Feb 29
GK Comments: When you point your finger at someone, there are three pointing back at you.
Published 2004
Tag Wizard Comments: We’re on holiday this week. Enjoy these blasts from the past!
GK Comments: When you point your finger at someone, there are three pointing back at you.
Published 2004
Tag Wizard Comments: We’re on holiday this week. Enjoy these blasts from the past!
February 29th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Not so much a book cover, more a gymnastics display.
February 29th, 2012 at 10:04 am
I love this cover. All I can hear in my head is.
“Pow pow pow pow! No I got you! You’re dead!”
February 29th, 2012 at 10:42 am
Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles as a Sid and Marty Krofft live-action TV show from the 1970s?
February 29th, 2012 at 10:53 am
*Cough*
*Cough*
*Cough*
February 29th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Well, ya want as many clashing bright green patterns as possible when you’re express laser jumping in an urban landscape. helps scare away the lasers. obviously.
February 29th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
No, no, no, apprentice, I’ve told you before, hold the double-ended light sabre in *front* of you. You’ll cut yourself in half like that Viking we saw the other day.
February 29th, 2012 at 5:47 pm
Parkour + static electricity + silly camouflage + finger fetishism + Buffy demons = WTF?
February 29th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Is that a large anthropomorphic bug peaking out of his waistband? (See the antennae and eyes?)
February 29th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Alright everybody, on three: JAZZ HANDS!
February 29th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
There’s so much smoke on this cover, people will spontaneously throw water on it.
February 29th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
The Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle appears to be fighting elves made of parsnips.
March 1st, 2012 at 6:26 am
Seriously, this cover is so smoky it ought to have a warning label: “MAY CAUSE LUNG CANCER.”
March 1st, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Somehow, shooting blue laserbeams from your pinkies seems a bit… effete.
March 12th, 2012 at 7:35 pm
George Lucas’ monstrous guy with a double-bladed lightsaber was cooler than this guy’s.
March 23rd, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Wherever there’s trouble GI Joe is there…Yoooo Joe!
January 19th, 2016 at 9:30 pm
Splinter Cell Gecko Force featuring Sam Fisher’s lesser known colleague.
January 20th, 2016 at 10:15 am
Why are his lungs attached to his groin by wires?
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:56 pm
– This cover is so smoky…
– How smoky is it?
– So smoky that Jair Bolsonaro vehemently denies that burning Amazon rainforests are to blame!
July 10th, 2023 at 6:09 pm
You don’t want to invite this guy for tea. When he holds out his pinky, people die.
July 10th, 2023 at 6:35 pm
Not entirely sure what’s happening here but if the orange tube is a water-pipe and the blue stuff squirting on the bottommost guy’s abdomen is cold water, maybe this is Robert de Niro’s swashbuckling plumber from ‘Brazil’.
July 10th, 2023 at 10:37 pm
I only needed to see the fonts (and their many colors) to know the publisher.
Parkour Boy’s helmet makes him look like an ape.
Where is that red beam coming from/going to? If it’s just a laser, not a double lightsaber, someone’s a bad shot.
@Tat: I haven’t seen “Brazil” for a few years, but I don’t recall parsnip-elf-mutants in it. Maybe they were in a cut scene, in which case I like your idea.
July 10th, 2023 at 11:30 pm
His costume was cleverly designed to blend in on the Planet Covered with Iguanas, but thanks to a routing error he was sent to the Pollution Goblin planet instead.
July 11th, 2023 at 12:27 am
Pointy 8 fingers 2 thumbs of death guy has trained for this exact moment his entire life and will stop this fool right in his tracks.
July 11th, 2023 at 1:14 am
I was too distracted by the “A” that was underlined 4 times (probably to help balance out “Trilogy” which had to be smaller to get all that BAEN-y illustrate-y goodness onto the cover) to take any notice of the parsnips, but now that I’ve seen them, I’ll obsess about them for a while…
Completely forgot that De Nero was in “Brazil”, which means it’s time to rewatch!
July 11th, 2023 at 8:34 pm
@fred: Yeah, in his position, I’d be pointing my laser pinkie at the parsnip he’s about to land on.
@Emster: If it’s a trilogy, why not 3 lines under the A?
Don’t drink tea with this guy, he’ll zap your ceiling or you, depending on how he holds his cup.
The tiny pinkie lasers do seem so effete for such a putatively manly man.
Now, here’s a Cobra who is SUPER manly and has a big gun. I will accept no other.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235138/
(First saw him in 2nd generation VHS in Japanese, no dub, no sub. Still loved it.)
No parsnips, smokin’ a stogie as he takes on evil, plenty of hot women, and a BIG weapon that’s half his left arm.
July 13th, 2023 at 7:09 pm
Parsnip-elf mutants? That takes me back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAbrvrYeSvA
So this is a radical re-imagining of Rupert Bear? Better call Sir Paul…
July 14th, 2023 at 4:30 am
@Tat: hears elderly man’s voice saying “for fuck’s sake” in Liverpool accent
Was the artist scared by this as a kid 50 years ago, or on YouTube at the time of painting?
Really, being as this is in spaaaaace, these parsnips would have been more alien-y if they were blue. But I guess that wouldn’t fit in with the overall beige and green-ness of it all.