Dec 10
Click for full imageTom Noir’s Art Direction: Here it is, this is gonna blow your minds: a hot babe getting felt up in an open grave! But make it black-and-white so we can slip it past the censors. Put some bats in there too. OH! And make sure the bats have boobs.
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December 10th, 2013 at 11:40 am
Wow… Tom wasn’t kidding… that bat really does have boobs!
I thought originally that the dirty ghoul was strangling her, I see now he’s actually grabbing her behind!
December 10th, 2013 at 11:58 am
Man, what was in that cider?
December 10th, 2013 at 12:13 pm
How much back-draft can a bat generate, if Tanita Tikaram’s hair’s going like that as a result?
December 10th, 2013 at 12:39 pm
She has some insanely muscular arms. That ghoul may be in for a “Crying Game” twist ending…
December 10th, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Why is she all black from her nether regions all down? Is it an odd looking garment? Or did the artist slap some black paint on to get this past the censors? Or is it a poorly drawn shadow effect? And how did Tom Noir get a whole week of covers? What did GSS Admin charge for that privilege? So many questions.
December 10th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
The trick is to bludgeon the admin with cover submissions until they are weak and disoriented and they start making poor life decisions!
December 10th, 2013 at 1:59 pm
I haven’t seen GSS Admin around here in a while. Perhaps he has been brooding in his Fortress Apartment of Solitude ever since I revealed SI’s secret identity. Or perhaps he has gone back to his home planet and left the keys and admin password with Tom Noir.
December 10th, 2013 at 2:21 pm
That’s not a bat, ya gits!
This is a bat:
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That up there’s a harpy. We don’t have a harpy tag, do we? This is what happens when the GSS admins aren’t hovering about.
December 10th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
I HATE that advertsing cliche when the model tosses her hair to show how fluffy it gets! Nobody ever does that in real life…
“With new Dove Mortal Essences Superlift Conditioner, my hair gets as fluttery as a bat’s wings!”
December 10th, 2013 at 4:21 pm
Paradise or parody. Can’t decide.
December 10th, 2013 at 4:45 pm
*sings* “Like a bat outta hell I’ll be going to put on mah bra …”
December 10th, 2013 at 4:58 pm
HAHAH, what a horrible cover….awful!!
That boob-bat looks like an owl.
December 10th, 2013 at 9:24 pm
@bibliomancer – well I just happen to be a personal friend of the GSS admin… So I can pass on your concern. He’s currently trying to find himself in a Dark knight type way. I.e locked in a Bhutanese prison but without any martial arts skills. At least that’s what his homing pigeon messages say.
December 10th, 2013 at 10:06 pm
Alice Cooper’s new video was just more of the same. Graves, bats ya de ya da.
Not even a bald head wig and a sulky Tanika Tikaram cameo could save it.
December 11th, 2013 at 12:08 am
Incidentally, illustrator Wayne Barlow also did the cover for the threequel, “Book of the Mad,” which I submitted here a while ago.
I actually think he’s a fairly proficient artist – it’s his choice of subject matter that tends to be amusing! Apropos of nothing, I wonder if he used the same model for both covers:
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/2012/03/the-book-of-the-mad/
December 11th, 2013 at 2:01 am
@Tom: I doubt it. Different chin, ears & cheekbones.
Re: subject matter, could we blame this one on the art direction?
January 4th, 2014 at 7:39 pm
I’m with @Dan, the arms are just a tad too masculine for my taste.
May 31st, 2015 at 4:35 am
This new chiropractor may be unorthodox, but he’s done wonders for my cervical spine!
November 16th, 2015 at 5:54 pm
I feel if you’re a professional cover designer, job one is to center all the cover text in a pleasing manner. Honestly, there is a button that will do that for you, right there in MS Word. Why is it so hard?!?
November 16th, 2015 at 6:16 pm
Ya know how some artifacts are so “out” they’re in? Well, this cover is so “in” it’s out. Cut me a break with the “Paradys,” already, and the knowing looks, and the erotic frisson and of course that bat-owl. Title should be “Boke of the Ded.” A-and where’s the “magick”?
End of rant. Sorry.
November 17th, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Some commentators have noted the damsel’s apparent upper-body strength, which seems to me an entirely appropriate attribute to possess when fighting the undead:
The Buff Vampire Slayer!