May 12
Click for full imageTom Noir Comments: Now this here is a real fine used dragon, ma’am. The previous owner was a little old lady who only drove it on Sundays.
Published 1987
(Average: 7.04 out of 10)
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Tom Noir Comments: Now this here is a real fine used dragon, ma’am. The previous owner was a little old lady who only drove it on Sundays.
Published 1987
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May 12th, 2014 at 9:29 am
Grumpy Old Dragons
May 12th, 2014 at 10:23 am
Oh my. Now this is a wondrous example of GoodShowSir-riness! Technically pretty well executed, but that used dragon salesman’s seedy little moustache just screams registered sex offender. I imagine the dragon trying to tell her with its eyes “Run lady! Oh, the things he does! Run!”
May 12th, 2014 at 10:24 am
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May 12th, 2014 at 11:52 am
She had a hat, until Draco gave her a BIG KISS all over her face.
May 12th, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Her majesty’s wizard appears to have conjured up a sturgeon, not a dragon.
Is he wearing a pair of docksiders?
May 12th, 2014 at 1:51 pm
It has to be said, whatever the merits of the tales, the illustrations for the 1957 edition of Fantastic (the previous item on GSS) are way, way better than this!
May 12th, 2014 at 2:24 pm
“Here you go, Anne, he’d love to star in your next work.”
May 12th, 2014 at 2:48 pm
The great thing about GSS is that I submitted this so long ago that I’d almost forgotten about it! So seeing it pop up is a nice surprise.
@FoM – I’m pretty sure that what drew me to this cover is exactly what you describe: the lovely illustration style combined with the seedy-looking characters. Even the dragon manages to look like somebody’s dimwitted half-brother.
May 12th, 2014 at 3:10 pm
She is having a serious bad hair day, and he is having a really serious bad mustache day. Now that I think of it, even the dragon is having a bad scales day.
BTW, could the dragon be more obvious about where he’s directing the focus of his gaze? This cover really can creep you out if you look at it tool long.
May 12th, 2014 at 3:45 pm
That dragon’s eye looks out of place. A well drawn pearl on an artistic necklace of meh.
May 12th, 2014 at 4:32 pm
@Biblio: ah, so that’s where mermaids come from!
May 12th, 2014 at 4:38 pm
I conjecture that’s our hero on the right, a Ph. D. student whose extensive knowledge of poetry makes him the single most powerful entity on Earth. Maybe barring the Abrahamic God, maybe not.
May 12th, 2014 at 6:35 pm
@DSWBT—can you imagine two of these PhD wizards battling it out?
Wiz 1: I fling an enjambment at thee!
Wiz 2: Ha! I parry with a sprung rhythm!
1: A Villanelle! Have at thee!
2. Eat my Rhyme Royal, thou scoundrel!
1: Free verse!
2. Objectivism!
1: Anapestic Tetrameter!
2: Dactylic Hexameter!
1: Metaphor!
2: Metonymy!
Reader: zzzzzzzzz . . . .
May 12th, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Zooming in is the only way to truely appreciate that moustache! Wow.
May 12th, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Her majesty has declared it Casual Friday for all wizards and other employees of the realm.
May 13th, 2014 at 2:48 am
There once was a bleary-eyed queen
Who slouched ’round her realms, to be seen
In perspective-less planes
With dragons sans brains
And porn ‘stache guys (you know what I mean!)
/me waits for the magic to commence
May 22nd, 2014 at 10:08 pm
Is it just me or does her Majesty look a tad hungover?
May 26th, 2014 at 11:37 pm
@DSWBT-nice limerick, yo.