airplane!
“I take my coffee like I take my catmen: black.”
April 21st, 2011 at 2:05 am
@Smith: This does it.
(Were the Hoka books not deliberate comedy, I’d probably submit the cover of its previous printing Earthman’s Burden hereabouts.)
April 21st, 2011 at 2:07 am
Or, er, not. Try again.
April 21st, 2011 at 5:53 am
Her name’s Diana and she looks like Wonder Woman…Funny that. And what does “Flandry” mean and why is it in quotes?
April 21st, 2011 at 8:26 am
If they can source regular-sized ‘E’s for ‘GAME’ why can’t they for ‘EMPIRE’? Did the supply of regular-sized dry up, and they had to make do with mega?
April 21st, 2011 at 4:39 pm
@Adam: I believe that the mighty mighty E’s are intended to be representative of Doric columns, and therefore indicative of a mighty EmpirE like RomE or GreecE.
April 22nd, 2011 at 12:13 am
In the name of Hera, dance in my 60’s club and do it in a cage hanging on nothing!
April 22nd, 2011 at 4:44 am
The cage is hanging from the I in Empire.
April 25th, 2011 at 9:43 pm
“The first new Flandry novel in years!”
Do I detect a note of resentment from the copy editor…?
June 24th, 2011 at 3:02 am
Is Diana as round heeled as her father?
August 10th, 2011 at 2:10 am
I thot I saw a puddy tat! …*waggles eyebrows*…
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:17 pm
‘So now tell me what you want, what you really really want.’
‘Well I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want…is to be LET OUT OF THIS BLOODY CAGE!’
August 25th, 2015 at 3:03 am
That man seems to have met with an unfortunate accident that left him looking like a cross between a catperson and a monkey. The woman doesn’t seem very understanding.
January 4th, 2016 at 2:24 pm
The Last Days Of Disco
October 28th, 2017 at 5:17 am
So shiny!
Border within border!
The cage hook, breaking frame, suspended from the title!
Lace up white go-go boots on a dominatrix!
This book cover has EVERYTHING! (/Stefon)
The Amazon (how appropriate) blurb says she has a “faithful Tigery companion”. So she’s keeping her companion in a cage??
June 15th, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Sir Dominic Flandry’s little girl was into Marvel Superhero Cosplay but the publishers took legal advice on the cover-art.
(Apparently, this book was modelled on Kipling, so presumably that’s Shere Khan rather than a supermarket own-brand T’Challa).
June 15th, 2018 at 5:05 pm
@Tat: It’s Shere Khan with Cher Can’t.
June 15th, 2018 at 11:39 pm
I like how one of our ratings here is “That belongs in a gold leaf picture frame”.
And here it is.
@Tor: GSS!! I award you one internet. Sorry about the toxic bits.
Also your comment got a chuckle from Mr. ex-n, which is like a standing ovation from average folk. You really did sum this cover up perfectly.
Mr. xn also joins me in wondering why this cover is so completely 60s when the book was published in ’84. The first thing he said was “Go-go boots?”
@Tat: pushes glasses up nose Well, actually, Wonder Woman is a DC property, not Marvel.
Of course, this is from (say it with me)
BAEN! stripper music and growling
June 15th, 2018 at 11:55 pm
Someone needs to find a dead-tree version of this book.
It’s right up there with Hrossak:Tarakoosh! or whatever that one was for Gibberish Title.
https://www.amazon.com/Allerleirauh-Chantal-Gadoury-ebook/dp/B078KM6Y4T/?_bbid=10147728
I don’t think you can say that title unless you’ve got a stonking great sinus infection and nasal congestion, or you’ve recently been punched in the nose by an expert.
And the main character’s going by that? How can people even talk to or about her?
(The author, I note, is near thirty, a college graduate, and still lives with her mother. One of the rave reviews is from her aunt.)
June 16th, 2018 at 12:30 am
If you’re Poul Anderson, it’s “hoka, hoka, hoka!”
If you’re a Muppet, it’s “wakka-wakka-wakka!”
If you’re Chewbacca, it’s “wooka-wooka-wooka!”
If you’re a betting man, it’s “poka-poka-poka!”
If you hate Batman, it’s “Joka-Joka-Joka!”
If you have grease stains, it’s “soaka-soaka-soaka!”
You know… I really think I could go on like this forever.
June 16th, 2018 at 12:44 am
If you’re a basket, it’s “wicka-wicka-wicka..”
If you crave Twinkies, it’s “toka-toka-toka…”
If you’re a toy, it’s “Tonka-Tonka-Tonka…”
Shut up, brain. Shut up, shut up.
June 16th, 2018 at 3:50 am
Hush up, Mellie, or we’ll be forced to put on our go-go boots and lock you in a cage. With a gag. And not in a fun way, either.
June 16th, 2018 at 12:27 pm
Does the game of Empire have isometric 3D like its predecessor? And speech quotes from the movie, too?
June 16th, 2018 at 12:29 pm
Wait a sec… On the left: “Earthman’s…” What? The curiosity is eating me up inside!
June 16th, 2018 at 12:31 pm
It’s OK, I found it – Earthman’s Burden. And that cover: multiple bear wielding opportunities…
June 16th, 2018 at 11:31 pm
@THX (30): Ooh, that is a classic video game callback, sir. I had the game of Empire on my Atari. No catmen, just speeders.
I’m pretty sure we’ve had a cover of one of the Hoka books here, which means it could use the shiny new “bear-wielding” tag. I’ve flagged a couple others lately but no love from Tag Wiz. 🙁
June 16th, 2018 at 11:44 pm
Bear-wielding?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=9740#comment-773786
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4801#comment-773787
(Looking for these made me wonder just how many times Baen’s repackaged (har) Flandry.)
June 16th, 2018 at 11:45 pm
And more bear-wielding?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4270
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12747#comments
June 16th, 2018 at 11:45 pm
And more?
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=9740#comment-773786
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4801#comment-773787
(Looking for these made me wonder just how many times Baen’s repackaged (har) Flandry.)
June 17th, 2018 at 9:20 am
So the Game of Empire is…kinky?
GSS@22: maybe he’s loyal because she lets him out of the cage?
June 19th, 2018 at 12:51 am
TW: Booties! She wears booties with every outfit.
(I almost typed “boobies”)
June 30th, 2018 at 12:30 pm
“He was a catman in a cage.
She was the last surviving member of an Abba tribute band.
Together, they were the new ‘Flandry’.”