Aug 26
Click for full imageJami Comments: It’s like Sarek Of Vulcan has somehow been crossed with a stereotypical hero in a western version of a Japanese movie. Meanwhile bubble headed bobbies are threatening him with roman candles.
Published 1985
(Average: 6.47 out of 10)
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August 26th, 2011 at 9:55 am
The shocking truth behind David Carradine’s untimely demise!
August 26th, 2011 at 10:38 am
“Zen and martial arts in space!”
Love that tagline.
Zero-G martial arts does actually sound like a promising topic…
August 26th, 2011 at 11:08 am
“Well, well, well! If it isn’t our old pal Harry Potter!”
“I can’t believe it! You’re those bullies from Slytherin! Why are you dressed up as coppers??”
“No tricks up the sleeve! When you had us thrown out of Hogwarts, we went looking for jobs — and Muggler society made us coppers instead of wizards. Coppers with magical nightsticks!”
“Lemme go!”
“Sorry, Harry old pal! This is the New Britain under David Cameron, so in the name of law and order we’re going to beat you senseless!”
August 26th, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Storm troopers with jazz hands meet a disturbingly long-toed Quentin Crisp. In space.
August 26th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
“You picked the wrong classical conductors class to zen into… samurai!”
August 26th, 2011 at 1:43 pm
That control room must be pretty advanced! The panel in the left foreground appears to have a button ON TOP OF ANOTHER BUTTON!!!
August 26th, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Also, the way that tagline is arranged makes it look like a quote:
“The stunning climax to the KENSHO novels”
-Zen and Martial Arts in Space
I so want to live in a world where “Zen and Martial Arts in Space” is the name of a magazine.
August 26th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I just wonder what the other covers in the series look like.
August 26th, 2011 at 5:48 pm
But old levitating Sean Penn is holding a katana, so shouldn’t the title be ‘Katana’erer”? Or is it because he’s about to go all Mifune on those electro-wanded Paul Blarts?
And could someone let some air out of that W before it explodes?
September 8th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
The samurai looks rather relaxed. Look at how his left hand lazily sits atop his knee. Also, while the sticks nearest the warrior look like they’re shooting lightening, the one at the very bottom of the page looks like it’s shooting Lucky Charms!
September 10th, 2011 at 6:27 am
That foot. My god, THAT FOOT. I’ll be charitable and assume his legs are crossed underneath that exercise in drapery, but even so that foot is going to give me nightmares. It looks like it wants to strangle a Baggins.
October 18th, 2011 at 12:11 am
I see the distinct influence of many icons of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
August 3rd, 2013 at 7:16 pm
Joke’s on Fantastic Sam Kamigata there. Look at his expression! He’s 98% loaded into reality when he gets caught in the Spinning Beach Ball of Death and is helpless as the Bobbies for Apple ™ swoop down on him.
August 14th, 2015 at 12:19 am
“Please excuse me, that was a rather pungent curry. Oh dear, my continual wind is lifting me quite off the ground!”
“That’s alright Guv. We’ve got our breathing helmets on.”
August 25th, 2015 at 4:20 am
@SteveAsat: Now that you mention it, his foot does look like a hand.
As for those bobbies: “My goodness, there seems to be a robed man appearing in midair!”
“Blimey, old chap, you’re right!”
“We’ll just shock him then, shall we?”
October 29th, 2021 at 3:23 pm
Exactly which English football club emblems are the guards festooned with?
October 29th, 2021 at 5:04 pm
Zen feet in space are hard to draw. By the way, another bad scabbard placement as well.
October 30th, 2021 at 2:01 am
I feel like I’ve been hit upside the head with a truncheon after reading the back cover. Pretentious and overblown, plus cultural appropriation, much?
This cover is apparently from the POV of the 4th bobby, looking past his stick. Maybe Earth should have sent some American cops with (laser) guns to take out weird-foot samurai.
@BC: Maybe he never uses the scabbard. Because he can’t, with it in that position.
October 30th, 2021 at 6:20 pm
“Alright, you – shut your space-hole and come quietly.”
Showdown at the Mondrian art factory.
October 31st, 2021 at 1:09 am
@Bruce: I think it’s the Mondrian furniture factory — those look like tables or desks. Or at least it’s the Mondrian floating art factory; maybe the future has anti-gravity art.
@Tag W: does this count as “bubble helmet”?
Doesn’t it look like weirdly-toed samurai dude is working on growing out a mullet?
October 31st, 2021 at 1:22 am
@GSS ex-noob: well, it has anti-gravity samurai…
July 30th, 2023 at 3:43 am
I try to wrap my head around this cover and all I come up with is: weirdest year end performance review ever.