Feb 26
Ethan Comments: I just finished raiding my book shelf and I unearthed some truly wretched book covers.
Published 1990
Ethan Comments: I just finished raiding my book shelf and I unearthed some truly wretched book covers.
Published 1990
February 26th, 2013 at 9:02 am
L. Ron Hubbard… Just no. He’s awful. The name ‘Disaster’ truly suits doesn’t it?
February 26th, 2013 at 9:08 am
Look out, it’s a Duran Duran video!
February 26th, 2013 at 10:08 am
“This is the last time I buy a rowing machine from Xenu!”
February 26th, 2013 at 11:26 am
What was 80s Man doing to this contraption BEFORE it and he plummetted to a deserved doom? He’s dressed for a date (probably with someone wearing aircraft-carrier shoulder-pads and absurd hair) so is this the shocking truth about cyber-sex?
Or was he just playing Twister on the Batmobile?
February 26th, 2013 at 11:47 am
Typography overload! Not only are the H and D used as cheeks to hold in L.RON UBBAR, but every piece of text is in a different font. Even the 8 is in some kind of sniper’s gunsight.
I think the word “disaster” at the bottom is an editor’s note to the art department; it was supposed to be removed before this went to press.
February 26th, 2013 at 11:49 am
Or, to squeeze a second awful observation out of the author’s name:
L.RON UBBAR – now in HD!
Thank you, I’m here all week.
February 26th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
“Not only is it a good way to travel… but these attachments really help to work out your upper body.”
February 26th, 2013 at 12:46 pm
@Phil: Actually ‘Disaster’ was the one word summation of the story and style left in a cryptic note by an editor who then proceeded to vanish without a trace. He was last seen getting into a black van with Isaac Hayes, Kirstie Alley and John Travolta.
Really, no matter how weird or bad the cover, it still is far better than the story it hides.
February 26th, 2013 at 12:47 pm
Is Blondie supposed to be falling down those skyscrapers? There is no sense of movement. He looks like Wile E. Coyote pausing before he falls off a broken piece of cliff.
February 26th, 2013 at 12:54 pm
80s man with 80s font. Nice!
February 26th, 2013 at 2:23 pm
@Phil, that one made me giggle 😀
February 26th, 2013 at 2:25 pm
“Well this is certainly a disaster….Which one of these is the phone!”
February 26th, 2013 at 6:25 pm
Is he falling between two skyscrapers, or flying over a valley?
February 26th, 2013 at 7:18 pm
If Michael Bay remade one of John Hughes’ 80’s teen movies it would probably
look exactly like this. Looks like he is headed out to pick up Molly Ringwald to take her to the prom.
February 26th, 2013 at 7:53 pm
‘Somebody tackle that rowing machine before it gets away!’
February 26th, 2013 at 8:01 pm
The first experiment; Disaster!
The Second Experiment: Much better, thank you!
February 27th, 2013 at 3:28 am
The letters have not been made that can contain L. Ron ubbard.
March 2nd, 2013 at 5:45 pm
“I blame the evil of psychiatryyyyy…..!”
*THUD*
December 21st, 2014 at 9:07 pm
When did David Hasselhoff bleach his hair?!?
December 22nd, 2014 at 10:57 am
Cover is almost as good as the… is that tartan underneath?
December 17th, 2015 at 6:37 pm
Tartan lava, probably. The first thing I thought of upon seeing this: Mustafar. Damn, have I got “Star Wars” on the brain today.
Speaking of which, David Hasselhoff really ought to be getting fried by the tartan-lava, unless the hover platform/rowing machine is protecting him somehow.
January 11th, 2016 at 2:41 am
Steve wished he had assembled the air-raft properly as he flew toward his wedding at the Las Vegas Elvis chapel.