Apr 13
Jeremy’s Art Direction: We need the most evil guy ever. Ever! And the goofiest looking assassin you can muster!
Published 1982
Jeremy’s Art Direction: We need the most evil guy ever. Ever! And the goofiest looking assassin you can muster!
Published 1982
April 13th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Is that… is that Gary Glitter?
April 13th, 2012 at 10:47 am
The Universe’s Most Evil Being deserves the Universe’s Most Evil Lollipop.
April 13th, 2012 at 11:17 am
The blurb copy suggests that hiring ultimate assassins is expensive (unsurprisingly)…
But it omits the assassin’s actual kill fee — mentioned in the text of the novel — which in my humble opinion would’ve made for an even better blurb:
When the Universe’s most evil being becomes the target of the ultimate assassin, will an entire planet pay the price of 100,000 gazillion space-dollars?
April 13th, 2012 at 11:18 am
When the Universe’s most evil being becomes the target of the ultimate assassin, will an entire planet pay if… THE PRICE IS RIGHT!
April 13th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
You can tell he’s pretty evil because of his pointy hair.
April 13th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Is that Lwaxana Troi in the lower right?
April 13th, 2012 at 6:33 pm
Random “Spock Eyebrow” sighting.
April 13th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Hey, it’s Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan! (Why yes, I read cheeseball comics in my youth)
Also … his Staff of Evil is oddly jaunty. The tips of the pentacle curl a bit, and it puts one in mind of that starfish friend of Spongebob Squarepants getting ready to turn a cartwheel.
April 14th, 2012 at 4:57 am
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the assassin. Holy crap, where to even start.
April 14th, 2012 at 7:11 am
Yes, cos that’s something assassins are known for – big hats and flamboyant capes.
He’s like the Anti-Ninja.
April 14th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
For a moment, I thought the author of my physics textbook churned out fiction as well.
April 14th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Although Lwaxana the Raven-haired Ventriloquist did her utmost to keep her lips from moving as she put the Priest puppet through his routine, the looming figure of Most Evil Casting Director Ever scowling down at her had a devastating effect on her performance. And if only the guy hired to play the Klansman would stop practicing with his toy rifle!
April 14th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
I think the evil guy’s kind of hot, pointy hair and all.
There is a review of this book here. Apparently, it’s just as silly as it looks.
April 16th, 2012 at 1:32 am
Will I be okay if I skipped over Walpurgis I and II?
April 16th, 2012 at 1:51 pm
@Lilah: Thanks for the review link…
Oh, lord, Planet of the Satanists? Is that why Lwaxana Troi is done up like an 18th century lady getting her portrait painted as the goddess Diana?
April 16th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
I owned this book long ago. It was disturbing, and I’m not talking about the cover art.
May 22nd, 2012 at 8:32 pm
It’s funny how the shape of the assassin’s gun matches his shark’s-fin-helmet. I think his gauntlets are shark-fin-shaped as well.
March 13th, 2014 at 3:30 pm
No one escapes from… THE POPE ASSASSIN.
May 9th, 2017 at 7:43 am
The return of THE BISHOP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDnE-5lD7w8
January 3rd, 2024 at 2:12 pm
No one expects the Intergalactic Spanish Inquisition.
I wonder if Hammer ever considered doing a devil worship in space movie after Star Wars hit it big. Might have saved the studio at that time.
January 4th, 2024 at 12:57 am
@fred: I don’t know why they didn’t, what with all the Satan-in-space movies we’ve had since.
I mean, it’d have had late-T.Baker-style special effects, but we expected that sort of thing back then.