Sep 29
Ruby’s Art Direction: I want a truly horrifying banshee creature… no wait – Give me the world’s gayest red rubber man, complete with rubbery genital mound and screaming nipples, then have him vomit himself into creation. Oh, and add in a small red haired child looking confused.
Published 1991
September 29th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Who booked him? The children’s birthday party is ruined!
September 29th, 2011 at 10:21 am
lmao at THX.
I’m not sure any comment can top that! Good Show!
September 29th, 2011 at 10:49 am
THX wins. Best comment evah.
September 29th, 2011 at 10:50 am
And remind never to complain again that fantasy book covers are too generic.
This is about as UN-generic as it gets…
September 29th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
way out there.
September 29th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
From the Amazon.Com site:
“Michael, an adopted child, possesses strange powers. His new parents find earth in his bedroom, containing ancient wood, tools and bones. As he grows up, Michael pleases his parents with gifts from the past, but all goes horribly wrong.”
Yes, Michael. Your gift is horribly, horribly wrong. And horrible.
Good show sir!
September 29th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
“My liquorice is fabulous” – that just floored me. I couldn’t help laughing out loud at work!
And yes, THX was very funny as well.
I propose that we have votes on the funniest comments. Maybe the Admins should consider putting a “Thumbs-up” to click on beside each comment that we could click on. Kind of like what YouTube does.
September 29th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
If the publisher’s intent was to make me never want to pick up this book or even touch it with a ten foot pole, well then, Mission Accomplished. Good Show Sir!
September 29th, 2011 at 6:17 pm
So the kid tried to gift his parents with Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic?
September 29th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
Wow. High-octane nightmare fuel.
I agree, THX’s comment is the funniest.
September 29th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
“Winner of the HIGH TIMES Bad Trip Award”
September 29th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
You can sort of see the influence of Michelangelo’s David. And the LSD.
September 29th, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Aw shucks, you guys. Robert Holdstock is a good writer, though, probably didn’t deserve that cover. Mind you, it is supposed to be a scary book, so…
September 30th, 2011 at 12:33 am
Stop trying to make (the) fetch happen!
September 30th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
@Seth –
Nice Mean Girls reference sir! Well played.
September 30th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Surely that’s a three-sheep cover.
September 30th, 2011 at 8:20 pm
The only thing that is missing is a big TING coming off of plastic-man there. I don’t think that there’s a single bad place that the TING could be placed.
October 1st, 2011 at 6:19 pm
If I were to read that book, I might actually get one of those frilly fabric book-covers to put over it lest people start asking questions I really, really do not think I want to answer. This cover reaches a rare low.
November 19th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
It is for books like this that the metaphorical cover was invented.
It has often been observed that HP Lovecraft’s monsters are far more frightening in written description than when artists try to depict them. Some of the more successful Lovecraft have symbolic covers, rather than literal depictions of scenes within the story.
Mystery novels and horror novels routinely do this, with covers alluding to psychological states, or with objects or locations symbolic of the characters or their demises. It is a good practice for stories with important interior states.
This book might have been better served with a symbolic cover.
February 5th, 2013 at 3:23 pm
I feel pretty, oh so pretty, i feel pretty and witty and gay!!!
May 29th, 2013 at 4:26 am
@Tag Wizard: All right then. If this doesn’t prove the need for the ‘weird pecs’ addition to the tag list…
Pecs don’t come much weirder than THAT.
July 21st, 2017 at 1:45 pm
The full art for this cover is actually very good if you like misty mossy forest scenes with your WTF is that.
http://www.alisoneldred.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Jim-Burns-The-Fetch-13.jpg
July 21st, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Skyrim mods have gone too far.
July 21st, 2017 at 4:41 pm
The creature needs a mask because some things must not be seen. No, I don’t understand the logic either.
July 21st, 2017 at 5:36 pm
‘Mommy! My Twizzler’s turned into Freddie Mercury’
(Truth in advertising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDBORilELCs and this nightmarish one from 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1-tBoADcYU)
July 21st, 2017 at 7:30 pm
That’s more than slightly disgusting. Seriously, why did they let the radiation-created goo monsters out of containment? WHYYY????
July 22nd, 2017 at 3:34 am
I missed this one somehow in my epic marathon through the archives.
Or possibly blocked it out of my memory?
‘scuse me, must go take anti-nausea meds.
October 16th, 2019 at 10:45 pm
His nipples look more like they’re whistling. That, or…something else I shall not state here.