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Tom Noir Comments: The subset of Sir Walter Scott fans who also like Rollerball is probably about the size of that Roman soldier’s thong.
Published 1996
(Average: 7.02 out of 10)
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Tom Noir Comments: The subset of Sir Walter Scott fans who also like Rollerball is probably about the size of that Roman soldier’s thong.
Published 1996
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September 26th, 2013 at 9:17 am
It should be noted. The author is also the artist! Good Show… good show…
September 26th, 2013 at 10:18 am
And he’s going to put out books like this until Scotland is given independence. Should we give in to such terrorism?
September 26th, 2013 at 11:52 am
@Tat: Fight and you may die. Run, and you’ll live… at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take… OUR SLEIGH WITH THE IPAD IN FRONT!
September 26th, 2013 at 12:11 pm
The Horton Flats Weekly Republican calls the North Country Players production of Puck of Pook’s Hill a wonder to eyes, ears, nose, and throat. It was noted with special interest the amazing talents of Laurence Glouvercoure as Sir Richard, Stanley Cowtoughrd as Parnesius, and Claude Farnsbuton as the Buddha.
September 26th, 2013 at 12:39 pm
Honestly I would describe this book more as ‘James Joyce meets The Fast and The Furious’… or perhaps ‘Dostoevsky meets Biodome starring Pauly Shore’.
September 26th, 2013 at 1:53 pm
Gray-haired man to gauze-draped girl: “I must have your shoulder blades!”
Butterfly-tattooed girl to gray-haired man: “Look at mine!”
Sled-driver to gray-haired man: “No! Look at mine!”
September 26th, 2013 at 1:55 pm
That dude on the right is about to “make history” with a three-way on that space lily-pad … while the gay boat on the left looks on.
September 26th, 2013 at 2:03 pm
Tag-Wiz, hey—I know your most noble self is continually inundated with requests, exhortations, snivelling pleas, bribes, even veiled threats, for certain tags to cross the threshold from thought to meme; this is not one of them, but, really, if ever there was an argument for a “weird delts” tag (to parallel the “weird pecs”), that kneeling guy on the iPad boat is it!
September 26th, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Done!
We also have “turtle people” available..
September 26th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
New game: Bath Towel or Kilt?
September 26th, 2013 at 2:53 pm
Look, someone must be a bleeding genius. This can’t just be random. It occurs far too frequently. It must be intelligent design. Once again, there is nothing about this cover which would ever lead me to pick it up, let alone buy it. Nothing. Absolute vacuum of interest.
How do they DO that?
September 26th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Is that a depiction of one giant imaginary constellation or merely a piecing together of multiple constellations?
September 26th, 2013 at 4:20 pm
@fred: It’s a connect-the-dots puzzle. If you connect the stars in the proper order with a thick chartreuse line, it reads, ‘Slip out of that cumbersome armour and into something comfortable!’ Don’t believe me? The proof is right there.
September 26th, 2013 at 4:38 pm
@Bibliomancer—I dunno about that “three-way” thing. It might be just wishful thinking for stone-face man, given the way gossamer-clad babe is leering down at naked tattooed (unless that’s just a space butterfly floating by) androgyne, who is in turn coyly peeking back at her. I think they’re into they’re own téton-a-téton and stone-face man is merely an—appendage, as it were.
BTW, check out the way gossamer-lady’s legs just disappear at stone-face’s ankles.
September 26th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
Sir Walter Scott meets Rollerball in…
IVANHOE’S DEATH RACE
September 26th, 2013 at 5:10 pm
Lanark is beyond awesome though. And the cover (artist also author) is something else too. Anyway, where were we?
September 26th, 2013 at 6:20 pm
Thought this one was ok actually. Some good influences.
Then I saw what was going on with butterfly girl.
September 26th, 2013 at 6:39 pm
Stone-face man to gossamer girl: “No! Do not look to your right! Avert your gaze! The sight of that… erm… thong… loincloth… map of Tasmania… whatever… is too terrible to behold.”
September 26th, 2013 at 7:39 pm
Apropos of nothing, every time I look at the woman in the gauze’s right hand I think it’s a some sort of errant space fish.
Is that just me?
October 10th, 2013 at 7:04 pm
Wow, is there anything missing from this cover? Let’s see, we have a sled with a sidecar, driven by Happy, the Lo-Fat Buddha (who looks to be quite involved with a round of Angry Birds), and its traveling through SPACE. Then we have the standard, with its flag flapping in what should be a non-existant wind, being held in such a manner that one immediately thinks “poleboat” (so maybe Happy isn’t driving the sled). Then, there’s Lurch, vacationing from the Addams Family, who seems to have encouraged Lucy Liu (whose hand does indeed appear to have morphed into a fish) and Jamie Lee Curtis (with her hair dyed blonde) to join him for some “fun” in the sidecar. Then we have the none-too-descriptive title to make you go “huh?” Yet somehow all of this busy-ness totally fails to keep your eyes from going directly to “I AM SPARTA”s itty-bitty, little-tiny, awfully disturbing, very blue, “protective gear”.
October 10th, 2013 at 8:18 pm
@GSS Admin: The fact that the author is also the illustrator counts against this cover, to me. That, and my own tendency to regard ‘Neo-Primitivist’ as ‘Primitive’.
‘Mr. Gray? How do you do, sir. I’m from Harvest Books. How are you today, then?’
‘Grrr…augh…grAAAH…’ *thump thump thump*
‘Yes, well, sir, it’s about the book. I have some good news.’
‘MAH PAINTIN! GRRERRR! MAH PAINTIN!’
‘Erm, Mr. Gray…we’ve received word from a representative of Gerhard Richter, and…’
‘MAH PAINTIN! MAH PAINTIN!’ *thump thump thump thump*
‘Mr. Gray, Mr. Richter adores your Lanark, and would be truly honored if…’
‘grrrRRRAH! ITZ MAHN! AH PAINTAD IT!’ *thump thump thump* ‘MAH PAINTIN! MAH PAINTIN!’ *thump thump thump*
‘Mr. Gray! Please! Mr…oh, God, is that going to stain?’
‘MAAAH PAINTINNNNN!’ *thump bang thump thump crash* ‘ITZ MAHN!’ *crash bang thump thump thump*
December 31st, 2013 at 7:45 pm
I am in that tiny-thong-sized group that adores both Sir Walter Scott and Rollerball, and yet this cover does nothing for me. Now if it had Ivanhoe battling James Caan, or John Houseman dressed like a Templar, my interest might be peaked.
August 25th, 2015 at 12:52 am
They all look like they’re on their way to an orgy, the way they’re all (not) dressed. And with that in mind, why did Mr. Gray think that drawing THAT as a cover would make anyone want to buy this book?
August 25th, 2015 at 3:39 am
@Dead Stuff: two years late, but Good Show Sir!
‘MAAAH PAINTINNNNN’ had me crying with laughter 🙂
January 1st, 2016 at 2:25 pm
“Charles Dickens meets The Planet of the Apes”
“Herman Melville meets Deathsport”
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meets Star Trek: The Motion Picture”
“Charlotte Bronte meets Shaft”
April 4th, 2019 at 8:29 pm
I’m A Tory Shaker
Dairy la Sagra
“Trols Ricewetter rolls meatballs.” — Great Daily Help (London)
October 9th, 2019 at 5:06 am
@anon: Makes exactly as much sense as the cover.