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Click for full imageIan Comments:No bull, this is a great cover. The Turtles are probably teenagers and have ninja skills.
Published 1991
(Average: 6.96 out of 10)
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Ian Comments:No bull, this is a great cover. The Turtles are probably teenagers and have ninja skills.
Published 1991
(Average: 6.96 out of 10)Loading...
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July 24th, 2012 at 9:34 am
Ten foot two, eyes of blue …
The back cover features more turtle men, a yellow bus, and, in the distance, what seems to been an orbital elevator.
EITHER
It’s far enough into the future that we have orbital elevators and alien invasions, but bus designs have not moved on since about 1975
OR
It’s the world of the turtle men, and a technological version of convergent evolution means that they have independently arrived at the same bus designs as we have.
July 24th, 2012 at 9:58 am
“I’ll bet you’re sorry you ever mentioned Bring Your Daughter to Work Day now, aren’t you?”
July 24th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
A rather delightful little review that establishes the cover has some passing similarity to the contents. Doesn’t make the art even a bit less horrid.
July 24th, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Lady Gag’s new bull-themed codpiece certainly raised eyebrows.
July 24th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Nice review link, Dead Stuff. I enjoyed the review of SimEarth that followed too! I remember making some sad-faced planets in my day.
July 24th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
I’m not going to lie — I like the weird turtle owls on the back cover!
July 24th, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Am I the only one who looked at the bus on the back cover and exclaimed “The 200!”?
Sigh, I am aren’t I?
July 24th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Gamera! Gamera!
Gamera is really neat.
Gamera is filled with meat.
We’ve been eating Gamera!
July 25th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
All hail the great flying turtle! Give me all your eggs…
July 26th, 2012 at 7:52 am
Bat-Tortoise, Defender of the Night!
July 26th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
So which one of these, uh, folks is going to be doing the singing?
July 26th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
@Tom Noir. All of them, surely. It’s “Singers of Time”, not “Singer of Time”.
July 28th, 2012 at 10:30 am
Well, the conductor in the back is doing his best, but it looks those two are not really willing to sing. Quite understandable actually, since the bull appears to have some serious case of cataract or glaucoma.
November 9th, 2012 at 7:49 am
I actually read this. And the cover is believe it or not spot on…
It’s essentially a sci-fi adventure updated to Stephen Hawking’s physics.
November 9th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Ol’ blue eyes is back.
July 10th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
Jon Pertwee persuaded the Sea Devils to give up their string vests and adopt his habit of posing as Jesus in a big cloak.
January 4th, 2017 at 1:18 am
@DSWBT: Did you notice that review was by The Notorious OSC? And funny how he’s now doing (in collaborations) the exact same thing he decried in it, as you can see on the front page (which has stuff going back several years and yet doesn’t mention the Ender’s Game movie…hmmm…).
This cover somehow goes past Good Show, Sir! into Kinda Neat.
January 4th, 2017 at 4:04 pm
@GSS locutor: I had not noticed the author. Nice catch!
With all due respect to my colleagues, I still wouldn’t be seen reading this book on the bus. I find the colours garish, the poses static and the placement of the figures quite jumbled. There’s no sense of mystery or intrigue to draw me in. Different strokes for different folks and all that.
January 5th, 2017 at 12:50 am
Of course, what you want your fellow bus-riders to think is dependent upon the person and indeed the bus.
On the school bus, you definitely don’t want to be seen reading anything out of the norm, lest taunting ensue. On public buses through dodgy areas of town, looking crazy keeps away the actual crazies and sometimes means no one will sit next to you, which is nice.
When I was a Nubile Noob, I endeavored to look as odd as possible on public transportation to fend off harassment, manspreading, and persons of inadequate hygiene or excess baggage (literal and metaphorical).
That said, this sucker is very garish and flat. Rendered in more subtle colors and better shading, it might have been keen.
@DSWBT: I presume you were addressing me in Latin, not Spanish? 🙂 Luckily I savvy both to an extent.
March 1st, 2024 at 6:11 pm
A Ramones singing time cover for a singers of time cover. No flying turtle people were harmed in the making of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2WYLSXJVpI
March 1st, 2024 at 6:44 pm
@fred: Needs more cowbell.
March 1st, 2024 at 6:45 pm
Then there’s this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAWDG3ZieM
March 1st, 2024 at 8:34 pm
@Tor – Turtle on the far right, behind the singer in close ups, has him some hair worthy of a GSS cover.
March 1st, 2024 at 8:51 pm
The Singers of ‘Time’ are off-stage, in a sound-proof booth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uti7rzNvAs
‘Some people run, some people crawl’, Most just sat and laughed.
March 2nd, 2024 at 12:30 am
“The Singers of Time”. Was that one of those album sets that Time-Life Books sold on late night informercials?
Or this classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEGL7j2LN84
If you had two copies of the book, there’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdQY7BusJNU
March 2nd, 2024 at 2:29 am
“And Gamera created Turtle in His image.”
@fred 2012: “And Gamera said: eat of this Guiron, for it is my body.”
March 2nd, 2024 at 11:57 pm
Ways you can tell the era this was published in: on the back cover, the man’s wearing a fanny pack/bum bag. To carry turtle snacks in?
I’m somewhat surprised it took us till the flashback a decade later to get the obvious songs in.
Which means I must now reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YB7qyn5MVs
March 3rd, 2024 at 3:02 pm
@Fred: Geez, you’re right about the hair on that Turtle. And it’s so carefully done that it has to be that way on purpose.