It’s that time of the year again where people might just get a longer weekend! And that usually means an honourable mentions but unfortunately I have been pretty ill this week and have been sitting with some soup while watching TV and reading a few books!
Anyway, instead I give you a MisterBOB mega post! He’s sent in enough covers to start a book shop so here’s a few to keep your weekend going! Enjoy your holiday weekend!
MisterBob Comments: A spaceman looks out his window and sees the face of GOD!
Published 1986
MisterBOB comments: Please, do not show that teenagers can time travel by putting a plastic bag on their head.
Published 1989
MisterBOB Comments: A particolored unicorn, so start with where the horn is, as the rest is just a horse…
Published 1987
April 22nd, 2011 at 12:40 pm
That first one:
Voice from radio: “Luke, you switched off your targeting computer! What’s wrong?”
April 22nd, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The rest may just be a horse, but it’s a horse of a different color!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:07 pm
For the last one: That horse looks like it has a huge tree branch for a tail.
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:05 pm
If my parents named me Piswyck I don’t think I would have survived grade school.
April 22nd, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Hope you feel better soon!
April 22nd, 2011 at 11:24 pm
The Bones of God: I like the way the fontmeister has carefully curved all the type to JUST avoid the stuck-on price label.
Unicorn: I was going to mock the obviously made-up word “particolored”… until I looked it up and found it’s a real word. I’ll just have to mock the cover art instead. Er, what a ridiculous mane! And, er, just look at those puffed sleeves.
April 23rd, 2011 at 4:31 am
Is that Obi-Wan on the first one?
April 25th, 2011 at 8:51 am
In the first one, is the pilot telling the old man “Damned space bums! I never asked you to wash my windscreen.”
April 25th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
The cover from A Tale of Time City MIGHT be recycled from an edition of The Virgin Suicides where the cover artist mistakenly believed plastic bags were involved.
April 25th, 2011 at 9:46 pm
“Was he a madman — or a Messiah?”
THE GLENN BECK STORY
June 13th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
A Tale of Time City does involve anti-radiation suits similar to clingfilm. (I wonder how many got used for fetish wear after the War Department handed them out>) aLso a time lady and unstable eras and Timey Wimeys and stuff. I recommend ‘Archers Goon’ by the same author, even though now the gas board, water board, British Telecom etc. are part of history it makes bugger all sense.
January 6th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
The cover of The Particolored Unicorn is showing some serious abuse of the colors blue and purple. And what’s with Prince Charming’s bizarre combo of superpadded fancy Renaissance fair doublet and fluffy ‘seventies side-part?
The castle in the background makes no sense in terms of scale, proportion, placement, or architecture. What are all those towers for? How would people get up them?
September 23rd, 2013 at 2:15 am
BoG: if that’s meant to be the Almighty’s reflection on the spaceship’s countertop, why does it look so much like a foetus wearing a cassock?
I can’t even start to understand the perspective/alien geometry of that space craft. What must it look like from the outside?
September 23rd, 2013 at 5:02 am
Thanks, MrBOB!
1. “The Gones of Bod” would sound just as good, maybe better.
2. a. Is that a giant blue tennis ball?
b. Speaking of insane architecture, check out that tower—with all the tiny people
on the veranda!
c. Will the planet-sized green superball crush everything in its path?
3. Love, power, adventure . . . just what order should they be in?
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:35 am
PU: The more that I look at it, the more alien seems to me to be that castle. The castle appears to be swaddled in candy floss pouring out of a sally-port that can’t be less than 60 metres high. And the port itself is dark on the inside, implying that there is a ceiling somewhere above it. Yet, smack in the middle, there is the main body of the castle itself. To the back, there’s a tower apparently floating in midair, and another down and to the left that’s…there, really, there isn’t more to it.
March 23rd, 2015 at 10:40 am
Edit: I stand corrected, that’s supposed to be man-eating gelatin around Castle Neuschwanstein.
March 8th, 2016 at 2:37 pm
“Compound interest in the amusingly minging intersexual facility in Grell Citi”
Sheeple Night
slow author of All Fawn Dot
FETH BONES GOOD
Was she a Meishan or a madam?
ATOMIC TY, A LEFTIE
windy Nanae Jones
“CHU RIDE” COLON PORN ATTIRE
for an adventurous quest of love ordeal in which a pinchy companion gets wang pkt on your windy tail and forces his unicorn in there
March 28th, 2016 at 11:56 am
‘I’m in my mom’s spaceship. Vroom, vroom.’
‘Get out o’ me spaceship!’
‘Uhn…’
STARRING:
Messiah Madman as Tish Simmonds
God Bones as Tish Simmonds’ Mum
Car as Spaceship
Thank u for watchin g
April 29th, 2022 at 6:39 pm
A Jedi traffic warden, a bag lady, and a punk unicorn walk into a bar.
April 29th, 2022 at 7:10 pm
1: “Do you want to go to the toilet?”
2: Freshest storytelling this side of your packed lunch.
3: Here to par-tay!
April 30th, 2022 at 2:43 am
I guess as long as it’s not The Boner or God or The Boned of God, I’m okay with it.
April 30th, 2022 at 3:21 am
1. Ford was waiting a long time for anyone to stop and give him a lift.
2. Anything to stop her from singing ‘Lovefool’ again.
3. “Piswyck’? Like the doublet and hose weren’t whimsical enough for a guy with a 60s businessman haircut?
April 30th, 2022 at 7:26 am
3. The tops of his boots seem to have aploded. Bet the sleeves are next.
April 30th, 2022 at 10:25 pm
1. Having the spirit of your mystical tutor show up to provide advice is a normally a good thing, but not when you’re watching furry porn on your ship’s computer.
2. Remember to properly wrap your teens to maintain freshness and prevent spoilage during time travel.
3. Frankencorn.
Personally, I don’t think anyone actually built that castle: it probably was created by a wizard as adventurer-bait.
April 30th, 2022 at 10:50 pm
@BC: We’ll never know about the rest of his boots, since this is another artist who thinks feet (and hooves) are hard to draw.
What d’you reckon will ‘splode third — his hairdo or the unicorn’s? Or the unicorn’s! tail?
I would like to lobby for the “horses with hairstyles” tag. That mane and tail are definitely styled. Unless the upraised tail is because the unicorn! is, er, fertilizing the flowers.
May 1st, 2022 at 8:16 am
“What happened to you?”
“Fell into the hands of a bunch of demented makeup artists and hair stylists. But what happened to _you_?”
“Demented Renaissance Faire costumers.”
May 1st, 2022 at 12:30 pm
3. The castle proportions are wacky. Either it’s an almost vertical ascent to the entrance or 2/3’s of it is hidden in the mist, making it taller than some of the towers.
May 1st, 2022 at 10:54 pm
@fred: Maybe it’s partially hidden on the other side of the hill? Which makes no sense, castles are built on top of hills, but then again … this cover makes no sense.
Either that or it’s not real and is manifested by the (checks notes) man-eating gelatin. Gelatin is famous for not being a good building material.
@Bruce: I think he was one of the founders of the SCA, so you’re not far wrong.