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Click for full imageScott B’s Art Direction: Flesh lattice of exponential identical startled heads!
Published 1971
(Average: 8.87 out of 10)
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Scott B’s Art Direction: Flesh lattice of exponential identical startled heads!
Published 1971
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April 16th, 2013 at 10:26 am
I think I Sing the Body Electric just found a new sidekick to aid in its life of oh-gods-I-see-it-when-I-close-my-eyes artcrime…
April 16th, 2013 at 10:53 am
This really should have been published by Abacus. Wouldn’t be too pleasant to be the heads directly under the armpits, would it?
April 16th, 2013 at 11:19 am
Well I don’t know about you guys… but when I first… I really first… especially on Saturday nights… It should be renamed my FIRST night.
April 16th, 2013 at 11:39 am
RT @GoodShowSir: New Book Cover: First Person, Peculiar http://t.co/DieBuPSoKT
April 16th, 2013 at 11:52 am
Whole note
Half note
Quarter note
Eighth note
April 16th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
I assume this one spreads out to infinity to left and right. It certainly is a challenger to I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC, but is only a serious contender if the illustration extends round to the back cover.
I’m afraid I have no answer to the question posed under the title.
April 16th, 2013 at 1:33 pm
One, Two, Four, Eight ….
Who do we appreciate …..
MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
… and I do believe the BEHIND YOU tag is in order here.
April 16th, 2013 at 3:21 pm
And so the Vizier said, “Well, First Person, I can give you one giant head, or you may choose to have one head on the first rung of a fleshly lattice, two on the next, four on the next, then eight, 16, and so on . . . now choose carefully.” But, perhaps because his hair inhibited proper neural functioning, First Person could not comprehend the truly astronomical number of heads he’d soon come to possess, peculiarly.
April 16th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
The hunk tag? Shouldn’t that be hunk¤infinity? I mean, if you are gonna with the hunk thing.
April 16th, 2013 at 3:39 pm
WORST. FOOSBALL GAME. EVER.
April 16th, 2013 at 4:36 pm
When barbers have anxiety dreams….
April 16th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
I see you discretely put your thumb over Peculiar Man’s private parts. Is this the new Sheep-ing?
April 16th, 2013 at 5:17 pm
An early attempt to paint fractals… ON ACID!! (Somebody had to say it. That’s what I’ll tell the judge.)
April 16th, 2013 at 5:20 pm
Reminds me of an aeroplane, with wings, engines & such. Thirty Seconds Over the Uncanny Valley?
April 17th, 2013 at 11:49 pm
This and I Sing the Body Electric both make me think of Cyriak, who works in animation. I wonder if these covers inspired his art.
April 25th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
How “first” can a peculiar person get?
Well it all depends on his level of peculiarity I guess. The more peculiar…the more first.
November 23rd, 2013 at 4:13 am
You guys can laugh all you want, but if you were browsing through the sci-fi section while tripping balls this would BLOW YOUR MIND.
September 13th, 2015 at 3:27 pm
‘I think I see my dad.’
September 14th, 2015 at 8:09 am
Was this a scene in the movie TOMMY?
May 18th, 2018 at 1:51 pm
I don’t care if this carnival game is rigged, I’m going to keep playing until I either win or go into debt.
May 18th, 2018 at 6:28 pm
In Leyton High Road there’s a barber’s where the owners seem to have looked through a thesaurus for synonyms for ‘unique’ or ‘outstanding’. It’s called ‘Peculiar Unisex Hair’.
https://foursquare.com/v/peculiar-unisex-hair-salon/4ebe6dc80e019a162a1cd3da (and the old shopfront from before the Olympics https://londonist.com/2011/08/londons-oddest-shops-peculiar-unisex-hair)
I bet that’s where these guys went.
May 18th, 2018 at 9:52 pm
So that’s what stem cells look like — derpy.
May 18th, 2018 at 10:08 pm
It was a horrifying mistake when they gave the futuristic foosball tables artificial intelligence.
I’m guessing this is only the story of the one in front, him being the first peculiar person, the next ones being the second and third, etc. etc. to infinity.
@Tat: Would they give you a weird hairdo that praises Christ? One of those beehive or pompadour jobs so beloved by televangelists? And I thought the Bible was dead set against unisex fashions.
Also, attn. @RachelJ: The Mermaid Menace (YA division) continues.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071RHGBWW
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0719DZZB4
May 18th, 2018 at 11:46 pm
@GSS ex-noob: E10 isn’t noted for televangelists: the most famous hair-casualty from my old manor is David Beckham.
The clientele for this place is mainly afro-carribean so you’d most likely get a decent cornrow or beads, maybe a retro Hoxton Fin if you ask nicely..I have seen women leave with the barnet shown on this cover, usually after the application of a shedload of clay to de-frizz.
May 19th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
“Hello, yes, I’d like a peculiar unisex haircut please.”
“Praise the Lord!”
May 19th, 2018 at 6:06 pm
“E for Effort” is the one of the stories. So is “W for WTF”.
May 19th, 2018 at 6:51 pm
@Raoul: Y for Chrissake?
May 20th, 2018 at 12:56 am
Well, First Person at least has an expression of being appropriately aghast at this situation.
And no, no, people, you see, when you go out with your fresh Peculiar Unisex Hairstyle, and go meet your friends at the pub, when they first see it they blurt out “Lord, Jesus!” As in “Lord, Jesus, what happened!?!??”
May 22nd, 2018 at 1:45 am
@Tat: Maybe some dreads too? Jah! I can’t imagine paying to get the hairstyle shown here, esp. in this day and age.
Missus Beckham looked terrible/miserable at that wedding she went to on Saturday. Dave looked all right, seemed to have a good time; perhaps his branded underwear is more comfortable than hers.
@Raoul: J for “Jesus! Your hair!”
A for “AAaaaiiighh!”
April 4th, 2022 at 2:37 am
I stayed up past bedtime on a work night fully immersed in an enjoyable evening of GSS and was not disappointed by this top 10 beauty, or the resulting comments.
@Scott B – thank you.
High fives all ’round.