Mar 21
Click for full imageLibraryMan Comments: OK man…I’m coming out…just…don’t shoot
Published 1985
(Average: 7.79 out of 10)
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LibraryMan Comments: OK man…I’m coming out…just…don’t shoot
Published 1985
(Average: 7.79 out of 10)Loading...
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March 21st, 2012 at 10:39 am
Sing us a song, you’re soldier man!
Sing like the cobras all hiss,
For you are a new kind of soldier man,
And you’ve got your gun at my wrist!
Lah, diddy-ah-dah, dah-daaha, dah-dah…
March 21st, 2012 at 10:55 am
Crime is the disease… and Alan Tracy is the cure!
March 21st, 2012 at 11:30 am
Jim was not impressed with his surprise party, and even less excited about what jumped out of his cake.
March 21st, 2012 at 12:34 pm
“He was a new kind of soldier, created for a new kind of war”… then some guy in a bad hat shot him. A very short story.
March 21st, 2012 at 12:50 pm
Oh wow. I’ve actually seen that cover in my parent’s house. Thanks for the memory!
March 21st, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Dude, the Beast from “Krull” is about to blast your ass into next Tuesday.
March 21st, 2012 at 2:53 pm
CO8Ra…Carbon Octoxide and Radium…the stuff that makes up the blue atmosphere, maybe?
March 21st, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Behind you!
I am liking the pseudo-embossing. It must be pseudo- because the creature from the black lagoon has his hands in front of the lettering.
March 21st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Hey, I never noticed your tooltips before. They’re funny.
(If you scroll over the book image and pause, a little dialogue box eventually comes up with a humorous description of the book. Doesn’t work on phones or pads, which is probably partly why I never noticed them before.)
I’m glad someone mentioned the hat. It looks like he’s wearing a toddler’s bike helmet painted blue, pushed forward over his forehead in a jaunty manner.
The alien looks like it’s constructed of sheets of foam rubber glued together, like a sort of Mardi Gras puppet costume, and it looks like it’s singing opera.
“RIIIII-diiii Pagli-AAAA-ccio!”
March 21st, 2012 at 3:49 pm
When you consider that this is from Baen, it actually shows remarkable restraint.
March 21st, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Is the “retro” styling of the cover intentional? The suit and rifle belong on a 1955 cover, not in 1985…
March 21st, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Background monster: ‘BEEEEER!’
I love Cobra.
March 21st, 2012 at 9:05 pm
Holy crap! There have been zany tooltips all this time?
March 21st, 2012 at 9:35 pm
Kwyjor: Looks like you’ll have to go back and check out every entry again!
March 22nd, 2012 at 3:11 am
Hey, Mr. Beefcake Failure, I think that large shouting ghost guy wants his scalp back now.
April 1st, 2012 at 7:54 am
Snargl didn’t really get the YMCA memo. So we shot him.
May 14th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
So that’s what Cobra Commander looks like without his mask!
February 21st, 2013 at 8:05 pm
I know that Michael Palin enjoys traveling, but I had no idea that he’s been to other planets.
September 7th, 2013 at 10:42 pm
@TW: surely, this deserves the ‘monstrous humanoid’ tag?
Also, it appears to have a moon between the mountains and Bat-Domingo there.
September 8th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Yes, this book was released the same year as the Sylvester Stallone movie COBRA.
“Alien crime is a disease. He’s the cure. Sylvester Stallone is… COBRA. The cop with a silly hat… and a big gun.”
September 9th, 2013 at 10:00 am
Cheers, Stuff!