Oct 20
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What we shouldn’t have is something like ships exploding covering most of the front cover as some four armed goblins fire a cannon. And some blonde women holding her gun as she surveys the scene. Then the title and authors in huge fonts! THEN quotes from reviews just in case we think it’s not busy enough! That’s what we shouldn’t have guys. Right, guys? …Right?

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Tagged with: Baen Books • cannon • Captain March series • damsel • David Weber • explosion • goblins • gun • John Ringo • loincloth • monstrous humanoid • once you see it • Patrick Turner • ships • sword
Jul 29
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Dead Stuff with Big Teeth Comments: Not Pictured – Sesame Street.
Published 1965

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Tagged with: crossbow • dude • elephants • Jack Gaughan • James White • male skirts • monsters
Sep 10
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Scott B Comments: I don’t care how far into the future this book is set — there is no way that outfit will ever be in fashion.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: baldness • Brian M. Stableford • cloaks • clock • Don Maitz • dress for success • dude • electricity • fingerbeams • frickin laser beams • magic • magical orbs • male skirts • paging John Galliano • tights • vase • WTF
Oct 05
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Mark E Comments: I haven’t tried reading this on a bus but I have a feeling it might raise a few eyebrows. Love the little pervy toothy aliens.
Published 1980

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Tagged with: aliens • Bill Ransom • cleavage • damsel • devil's dumplings • Frank Herbert • monsters • space sheep • Tim White
Jan 15
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There’s only one thing in this world that can make a muscle infused man in a loincloth and his scantily clad female faint almost instantly. A naked red headed minotaur who is sneezing at them. Just remember, the sure fire way to success, keep the clothes to a minimum!

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • busy hands • cleavage • damsel • dude • inadequate armor • loincloth • Mayflower Books • minotaur • muscles • Thomas Burnett Swann • Unknown Artist Institute
Jan 07
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Scott B Comments: So we have a glowing underwater shark-riding, um, zombie Roman legionnaire? At least I assume he’s been zombified, or something. That’s a real death-stare he’s got going on there. Maybe he forgot he can’t actually breathe underwater?
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Avon Books • beast-riding • Clyde Caldwell • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • glow • Good Show Sir • Kenneth Bulmer • spear • strange creature
Nov 23
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OH OH OH! Let’s have a half naked man grasping his magic electrified sword around waist height. That sounds suggestive? Of course it is, he’s holding a sword right next to his baby maker. A ha ha ha. Don’t forget to overload the whole cover with text, a lot of text, in all shapes and sizes.

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Tagged with: Alyssa Day • Berkley Books • bladed weapons • dude • electricity • font problems • magic • muscles • sixpack abs • sword • Unknown Artist Institute • Warriors of Poseidon series
May 26
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Scot’s Art Direction: For this one we’re going dystopian agony. So, nuclear explosion! And a prison wall with people falling from it to their deaths, but get this, the wall is also a screaming face! With an eyeball being stabbed by a needle! That’s the stuff.
Published 1979

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Tagged with: Christopher Priest • eye-yi-yi • Pan Books • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF
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