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Good Show Sir Comments: She just gave him a Paleo Diet Cookbook.

Published 1986

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Happy New Year 2020! Hard to believe but Good Show Sir is entering its third decade of curating a panoply of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers. And a third decade of passersby mistaking terrible covers for bad covers. And speaking of milestones, in this past year we celebrated our 10th Anniversary and 2,000th Cover! We threw such a big party bash I totally blacked out and can’t remember anything. I’m sure you all had a great time.

2019 saw the launch of the Good Show Sir Podcast (“Another fucking podcast” raves Podcast Aficionado magazine!)

And in 2019 GSS underwent a massive expansion, increasing our staff by 50% with the addition of the lovely and talented Social Media Strategist Tweet Jane! Our Twitter and Facebook presence has been spruced up and there you can find bonus pithy comments and troll abuse not seen on our blog page.

On to the honours. First, the top rated cover of last year:

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Our silver medal winner is the Piers Anthony centaur and pony show:

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Night Mare

And the bronze-medal winning:

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Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

My personal favourite of 2019:

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Skeppsbruten på Tschai

Tag Wizard’s fancied this mess. “No guts, no glory” he screamed:

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Encores in Fade

And Tweet Jane just friended this role model. “Making her my avatar” she vowed:

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The Deathless Amazon

Now back to recovering from the concussion I received from a fan angry about my Black Peter costume. He obviously misunderstood I was dressed ironically. Go figure.
— GSS Admin

(Average: 7.88 out of 10)

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Hey guys, well I have the chips, beers, d20’s, cigars ….. and so I told them for the cover just put a large cybernetic cat man pondering meanly into the distance whilst standing in the midst of an exploded wasteland. *coughs* Why are you looking at me like that? …. Oh right, I forgot the dip!

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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Frank Comments: Good thing that fern was handy, else the publisher would have had to get really blatant with that maple leaf. All the electronic equipment out among the foliage is worrisome too. I’ve seen what happens when that sort of thing is left in a damp environment and it’s not good for continued operation.
Published 1972

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments:

There once was a hero named Blade
Who travelled through space to get laid
Wrapped his arse in a muff
Cause he thought it looked buff
Now the ladies are running away ‘fraid

Published 1972

Read all about this exciting adventure on the back cover.

You might remember this from here.

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Ronald MacDonald was very pleased with himself: having divested himself of his clown outfit, he could still eat anything and show no ill-effects.

Published 1970

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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It’s a Two-Fer Tuesday — Swedish Special!

Good Show Sir Comments: So what did you expect would happen if you delivered an alien-dinosaur-sized dildo.

Thanks to Jon Jensen for sending these in!

Published 1953

(Average: 7.87 out of 10)

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Well magic is purple. Fact! So we are sorted for that but we need a way of getting magic’s amazing power across to people. I know, electricity… and some guy in obvious pain as he weaves his supernatural element. We all know that when you meddle with the supernatural all you get is that burning sensation of being electrocuted.

Thanks to CSA!

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Tom Noir Comments: And that bit right there is his, um, Little Widowmaker.
Published 1998

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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Rachel and Thomas comment: In the book, the cover girl struggles with anxiety, depression, an estranged family, substance abuse, an eating disorder, self-harming, fits of violence, illiteracy, poor self-esteem, and the titular lycanthropy. It is just plain cruel to make her poorly drawn as well.
Published 2014

(Average: 7.86 out of 10)

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