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Alessandra Comments: Ow, ow, ow! I’m doing a dental self-exam, my back is thrown out, and I’m carrying this armful of light-sabre blades!
Published 2010
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Alessandra Comments: Ow, ow, ow! I’m doing a dental self-exam, my back is thrown out, and I’m carrying this armful of light-sabre blades!
Published 2010
May 29th, 2012 at 9:36 am
I have that book! And generally like the author, but my first reaction to the cover was: ‘That’s so 80”. The cover almost prevented me from buying the book truth be told.
May 29th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Welcome Back My Friends, To The Show That Literally Never Ends.
This picture was apparently taken during an earlier set than the one from Carnelians. His shirt is still intact.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/03/carnelians/
May 29th, 2012 at 12:01 pm
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Shirt?
May 29th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Well, this picture explains why his shirt was wrecked in the last one. Never sing while standing too close to lasers.
May 29th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
All I see is a Spacemanilow.
May 29th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
@Rodney C. Johnson: I like the author too. My only beef is with the cover.
@Smith: “Spacemanilow.” Heh.
May 29th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Spacemanilow? As a huge Barry Manilow fan I don’t see that at all. Obviously that’s suppose to be Neil Diamond. It’s even up there in the title.
May 29th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
I believe the working title to this book was Neil Diamond: 2137
May 29th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
The Sixth Doctor starts his floor show.
May 29th, 2012 at 9:50 pm
I thought he was a Las Vegas sword-swallower.
May 30th, 2012 at 12:14 am
@Jami: Come on! That shirt is pure Copacabana!
May 30th, 2012 at 1:39 am
Allow me to be the first to point out, then, that the FRICKIN’ LASER BEAMS HAVE SIZZLED OFF HIS FIFTH LEFT FINGER!
May 30th, 2012 at 7:38 am
It’s heartening to know that even people in far futures and alternate universes still have to put up with crappy music.
May 30th, 2012 at 10:09 am
“AAANND III-III… WWILLL AAALWAYS LLLOVE YOU-UU-UU-UUU…”
May 30th, 2012 at 4:35 pm
@Smith – Nah. That shirt is pure 70s Neil Diamond. Pants and belt too. Plus the hair looks a lot like his hair on Greatest Hits V 2.
Hey, I like Neil too, not as much as Barry, but I do enjoy his music. Especially Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show. But that cover is SO Neil.
May 30th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
@Jami: I guess it just shows that cheesy pop, like mathematics, is universal.
June 8th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Is that supposed to be a belt? Or has he inadvertently picked up a series of symbiotic space leeches that grant him sparkly powers?
I vote for the latter.
June 13th, 2012 at 1:17 am
Appropriating this for “Look at all the fucks I give” memes.
June 21st, 2012 at 11:40 pm
Is this a disco version of “Rock Star”?
March 28th, 2015 at 11:52 am
@Phil: You could be right, but then that’s a light saber. I’d pay to see that.
August 29th, 2017 at 1:36 am
@TagWizard: This and the other Asaro cover require the new searchlight tag.
August 31st, 2017 at 7:47 am
Do spotlights count as searchlights, even in Future Space Neil Diamond World?
June 19th, 2018 at 3:25 am
I hate to disagree with everyone but that is clearly Keith Partridge. The rest of the family is hidden behind that shuriken of approval.
June 20th, 2018 at 12:10 am
Seems a little too blond for Keith. It does seem like the sort of outfit/gig his manager would book.
Leif Garrett, maybe?
June 20th, 2018 at 12:53 am
Leif was made for dancing, not singing, as his records attest. Apart from that time he collapsed in a UK nightclub. Maybe he wasn’t made for dancing either.
June 21st, 2018 at 2:11 am
It’s the future. Perhaps he’s some unholy genetic mashup of teen idols/pop icons throughout the centuries.
June 21st, 2018 at 3:21 am
As the Carnelians link above doesn’t seem to work, here’s the mirror-image http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=4904 and my comment at the time stands: it’s Tom Cruise in ‘Rock of Ages’.
June 21st, 2018 at 3:34 am
Hang on, how did he go from 70s teen/pop idol* (this, 2010) to Tom Cruise in a year (Carnelians, 2011)? I know life on the road is tough, but it doesn’t change people that much.
That is NOT the same person as the other cover, even if the wardrobe and pose are.
*Also looks like a smidge of “Frampton Comes Alive” thrown into the genetic mix in this picture.