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Click for full imageScott B comments:Maybe I’ve been reading too much science fiction, but for some reason I’m less disturbed by the one-eyed two-headed(? -brained?) tentacular thing there, and more curious about why it’s wearing multiple belts.
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August 23rd, 2013 at 10:14 am
@GoodShowSir haha, nice, I’ve actually got this listed in the shop. I thought it was so bad it was good..
August 23rd, 2013 at 10:14 am
It’s too loud, man, I don’t dig loud noises!
August 23rd, 2013 at 11:22 am
Good lord! I was having that dream where you dream that you’re dreaming and you dream that you’ve woken up but then realize you are actually only dreaming that you are awake. And then I looked at this and now am totally incapable of discerning reality from a twisted dream state.
Thank God I’m at work where things like that don’t mattsr.
August 23rd, 2013 at 11:50 am
Goodbye, my Coney Island Bay-bee, farewell my own true lahv!
August 23rd, 2013 at 12:05 pm
…”yellow number 2″ tag?
I thought it was generally number ones that were yellowish.
August 23rd, 2013 at 12:07 pm
that guy’s probably screaming “Oh noes the aliens are wearing white pleather accessories! They’re so fashion forward, we’ll never beat them!”
August 23rd, 2013 at 12:13 pm
Quite right Herm! Time for a yellow two though. I know there are more of them out there… I can feel it in the tags… (or maybe that’s just my blood sugar dropping?)
August 23rd, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Is that the cover artist’s art school instructor screaming in the foreground?
August 23rd, 2013 at 12:46 pm
Looks like things are finally starting to get a little more interesting on Planet B (which was Book 1 of the Sweaterworld series).
August 23rd, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Sci2Fi? What, like Boyz II Men?
What are those aliens made of? They look like giant bunches of blue bananas.
Good forward planning with the “yellow 2” tag. I’m sure that will come in handy one day. (I note that this book is the only one with the tag so far; I trust you’ve been through the entire archive and verified we have never before seen a GSS cover with a yellow 2 on it…)
August 23rd, 2013 at 1:07 pm
For consistency, do we also need a “yellow FIVE” tag for this one:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2013/07/universe-5/
August 23rd, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Anyone got a spare sci2fi converter sitting around?
August 23rd, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Sweaterworld? We’re having that, Tom H! How many other pullover planets are out there?
Good catch, Phil, number 5 added. Looking forward to that call from Sesame Street HQ once we catch them all!
August 23rd, 2013 at 1:52 pm
@Admin: There actually is a Home Alone 3, and alas, it had nothing to do with squids (or Macaulay Culkin for that matter).
August 23rd, 2013 at 2:04 pm
So, if it’s carrying a backpack anyway, why would it need to wear its lunch box on a separate cord around its eye??
August 23rd, 2013 at 2:10 pm
@ The Tag Wizard, methinks thou hast set us a task! Let us go hence, forthwith, into yonder darkish dens of dusty shelving, in noble quest of more knitted images!
August 23rd, 2013 at 2:27 pm
@Tom Noir – Oh my… how have i missed that for most of my life! Straight to video special I think. 3.9 on the imdb scale… must be a classic! Maybe squids would have helped!
August 23rd, 2013 at 3:05 pm
The belts are probably part of an alien truss.
August 23rd, 2013 at 9:22 pm
How incredibly bored SquiddyAlien’s eye looks. Like he’s thinking, “Ho-hum another invasion, screaming natives, uncomfortable invasion belts…Wonder what color the splattered innards are going to be this week? Pink! What, again? So boring…”
August 23rd, 2013 at 10:27 pm
The kid’s panicking because the Birmingham branch of Selfridges is coming to get him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridges_Building,_Birmingham
August 24th, 2013 at 2:57 pm
@ Tat Wood, that building looks like the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile – only Borgified.
August 24th, 2013 at 5:08 pm
Despite all the frenetic busy-ness of the cover, somehow the monster manages to look bored.
August 24th, 2013 at 9:33 pm
It probably says more about me than the artist but when I first saw this I thought “testicles”.
And the belt things something 50 shades-y.
Might explain why they’re blue though.
August 26th, 2013 at 2:37 am
Why is the alien monster crying?
August 26th, 2013 at 8:58 am
“No, Billy, don’t eat that Richard Davis! You don’t know where it’s been!”
August 26th, 2013 at 8:58 am
The Blue Meanies Are Back And This Time They Mean Business
YELLOW SUBMARINE 2: Electric Boogaloo
September 3rd, 2013 at 2:08 pm
Well… it’s – two- alien laundry ball beings with legs. Wearing one belt each. One standing behind the other.
http://www.nautequipe.co.uk/laundry-balls-1445-p.asp
By the way, there’s widespread scepticism that these have any effect whatsoever.
You also should, before you hand over the money, ask yourself very carefully whether you want dryer balls.
September 3rd, 2013 at 2:53 pm
@Robert Carnegie — some publishers are too cheap to pay their artists enough to hire actual models, so I guess they use whatever is lying around the laundry room to get the job done.
September 3rd, 2013 at 4:48 pm
Balls should definitely be hand washed and blown dry.
October 7th, 2013 at 7:37 pm
Is that a Sony Walkman hung around the squid’s eye? I bet he’s playing “Rock Lobster” by the B-52s, which explains why the the kid is screaming and covering his ears.
October 8th, 2013 at 3:53 am
@Anti-Sceptic—that song does, however, contain a “narwhal,” though not one upon the vestry.
October 8th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
@B.Chiclitz are you sure you are not confusing it with Love Shack?
October 8th, 2013 at 10:28 pm
@Anti-Sceptic: No, I think the song in question is ‘Pearl’s Girl’ by Underworld. The line goes, ‘Morocco down to Paris, the pieces of the narwahl are waiting, the water deep blue..’ Yes, I think that’s the one.
October 9th, 2013 at 7:07 am
Gentlemen:
. . .
In flew a sea robin (Laaaaa)
Watch out for that piranha (eh rek eh rek ah hoo)
There goes a narwhal (eeeeh)
Here comes a bikini whale! (Aaaaah!)
. . .
“Rock Lobster”~~B-52s
If only it had been Love Shack; then we might have actually found the thing upon the vestry.
October 9th, 2013 at 8:26 am
@B.Chiclitz: Wasn’t there a John Denver song about this too?
“Narwahls, on my shoulders, makes me happy… ”
No?
October 9th, 2013 at 10:07 am
FöM, I think that might be Teardrops by Womack & Womack?
#Narwahls on my shoulders
#Reminds me baby of you
October 9th, 2013 at 10:19 am
I think you’ll find it was the Proclaimers:
A narwhal walked five hundred miles
A narwhal walked five hundred more
That song has me screaming like the kid on the cover
October 9th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
@TarWood:Let me just say AAAAAAAAHHHH!
I now have a nightmare mashup looping endlessly in my head. The twangy surf guitar riff of the B52’s overlaid with a couple of Scottish gits singing ‘La da da daaa, la da da daaa..’
Sanity slippage is imminent.
October 9th, 2013 at 3:33 pm
@FoM—Hang in there, dude. It’ll pass. Here, try some of this antidote, guaranteed to push all other music out of your mind. Watch out for side effects, though—don’t take too much!
She’s got style, she’s got grace . . .
She’s a Narwhal. Whoa whoa whoa, She’s a Narwhal.
~~Tom Jones
December 1st, 2017 at 4:47 pm
Riffing off a few ideas above (bananas, THX’s Stan Freberg ref):
DAAAAY-OHHHHH
DAAAY-OHHHHH
A beautiful bunch of blue banana ….
Might be deadly blue tarant’la …
And I call bullring on Tat @20.