Dec 21
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Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: You know what I would love reading in public… a book with a fully naked women on there. Tied down to some sort of Sci Fi chair… yeah… If anything it shows my literary intellect.
Published 1977
Well that’s us for Christmas folks! We’ll be back for an Old Year Sum Up on the 31st!
Happy holidays!
December 21st, 2012 at 2:10 pm
You told me Wheel of Fortune was a family show!
December 21st, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I wondered what obscenity the green blob was covering up, lower left. Imagine my disappointment when I clicked on the unsheeped image.
December 21st, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Ah… how people used to listen to music was pretty messed up in the 70’s!
December 21st, 2012 at 5:39 pm
“Proud Mary” – Creedence Clearwater Revival – 1969.
December 22nd, 2012 at 1:20 am
Say what you will, but that atomic ship’s wheel gives her an amazing tan.
December 22nd, 2012 at 3:33 am
ewe times 2! Happy holidays everybody!
December 25th, 2012 at 12:37 am
That reminds me, I need to feed my jellyfish.
December 26th, 2012 at 6:16 am
In retrospect, an MRI appointment was not the best place to drop acid.
December 28th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
Some people see cups, some people see faces. I just see sci fi boobs.
January 5th, 2013 at 10:39 pm
What, no year-end honourable mentions???? I’m crushed…disappointed…sad…
Obviously I need to get my camera working…..
January 15th, 2013 at 10:28 am
Well, at least the artist had a good go at drawing how breasts really move when the wearer lies down on her back. I don’t know what those extra freckle things are meant to be but the nipple placement is fairly good.
August 27th, 2015 at 3:26 am
I wonder if that’s supposed to be a portal to another dimension for our sleeping purple woman? Or maybe it’s a glowing, uncovered (and therefore unsafe) giant fan.
August 27th, 2015 at 5:04 am
Re Good Show Sir’s Art Direction at top, I had a longish train commute in the 80s, at some point during which I’m sure I – actually – read this very edition!
As beautifully parodied in ‘Life on Mars’/’Ashes to Ashes’, it was indeed a different time.
March 12th, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Cripes! Do you know how hard it is to write a pun on “mandala”?
March 12th, 2016 at 7:25 pm
@AR Yngve: depends on where the stress falls. If it’s “MANdala” you can have the flying fishes plah. If you go for “manDALLA” then you have Nelson and Winnie, or oblongata,
March 13th, 2016 at 11:33 am
@A.R.Yngve: Make an obscure reference to male Dala horses?
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Blisterberg Rover
VAGINA TOILE AILING TOVEA, ALIVE IN TOGA GIVEN TO ALIA
April 7th, 2023 at 7:52 pm
If she was blonde there’s a Game of Thrones quip here.
April 7th, 2023 at 9:38 pm
My take is that Mr. Silverberg probably had as much control over this cover as Ms. McCaffrey had over the “steering wheel on a Pern dragon” cover we enjoyed last year.
April 8th, 2023 at 1:16 am
That’s not a heathy pink. Don’t fall asleep in a tanning booth.
April 8th, 2023 at 2:12 am
Once again out of the robo-womb, baby-pink and confused and about to be picked up by the feet and slapped on the ass by a giant robot.
April 8th, 2023 at 2:29 am
‘Doctor Cuddy! House is putting naked women in the MRI again!’
April 8th, 2023 at 2:34 am
@Emster: Bob wrote a lot of porn in his early career to make a quick buck, and has always had an eye for the ladies. So while he might not have had anything to do with the cover, he probably didn’t mind much.
McCaffrey, however, was genuinely surprised by the dragon with steering wheel the first time she saw it.
April 8th, 2023 at 4:19 am
@The Blue: this is the recommended treatment for a Pepto-Bismol overdose.
April 8th, 2023 at 10:43 pm
@GSS x-n: well, makes sense for this and many a steamy SF cover. However, I wonder sometimes if poorly executed attempts at “cleverly steamy” are not in fact ghostwritten by a couple of 13-year-olds at summer camp.
April 9th, 2023 at 1:19 am
@Emster: Some of the art we see here looks to be done by the 13-year-olds, that’s for sure.
What’s been bothering me about this (other than her excessive pinkness) is:
The wheel of karma, reincarnation, fortune, whatever generally has people bound to the outside of it, not strapped into a misshapen stacking patio chair being fed into/out of the center of it. Is she going to become the axle? Is there another pink starkers broad on the other side to connect to another wheel?
Maybe the Space Sheep know.
April 9th, 2023 at 4:37 pm
@Herm (way back when at 11)—I believe the wheel of karma is a super massive object on the order of a black hole so the “freckles” are actually an illusion caused by gravitational lensing as spacetime warps in the powerful gravity field of the wheel of cosmic fortune, creating the well-known “double nipple” effect. Another validation of Einstein’s theory of general relativity!
April 9th, 2023 at 4:56 pm
@Tat #23 – good comeback. GSS 🙂
Happy Easter, everyone !
April 9th, 2023 at 9:28 pm
She was bluuuuuue violet.
And her lawn chair was shaded teal.
All full of karma was the wheel
From the stars.
She was bluuuuuue violet.
Bluer than violet were her eyes
Purple as grapes, her tender thighs.
Love was ours.
April 9th, 2023 at 9:42 pm
@The Blue: thanks
@Tor: David Lynch’s Willy Wonka would have been better than Tim Burton’s.
April 10th, 2023 at 5:03 am
@Tor: GSS!
@Tat: I am intrigued and would like to subscribe to your alternate-timeline Netflix.