Good Show Sir

Jan 10

George Comments: Couldn’t find his loincloth this morning. Had to use the bedsheet.

Published 1980

(Average: 7.05 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • Andrew J. Offutt • cleavage • dude • Faux-nan • font problems • muscles • Robert E. Howard • sheets • sixpack abs • sword • Ting! • Unknown Artist Institute

Jan 08

Lord of the Trees

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Bibliomancer Comments: “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet!”

Published 1970

(Average: 7.20 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • anatomical issues • dude • font problems • Gray Morrow • loincloth • muscles • Philip José Farmer • sixpack abs • Tar-sham • tree people • weird pecs

Dec 20

Desperate Measures

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Good to know they're still selling Marlboros in the 22nd century. Click for larger image

Good Show Sir Comments: “I thought your ‘Ladies Drink Free’ promotion would attract more women into the club. What are we doing wrong?”

Published 1989

(Average: 6.59 out of 10)

Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Ballantine Books • baseball cap • David Mattingly • drunkie • dude • font problems • handguns • hologram • Joe Clifford Faust • mighty moustache • sexytime • tasteful smoke • What's on TV? • whip it good

Dec 14

A Cast of Corbies

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Good Show Sir Comments: Closing time at the pub, you leave with whatever you can pick up.

Published 1994

(Average: 6.14 out of 10)

Tagged with: "a novel" • Baen Books • BEHIND YOU! • big hair • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • embossing • eyepatch • fire • font problems • hoodie • Josepha Sherman • Mercedes Lackey • shiny • waistcoat

Dec 11

Mainline

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A writer to watch. Not a writer to read. Click for larger image

Kang N. Kodos Comments: I’m getting a negative vibe off this cover.

Published 1996

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

Tagged with: anatomical issues • Bruce Jensen • damsel • Deborah Christian • font problems • galaxies • half a face • half cover • negatives • space • Tor Books

Dec 07

Good evening, and welcome to a private showing of three paintings, displayed here for the first time. Each is a collectors’ item in its own way – not because of any special artistic quality, but because each captures on a canvas, and suspends in time and space, a frozen moment of …

OK, that’s just a Rod Serling Night Gallery quote I copped off of IMDB. But here, for your consideration, are three cover submissions that didn’t make the cut. Not because they aren’t terrible. Not because they are based on a franchise. Not because they are parody or comedy. Not because … well, just because …

Boob Tube? Click for larger image