Good Show Sir

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Wendy Comments: I think the faux-chinese font really makes this special.

Published 1978

(Average: 4.50 out of 10)

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Verylatetotheparty Comments: More Moorcock. The next book in the series after “The Jewel In The Skull” and a similar GSS suitable standard of cover art. The cover of the third book is disappointingly not nearly as bad. Published in 1975, it might also qualify as an early example of Orange and Teal, (although it’s come out more pinkish in the photo).

Published 1972

(Average: 7.33 out of 10)

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Badger Books are the bomb! Stinkbomb. We’ve gotten a number of Badger covers over the years, most of which have sat unused (mainly because Tag Wizard couldn’t meet the high bar we set for alt-text humour). So we figured if we piled enough Badger Books into one heap they would reach critical mass and burst into flames, solving our problem.

So let’s have a go at our first Badger Books Megapost. Today’s theme is

Damsels in Distress,

or, Badger those Babes!

or, BEHIND YOU! RUN!

The Girl From Tomorrow

U.F.O. 517

Night of the Black Horror

Mind Force

Good Show Sir Comments:

1. “I come from the future to … rock your world!”

2. Whence did they come? Thence must we run! Hence.

3. “Get away from me, Nerd!”

4. This is where you’d expect to find Bow-tie Man!

Thanks to Marvin and Roger T. for sending these bad boys in.

Published 1961, 1965

(Average: 6.00 out of 10)

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Tor Mented Art Direction: “Here’s my wife’s glamour-studio photo. Turn it into a painting. You’ll have a generic cover, and I’ll have an anniversary gift. Two birds, one stone.”

Published 1994

(Average: 4.41 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: “Let’s go clubbin’. Meet girls!” [Grunt]

Published 1950

Thanks to Roland for sending this in.

(Average: 8.38 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: The Bones of Zora … were all that was left after the dance.

Published 1984

Thanks to Jun for sending this in.

(Average: 5.69 out of 10)

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Dexter Comments: Let’s do it owlknight long, baby!

Published 1999

(Average: 5.80 out of 10)

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Charles Comments: I hate those claw machines. You never win anything.

Published 1974

(Average: 6.18 out of 10)

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One of our fanboys sent a link to some “funny” science fiction book covers online. Funny as in this smells funny. A lot of these parody covers have a je n’est ce quoi familiarity about them. Check out a few:

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Here is the culprit:

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It seems “E-online” is muscling into on our territory of terrible sci-fi covers. Not only that, they are nicking our proprietary memes such “jazz hands” AND “BEHIND YOU”, not to mention our Dick Blade obsession. So we paid a visit to our solicitor and he said “go away until you give me my back pay”. Later he said “it’s probably just a coincidence, great ideas can be thought up independently, didn’t Newton and Leibniz both invent the calculus?”. “Yes” we said “but Newton later became Lord of Mint and spent his later years hanging counterfeiters! We demand justice”. He said “anyone can take a picture of the same book cover, come back when you have more proof”.

Then we looked some more and found this cover:

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And compared it to this:

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After we accused Bibliomancer of passing off the same cover to Tag Wizard AND Joel McHale, he swore his innocence. So it is obvious that we have a strong case for INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT. After our solicitor finishes his rehab stint we intend to file a legal complaint. E-online will, no doubt, want to settle this in a hurry for a sizeable sum.

(Average: 7.82 out of 10)

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Bellatrix Comments: Looks like they’ve perfected the female condom.

Published 1950

(Average: 6.55 out of 10)

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