Catman’s futile giant hand gesture is breaking out of the frame… but I can’t figure out why there IS a frame. It does indeed look like a book within a book etc.
And old dogface has eyes that remind me of Obie, the overfed sausage dog:
@Jaouad: I can’t see a clear thumb, either. I see a feature that could be the heel of a hand, but the positioning of the digit next to it is all wrong. And yet, there are five fingers on the hand.
But then, if the internet has taught us anything, it’s that cats would totally take over the world if they only had opposable thumbs. So maybe a correctly-drawn appendage was too terrible for the artist to contemplate.
Two books along… ‘A Plague Of All Cowards’. Not ON all cowards, but a plague that either turns everyone into one or infests the land with them like rats in Hamelin. Do they mean an epidemic of cowardice or simply that everyone suddenly wears silk dressing-gowns, rolls their Rs and calls everyone else ‘dear boy’?
I refuse to use my huge, poisonous claws or my massive teeth, NO, instead i shall weild this small piece of plastic to inflict minor irritations upon thee!!
The picture in the background is actually a travel poster for wonderful Bozeman Montana. Summer or Winter there is always something to do in Bozeman. In the foreground is the sad outcome of giving professional sled dogs performance enhancing drugs.
@ Tat Wood It’s been a year now and no one has commented on your witty observations, so I’ll bite. Maybe it’s a negative look at a family reünion. The English Cowards, Couhirdes, Couhyrds, Couhyrdes, Cohyrdes, Couherds, Cowherds, Couhirds, and of course the Couherdes, will all be invited. But certainly not the French Cuards or Couards.
Four years plus after:
“A PLAGUE OF ALL COWARDS, [William Barton’s] second novel, is a multi-leveled story peopled with exotic and very real characters, treacherous and complex intrigues, a hunt for a desperate assassin…and The Oracle, a sentient computer capable of manipulating certain levels of reality…”.
So now you know.
September 13th, 2012 at 10:56 am
It’s nice to see Agent Two-Zero getting work after ‘Stingray’ ended. His Vulcan Salute needs work, though.
September 13th, 2012 at 11:17 am
“I’ve had it up to here with your ‘Werewolf? There wolf!” jokes!”
Also, anyone else misread this as edited by Kenneth Bummer?
September 13th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Is the cat-faced feller in the background wearing one of those novelty foam giant hands?
September 13th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Does that foam hand even have a thumb?
September 13th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Is just my imagination, or does it look like there’s a book, within a book, within a book?
September 13th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
If they did an album would it consist of new singings?
September 13th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
“Big Hands, I know you’re the one/”
September 13th, 2012 at 9:03 pm
Catman’s futile giant hand gesture is breaking out of the frame… but I can’t figure out why there IS a frame. It does indeed look like a book within a book etc.
And old dogface has eyes that remind me of Obie, the overfed sausage dog:
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September 14th, 2012 at 3:23 am
Please say the murderous wolfman fellow is also a mad scientist. He has got that expression down
September 14th, 2012 at 7:59 am
The full moon came into view — and before the shocked stares of the other Muppets, Gonzo turned into… a werewolf!
September 14th, 2012 at 10:18 am
Tell me to fetch that stick again, and I’ll cut you.
September 14th, 2012 at 3:06 pm
‘Corgi Books’,eh? We know who’s the publisher’s pet (so to speak)!
September 14th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
@Jaouad: I can’t see a clear thumb, either. I see a feature that could be the heel of a hand, but the positioning of the digit next to it is all wrong. And yet, there are five fingers on the hand.
But then, if the internet has taught us anything, it’s that cats would totally take over the world if they only had opposable thumbs. So maybe a correctly-drawn appendage was too terrible for the artist to contemplate.
September 14th, 2012 at 11:38 pm
Two books along… ‘A Plague Of All Cowards’. Not ON all cowards, but a plague that either turns everyone into one or infests the land with them like rats in Hamelin. Do they mean an epidemic of cowardice or simply that everyone suddenly wears silk dressing-gowns, rolls their Rs and calls everyone else ‘dear boy’?
September 16th, 2012 at 5:18 am
We SO need an ‘animals with weapons’ tag!
October 10th, 2012 at 11:02 am
The wolf’s been watching Lion King too much maybe? http://www.mylionking.com/fan/art/Artists/Disney/Portraits/Ed.jpg
February 4th, 2013 at 5:53 pm
I refuse to use my huge, poisonous claws or my massive teeth, NO, instead i shall weild this small piece of plastic to inflict minor irritations upon thee!!
September 17th, 2013 at 2:59 am
The picture in the background is actually a travel poster for wonderful Bozeman Montana. Summer or Winter there is always something to do in Bozeman. In the foreground is the sad outcome of giving professional sled dogs performance enhancing drugs.
@ Tat Wood It’s been a year now and no one has commented on your witty observations, so I’ll bite. Maybe it’s a negative look at a family reünion. The English Cowards, Couhirdes, Couhyrds, Couhyrdes, Cohyrdes, Couherds, Cowherds, Couhirds, and of course the Couherdes, will all be invited. But certainly not the French Cuards or Couards.
September 17th, 2013 at 4:25 am
The wolf has better thumbs than the catman. Even though he only has nine digits, three of them seem to be thumbs.
Then again, his right arm seems to be completely detached from his body and sort of just disintegrates below the “wrist,” so it’s really just, wtf?
December 19th, 2013 at 5:45 pm
Who likes this dog’s art?
Who? Who? Who who?
March 27th, 2015 at 3:00 pm
One less finger in the left paw, eh Wolfy?
That’s what happens when your knife doesn’t have a handle.
August 8th, 2017 at 2:48 am
Is this one of those banned Tango ads? The floppy big hand? That wolf just did not want to get Tango’d.
December 9th, 2017 at 12:35 pm
Four years plus after:
“A PLAGUE OF ALL COWARDS, [William Barton’s] second novel, is a multi-leveled story peopled with exotic and very real characters, treacherous and complex intrigues, a hunt for a desperate assassin…and The Oracle, a sentient computer capable of manipulating certain levels of reality…”.
So now you know.
October 15th, 2021 at 2:04 pm
Using book cover logic, if I turn around with my back to the monitor, do I then become a character in one of these stories?
October 15th, 2021 at 5:29 pm
@fred Yes, and you will immediately be stabbed in the back
October 15th, 2021 at 8:48 pm
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October 15th, 2021 at 9:23 pm
Phil’s nine year old link still works, and Obie the ob(i)ese sausage hellhound is scarier than the wolfman on the cover.
October 15th, 2021 at 9:36 pm
“Oh no! This werewolf has a knife!”
When your werewolf insists on playing in the interstellar portal system even though you expressly said no. Bad werewolf!
October 15th, 2021 at 10:48 pm
Looking at his surroundings, I think wolfy is holding an icicle.
October 16th, 2021 at 12:24 am
@fred: Could be, the background does look snowy.
@Vlttp: Yikes. You’re right.
Is Catman the son of Plastic Man, and inherited a long stretchy arm, or did he just get than hand cut off (by Wolfy?) and threw it at the camera?
October 16th, 2021 at 5:13 am
“At last! Vengeance on all those who mocked my comically outsized paw-hands!”