Aug 24
Another long weekend to celebrate the UK’s closing of banks! That can only mean one thing here at Good Show Sir… Honourable Mentions! Today we have a nice selection of franchise books that would be otherwise excluded by our iron forged rules.
Hope you enjoy these, I’ve even thrown in a special something at the end. Enjoy your long weekend if you get it and remember, books rule! Support your local bookery.
Click for full image
Click for full image
Click for full image
Click for full image
Bonus CD Cover!! Badly photoshopped accordion player:
Click for full image

Loading...
Tagged with: anthropomorphism • capes • cloaks • computers • cybernetics • damsel • dude • font problems • glow • Honourable Mentions • Jeff Grubb • Kate Novak • magic • monsters • music • Penguin Science Fiction • Roc Books • Sam Lewis • Stephen Billia • Steven Savile • strange creature • Unknown Artist Institute • Warner Books • WTF
Mar 06
Click for full image
Rusty Comments: How one can tell a true hero from a common man is by whether his shirt disintegrates in an alluring yet ferocious manner at the drop of the hat.
Published 2011

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • Catherine Asaro • dude • fantastical rock star • music • planets • Saga of the Skolian Empire • shuriken of approval • Unknown Artist Institute
Oct 18
Click for full image
Phil Comments: Coming up next on Radio Free Albemuth, the latest from Lynyrd Skynrd. But first, here’s the weather forecast.
Published 1988

Loading...
Tagged with: dude • electricity • music • Panther Books • Philip K. Dick • planets • space • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Mar 18
Click for full image
GK Comments: Even the bear fell asleep reading this.
Published 1982
Many thanks to GK!

Loading...
Tagged with: bear • Circle of Light Series • Gervasio Gallardo • music • Niel Hancock • strange creature • Warner Books
Feb 28
Click for full image
Scot’s Art Direction: A glowing guy in a suit with a dragon-shadow faces off in a forest against a menacing bunch of… elves? Orcs? No, done to death. How about a bunch of musical instruments?
Published 1986
Many thanks to Scot!

Loading...
Tagged with: Bantam Books • dragon • dude • music • R.A. MacAvoy • Todd Shorr • WTF
Nov 05
Click for full image
Art Direction: Come on, the concept is so straight forward! Like hands growing other hands sorta like flowers, while one plays a tiny trumpet. What? No I went off my medication because it was making my eyes feel furry.
Published 1975

Loading...
Tagged with: Good Show Sir • Lloyd Biggle Jr • music • Sphere Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
Sep 06
Click for full image
Natalie and Steve Comments: Unfortunately, Davy himself is not as vivacious as his cover suggests.
Published 1976
Many thanks to Natalie and Steve!

Loading...
Tagged with: Ballantine Books • Boris Vallejo • damsel • dude • Edgar Pangborn • font problems • muscles • music • strange creature
Jul 01
Click for full image
Don Comments: OK, we’ve seen tons of perms and oodles of mullets on these covers – but I do believe this is the first permed mullet. (Pullet?) Assuming that’s the eponymous Bard whose Tale this is, he’s apparently not the brightest light in the harbor, since he a) agreed to accompany his hairdresser on a thieving expedition from an albino lizard-man (do such things EVER end well?) and b) misunderstood her when she said she wanted him along to carry the loot.
Published 1993
Many thanks to the Don!

Loading...
Tagged with: a picture within a picture • Baen Books • Bard's Tale Series • bladed weapons • damsel • dude • GOLD! • Larry Elmore • lizard people • lute • magic • Mercedes Lackey • music • once you see it • robes • Ru Emerson • shiny • strange creature • treasure
Dec 25
Click for full image
And it thus cameto passthat the Mighty Lord Weber created the one thing which could instantly bring tears to the eyes of mortal men. Together around the campfire elves sat covered in blankets, drinking mead, talking to their wenches andwieldeda singlelute. But most importantly and what would soon become legend,they hadridiculous ears.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas Day!
–
Good Show sir

Loading...
Tagged with: Baen Books • Bahzell Bahnakson series • booties • cloaks • damsel • David Weber • dude • elf • fire • forest • Good Show Sir • handheld beverage container of Germanic origin (tankard) • Larry Elmore • lute • music • once you see it • shuriken of approval • sword
Recent Comments