Good Show Sir

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Ryan Comments: AKA The Batmen versus Zodiac Kung Fu.

Published 1988

(Average: 7.50 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Not every Elven dude can rock the Legolas’ look.

Published 1994

(Average: 5.64 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: A reminder that Shark Week at Good Show Sir would be ratings bonanza!

Published 2019

(Average: 8.63 out of 10)

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Good Show Sir Comments: Hide your women. There’s a new Flandry in town!

Published 2012

(Average: 4.11 out of 10)

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Chaz comments: The Eye of Sauron sees your copyright infringement.

Published 2005

(Average: 7.06 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: Providing manscaping to the Native Americans had seemed like a good idea, but the Cosmonauts were soon to rue their friendly gesture.

Published 1985

(Average: 5.27 out of 10)

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Esmeralda Comments: Yonder is the shopping mall. Buy her some clothes.

Published 1993

(Average: 5.71 out of 10)

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Rick Deckhard Comments: Do I recall correctly that Poe was married to his 13-year old cousin? What made me remember that?

Published 1991

(Average: 7.82 out of 10)

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Times are tough in the publishing industry for the German megacorporation Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA which owns Penguin Random House. Even publishing the Morrissey Autobiography as a ridiculous “Penguin Classic” couldn’t reverse their financial woes. You might have read that as part of a major restructuring they recently sold off the venerable Penguin Classics line to, of all publishers, Baen Books.

Baen, being Baen, was quick to reissue many of the Penguin Classic titles with more alluring covers to attract the less discriminating literati. Unbeknownst to Baen though, they recently hired our sometime social media guru Tweet Jane as a copy editor and she was able to forward us the galley proofs prior to their publication. What a sad day for the publishing industry but a major scoop for Good Show Sir!
 

Moby Dick

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Little Women

Lord Jim

 
To confuse the readers even more, Baen is re-issuing some of their own catalog titles and pairing them with traditional Penguin Classics art masterpieces on the cover. Case in point:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

 
Tag Wizard Comments: I’m sure our talented team of GSSers can do Baen one better. Try your hand repurposing your own favourites and send them along with our lovely submit button. I’ll check in during the day update this post with your submissions.

(Average: 7.64 out of 10)

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Ryan Comments: For once Baen managed to leave the orange crayon in the box for the cover illustration, and yet I still cannot, in good taste, make the first comments that pop into my head when seeing it.

Published 1999

(Average: 7.20 out of 10)

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