Jul 25
Good Show Sir’s Art Direction: Look it’s based off a role-playing game so we’re technically a franchise… which means we don’t need to care about appearing on the website Good Show Sir… whatever that might be in the future. I want to see plenty of clenched jaws, and unnatural glows… like they’ve been sitting on a reactor!
Published 1999
July 25th, 2014 at 10:15 am
The kind of expressions that say, “You know, I’m not sure about this. There are better books.”
July 25th, 2014 at 11:10 am
I keep seeing the word TURD in the upper righthand corner. This does not imply anything, of course.
July 25th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Is that bug-alien-thing in the front photobombing the cover shoot?
Zero Point … zero stars … that’s how I roll!
July 25th, 2014 at 1:12 pm
Lady, it’s time to buy a new shirt.
July 25th, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Well, if Moira Stuart could do ‘The Adventure Game’ and Kenneth Kendall could play himself in ‘They Came From Beyond Space’ then Richard Baker could do a game-novelisation AND ‘Mary, Mungo and Midge’.
(Apologies to Bibliomancer for yet another culturally-specific British reference on a British-run website. Walter Cronkite or Anderson Cooper aren’t exact analogies but start there – look these extra-mural projects up and marvel).
July 25th, 2014 at 1:38 pm
I assume you spell patronising with the ess rather than the zed rather than the zee.
July 25th, 2014 at 1:57 pm
If it’s any consolation to you two, 5 & 6, I’m from Holland and I get even fewer of those no doubt extremely witty references you fling at each other with such cheerful abandon.
July 25th, 2014 at 3:21 pm
Hahahaah this is like that one Seinfeld episode
July 25th, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Is that bewinged besworded bearmored betattooed behanded alien wearing a sporran or is it just glad to see me?
July 25th, 2014 at 4:55 pm
The holes on the shirt look like an upside down wifi signal.
July 25th, 2014 at 5:12 pm
May I present the proud winners of year 2148’s world squinting championships!
(Male, female and bat-gremlin competitons respectively)
July 25th, 2014 at 9:39 pm
Goodness, what happened to the shading on the gentleman’s face? Either there’s a crucifix between him and the light source OR he’s got three cheeks pointed towards us!
…I suppose there would be zero point to me repeating everyone else’s joke?
July 26th, 2014 at 8:11 am
I know that look. That guy’s got something stuck between his teeth, that he’s trying to poke out with his tongue.
July 26th, 2014 at 11:31 am
There is something very wrong with the lady’s mouth. Her upper lip disappears. It’s as if it’s evaporating off of her face.
And is she supposed to have her hair in a bun? Her bun is sticking out rather far…
July 27th, 2014 at 12:23 am
I like to think the artist took a picture of these people before drawing them. This was their reaction to being told they’d appear on a sci-fi roleplaying game book cover.
July 28th, 2014 at 1:26 pm
Who broke her nose?
July 28th, 2014 at 3:50 pm
@ Jaouad: I feel your pain. As a Canadian myself, i politely laugh while whispering to my Brit ex-pat buddy “WTF does that mean?”
@ Biblio: we role with the ZED here, although I never liked singing the alphabet and ending with ZED, it was too rough. I like saying ZEE, in that America got it right. haha
I would like to change the name of this cover to really express what I am seeing “Look at my Boob Shirt!”
July 28th, 2014 at 9:25 pm
Smug Looks at Star Dive by Richard Baker
@The BooMaster: That’s because she’s trying to send signals.
July 31st, 2014 at 2:02 pm
To me books based on RPGs always seem to say “Are you fascinated by the idea of role playing, but lack the imagination to actually play? Here, here’s a book by an author who can’t be bothered to think up a setting and mythos of their own.”
Yes R.A. Salvatore I include you. Drizzt/Elric whatever.
August 14th, 2014 at 4:14 pm
I keep seeing the bat-alien’s horns as a pair of calipers measuring the woman’s breast.
August 14th, 2014 at 4:37 pm
@Alessandra: they are hooked at their tips, aren’t they? Perhaps they got caught, and as the bat-alien tries to escape, she suffers a wardrobe malfunction.
March 11th, 2022 at 2:25 am
This. Is. Sparrrrtaaaa! In the year 2525…..