May 28
Click for full imageGood Show Sir’s Art Direction: When bikers talk to each other they usually never take off their helmets right? Well have one on there twiddling his thumbs like he’s trying to borrow 20p to buy some sweets at the school tuck-shop!
Published 1983 (maybe)
(Average: 7.21 out of 10)
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(9.27 out of 10)
May 28th, 2012 at 9:34 am
The artist, with the chap in green, has convincingly captured the fear all bikers feel when The Mystic Bike Shagger appears and starts to undo his belt.
May 28th, 2012 at 9:42 am
The future’s crap … the future’s orange.
May 28th, 2012 at 10:09 am
“Geez, I’m trying to have a slash in peace here!”
May 28th, 2012 at 11:04 am
Babylon 5 called. They want their logo back.
May 28th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
@Smith: Funny!
I suppose it’s possible glove-twiddler will remove the helmet to reveal — gasp — an attractive young woman with perfectly brushed hair.
May 28th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
Biker 1: Hey guys, want to see something that goes faster than your bike *ziiiiiiip*
Bikker 2: God no! I’m outta here!
May 28th, 2012 at 10:37 pm
TOP GEAR’s The Stig meets BABYLON FIVE’s 5 meets… Mickey Mouse’s trousers?
http://tinyurl.com/d7jjzmk
May 29th, 2012 at 6:59 am
“Hey, maybe they always wear helmets because they they are space bikers, in space, or some– Oh, wait, that’s a tire.”
This makes the “The Lies That Bind” cover look like the “I Sing the Body electric” cover.
Dangit, it’s a sci-fi book, the cover needs to be awesome! Or at least deranged and unintentionally amusing!
May 29th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Why have The Stig’s shoulders grown up and swallowed his neck?… And why are those people sitting on the Pilot from Farscape?
May 29th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
Blurb:
“Lusty bikers – trapped in a world of yellow smog!”
June 4th, 2012 at 6:29 am
“Sorry, I only have room for one member of Daft Punk on my motorcycle.”
June 21st, 2012 at 6:33 pm
White helmet: Luke, I am your father!
Green Helmet: No you’re not, the guy behind me is!
Red Helmet: Luke, I have something to tell you…
October 26th, 2012 at 5:09 pm
“Some say…He once posed for the cover art on Futuretrack 5…We simply know him as…Well, OK, not The Stig, but some guy who really, really wanted to be him.”
Budget cuts really hit Top Gear hard this year….
October 30th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
“Futuretrack 5” sounds just like those crappy pop-music compilation tapes they churned out in the 80s…
March 28th, 2015 at 11:50 am
Biker: I’m not going to give a ride to someone wearing a stormtrooper helmet. You need a proper crash helmet. Besides, I only have room for two.
July 18th, 2015 at 11:46 am
“You boys looking for a good time? I have what you want right here.”
“Umm..”
May 20th, 2022 at 10:13 pm
I’m glad the “yellow” tag is here, because… wow. UAI must have gotten a good deal on yellow paint that week.
Standing guy looks like he’s about to add some more yellow.
I don’t think that’s an explosion, I think that’s the sun barely shining through the extremely yellow atmosphere. Probably smog from all the motorcycles.
May 20th, 2022 at 11:17 pm
Explosion…..another poor urinal cake meets it’s maker.
May 21st, 2022 at 12:13 am
@Herm (assuming you’re still out there): Pilot realised that he had a bigger destiny than roadie-ing for Daft Punk and Moya was cooler than a Yamaha FSE1.
May 21st, 2022 at 12:31 am
So…is this a book about the fifth Futuretrack [1], or the fifth book in the exciting “Futuretrack” series? Or was it written by Robert Westall’s fourth clone?)
I suppose the charitable interpretation is that the guy just _finished_ his pitstop and is about to get back on the bike. (Three on a bike, you say in an interrogative tone? In The Future, all bikes will hold at least three passengers and a cooler full of Space Snacks!)
[1] “The fourth Futuretrack caught on fire, blew up, and sank into the swamp. But this one has stayed above water level!”
May 21st, 2022 at 8:28 am
“Excuse me, White Cliffs of Dover?”
May 21st, 2022 at 12:04 pm
“Excuse me while I relieve myself.”
May 21st, 2022 at 9:05 pm
@fred: No wonder the cake blew up; it was completely overloaded.
@Bruce: GSS, especially the footnote. I think it’s your first question, and for once, the American cover is better than either of the British ones.
I give you the most shocking fact of all: it’s a YA book.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Futuretrack-5-Robert-Westall/dp/0007126913/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SM4PF86RYRGI&keywords=futuretrack+5&qid=1653163454&sprefix=futuretrack%2Caps%2C386&sr=8-1
May 22nd, 2022 at 10:34 pm
@Bruce(#20):
“But I don’t waaaaant all that….”
May 23rd, 2022 at 12:50 am
He just wants to siiiiing!