Good Show Sir

Dec 03

Ryan Comments: Being the younger child always means a lot of hand-me-down clothes, including pants with only one leg, apparently.

Published 1985

(Average: 6.80 out of 10)

Tagged with: bladed weapons • cape • cleavage • damsel • DAW Books • dude • lamp • little people • Robert F. Young • Sanjulian • skulls a-poppin' • Smirky McSmug • tasteful smoke

Mar 12

The Trouble With Heroes

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Sharona Virus Comments: Well, that hero turned out to be an empty suit.

Published 2009

(Average: 9.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: artist? you're kidding me • damsel • DAW Books • Denise Little • font problems • inadequate armor • Smirky McSmug

Feb 05

Crisis in 2140

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Marvin Comments: His Fitbit says he’s pipe-whacked 2,140 heads today. A new record!

Published 1957

(Average: 5.00 out of 10)

Tagged with: Ace Books • dude • Ed Emshwiller • H. Beam Piper • handguns • John J. McGuire • little people • meters • pipe • Smirky McSmug • wired

Sep 04

Seven Steps to the Arbiter

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Good Show Sir Comments: We haven’t had an L. Ron Humpday in a while.

Thanks to Fiona for sending this in!

Published 1975

(Average: 7.50 out of 10)

Tagged with: alien landscape • BEHIND YOU! • blaster • booties • cleavage • damsel • dude • font problems • frickin laser beams • L. Ron Humpday • Major Books • monsters • moon • pew pew pew • red • ridiculous hat • Smirky McSmug • viking helmet

Aug 13

Double étoile

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Good Show Sir Comments: I guess this qualifies as a “Two-fer Tuesday”.

Thanks again to Alain for sending us those terrible J’ai Lu’s!

Published 1975

(Average: 8.92 out of 10)

Tagged with: balls • dudes • J'ai Lu books • Robert A. Heinlein • shell • Smirky McSmug • twins • Wojtek Siudmak • WTF

Feb 19

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:

Intellectual Property Theft Click for larger image

And compared it to this:

Damn it... he's caught us! I knew we should have used the giant laser pointer! Click for full image

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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: 8.10 out of 10)

Tagged with: intellectual property theft • Smirky McSmug • WTF

Jan 22

Alien Atlas

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Tom Noir Comments: Incredibly some editor thought this art was so groovy that they used it twice. It also turns up as the cover of Starsongs and Unicorns by Eric Norden. The 70’s, amirite??

Published 1979

(Average: 8.57 out of 10)

Tagged with: arrow • C.M. Alexander • dude • Fred Hinck • Manor Books • muscles • ridiculous hat • sixpack abs • Smirky McSmug • swingin' medallion • sword • Ting!