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Good Show Sir Comments: And he’s in a hurry to get to where exactly?

Published 1957

(Average: 4.86 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir comments: “I smite mine enemy with a handful of fairy dust!”

Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

Published 1979

(Average: 4.86 out of 10)

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JuanPaul Art Direction: What we’re looking for is a cover that seems to question the reader’s worthiness to buy this book. It should almost say, “Kid, what are doing here? Look at us: Cat Men in spacesuits with our own f-ing spaceship. Do you REALLY think you can handle this?”

Published 1990

(Average: 4.85 out of 10)

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Art Direction: Kinda like those raunchy romance book covers with real people. Expect with a magical dragon and a hunky wizard waving around his magical staff. Who wouldn’t want to sleep with a guy who dresses like a wizard? Actually… good point… make sure to hire a model.
Published 2003

(Average: 4.84 out of 10)

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Larry Comments: OK, this doesn’t follow The Rules, but it’s me, the actual artst, giving you a sneak peek at my upcoming disaster. The art direction for this book was LITERALLY: A Black Helicopter versus a Black Locomotive, at night. It’s for the upcoming Baen (No really try to look surprised) book WRITTEN IN TIME.

You might remember Larry’s work from this cover!

To which he has responded: I agree with when I was gigged here at GSS for the Sceptere’d Isle cover. Yes that WAS a gamer pal with a costume. Sometimes I look back at stuff I have done and wonder, holy crap, what was I thinking?

He also says something we whole heartily agree with here, “Misty (Mercedes Lackey) and I have a life philosophy that embraces the humor in all things. As we put it in an interview not long ago, to fully respect something you must acknowledge that all things have an element of the absurd. If you treat something as wholly serious, you’re not respecting its entirety, since you are trimming off and discarding the silly side of it—in other words, to fully love something you must also make fun of it.”

Thanks to Larry for sending this all in and might I add, is a jolly nice bloke, as we would say here. Check out his website: www.gryphonking.com

Good Show Sir, Good Show!

(Average: 4.83 out of 10)

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Eron comments: This cover isn’t really funny. The art isn’t even particularly bad. But a warning to anyone who has ever even had the passing notion to take a graphic design class: do not look at this cover, you will get a rage-migrane for days. The layout is so shockingly poor and amateur that the thought that someone got paid for this, not beaten in a alley, just plain makes me want to drink whiskey and punch random objects!

My eyes…my eyes! Thanks to Eron!

(Average: 4.83 out of 10)

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Bellatrix Comments: Giddy up D’Artagnan. Oh, and have you met my new sexbot?

Published 1982

(Average: 4.83 out of 10)

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Emster Comments: He was the last Dominion Knight… and they would retire that rediculous suit of armor one way or another.

Published 1987

(Average: 4.83 out of 10)

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Twenty Twenty Two Blew. Twenty three skidoo!

Here at Good Show Sir we outdid ourselves in selfishly serving our customer base. Which remains nonexistent. Which is why we pioneered the introduction of random bank holidays not officially recognized by our stodgy government. A special tip of the hat to our field correspondent Ryan who apparently tours the ghost towns of the American Southwest where the last remaining paperback shoppes are preserved by the dry climate.

On to the honorees. The highest-rated cover of 2022, congrats to Max Bathroom, is:

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Max Bathroom Comments: Why you should never use a magic sword to shave your chest.

The Dancers of Arun

The Dancers of Arun

Tag Wizard shows off his twisted mind by favouring this clusterf*ck:

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Charles Art Direction: “Under no circumstance put a unicorn on the cover”.
Year of the Unicorn

Year of the Unicorn

While this doozy gave, yours truly, GSS Admin, bad flashbacks:

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Good Show Sir Comments: When Civilization ultimately battles for survival I am sure they will rely upon the KISS Army. Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!

The Texts of Festival

The Texts of Festival

Looking forward to big things happening here at Good Show Sir in 2023. Or maybe not. You get what you pay for!
— GSS Admin

(Average: 4.83 out of 10)

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Art Direction: Lets just get Jim from accounting, he works out right? We’ll put him in my air-soft kit and spice it up a little. People who read books love that type of stuff. It will be just like a TV show, but on a book.
Published 2011

(Average: 4.82 out of 10)

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