Good Show Sir

Sep 09

Tom Noir Art Direction: “Make sure to include a guy with evil facial hair and a bad haircut. Also, we need a guy sneezing because he’s allergic to space ships.”

Published 1981

(Average: 9.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: beard-wielding • D.J. Arneson • dude • font problems • Haircut 100 • helmet • mighty moustache • none more black • space ship • stars • Tony Tallarico • Watermill Press

May 16

Bloodhype

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Let's Flinx that Pip in the big microwave Click for larger image

Outis Comments: A valiant attempt to describe an actual scene from the book. Yes, that’a foxlike alien with humanlike hands, then a different one with a beak, plus two perplexed looking humans. An ordinary day in the Humanx Commonwealth.

Published 1977

(Average: 8.50 out of 10)

Tagged with: A Del Rey Book • Alan Dean Foster • Ballantine Books • damsel • Darrell K. Sweet • dude • handguns • little people • mighty moustache • side boob • Sir Mix-A-Lot • strange creature

Apr 25

Skeppsbruten på Tschai

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This is how all Swedish women walk around. No need for sheep. Click for larger image

Herman Comments: My Swedish masseuse translates this as “The Shipwreck on Tschai”

Published 1970

(Average: 9.05 out of 10)

Tagged with: damsel • devil's dumplings • Jack Vance • Lindqvist Pocket Science Fiction • mighty moustache • nip slip • strange creature • Swedish • Unknown Artist Institute • WTF

Mar 14

Search for the Starblade

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The Dannyboys: Book Three Click for larger image

Bibliomancer Comments: “After we find the Starblade the future of Ireland will be trouble-free!”

Published 1990

(Average: 8.38 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • bladed weapons • compass • Dean Morrissey • dude • framed cover art • harp • Keith Taylor • Luck of the Irish • map • mighty moustache • pigtails • shields • strapping outfit

Jan 17

Flandry of Terra

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Born To Be Wired Click for larger image

Rick Deckard Comments: Captain Flandry: Intergalactic hero and weekend cosplay Hell’s Angels re-enactor.

Published 1976

(Average: 6.38 out of 10)

Tagged with: Bob Fowke • Dominic Flandry Series • dude • gun • mighty moustache • motorcycle • Poul Anderson • ruins • tasteful smoke • wired • wraparound cover

Aug 15

Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra

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Lust Night of Terror Click to engorge that sword

Bibliomancer Comments: I’ll take “Penis Mightier Than The Sword” for $100 Alex!

Published 2010

(Average: 8.86 out of 10)

Tagged with: arms akimbo • Baen Books • damsel • David Seeley • devil's dumplings • Dominic Flandry Series • dude • Earth • glow • lady parts • mighty moustache • penis pump • Poul Anderson • shoulder pads • spiffy uniform • starkers • the pencil is mightier than the sword

May 10

The Privateer

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I'm Givin' Her All She's Got, Captain! Click for larger image

Tom Noir Comments: “Ohhh yes. She CAN take more of this, captain, if ye take my meaning!”
Published 1999

(Average: 8.28 out of 10)

Tagged with: asteroid • author on the cover • Baen Books • David Mattingly • dude • floating head • font problems • James Doohan • mighty moustache • once you see it • S.M. Stirling • sexytime • shiny • space

Mar 22

Honourable Mentions 18

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Magazines, franchise books, paper dolls and “non-fiction” occult. We have a potpourri jamboree here for another in our continuing series of Honourable Mentions. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Now add a pinch of Picard Click for larger image

Erik Tollstedt Comments: I want an image of Ernest Hemingway. He should be sitting on a purple couch in outer space. There should be papers flying away from his lap. Also, I’d like to see Ernest Hemingway’s head explode. But not in the normal way. It should explode into several other heads, one of them a sleeping hispanic man, and the other Emperor Ming. And have some sort of purple beam shoot out of his brain too. Yeah, that will convey “creative genius” like nothing else.
Published 1990

Laser Rhodan Click for larger image