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Tom Noir Comments: What shall we discuss here? The princess on the giant bean bag bed? Blade threatening a man with a corkscrew? Or the ‘stiff breeze’ inside a room with no windows?
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August 4th, 2016 at 10:58 am
Always nice to see a man who enjoys his work. Really enjoys it.
August 4th, 2016 at 11:01 am
Gaikon. Is that like Comic-Con?
August 4th, 2016 at 11:26 am
Is this from John Norman’s* little known bi period? And if so why isn’t it called ‘Warlords of Biekon’?
*Hey, ‘Jeffrey Lord’ isn’t fooling anyone**.
**Or ‘Roland J. Green’.
August 4th, 2016 at 11:26 am
In normal human beings, the femur is the longest bone in the body. But
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August 4th, 2016 at 1:08 pm
A quick backhand from the soldier and Blade won’t be smiling anymore.
August 4th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
I think the Warlords of Gaikon should call in the Plasterers of Gaikon to finish up that back wall.
August 4th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
What we can’t see is whether anyone’s got rubber-soled shoes to prevent them all sliding on that sloping tiled floor. The princess on the scatter-cushion mound is especially precarious.
August 4th, 2016 at 4:37 pm
Dick, Sos.
http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Sos_the_rope.JPG
August 4th, 2016 at 5:36 pm
I may regret asking this question, but has
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ever snapped open a Slim Jim and shouted ‘Oh, yeah!’?
August 4th, 2016 at 5:58 pm
That man . . . was he created by stitching together the torso and legs of two different men? I mean, the anatomical issues present here . . . I’m surprised it’s not tagged as such.
August 4th, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Is there a face in his chest? A scowling eye under each of his nips, his sternum is a nose…
August 4th, 2016 at 7:01 pm
Kabuki mask breastplate? Subcutaneous demon?
August 4th, 2016 at 7:10 pm
Is the name pronounced ‘gay-con’ or ‘guy-con’? Either’s interesting but the latter also offers cheaper car insurance from a cockernee lizard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG1U0ZqYSnM .
August 4th, 2016 at 7:31 pm
@DSWBT—maybe two faces, cheek by jowl? Pareidolia rules!
August 4th, 2016 at 8:38 pm
Read it and weep:
http://www.idoc.co/read/45418/warlords-of-gaikon/3
August 4th, 2016 at 9:50 pm
@Biblio
oh my god
“firm as perfectly ripened fruit”
August 4th, 2016 at 10:11 pm
@Anna T. – I’ve seen so many bad covers the anatomical issues don’t even register anymore. Tag updated.
August 4th, 2016 at 11:19 pm
@B’mancer: why did you BROWN inflict that BROWN horrid thing on BROWN the world? What BROWN did we ever BROWN do to you?
August 4th, 2016 at 11:31 pm
@Bibliomancer—
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever
And you know that she’s half-crazy and her name’s really Petunia
And she feeds you tea and oranges that remind you of some other sort
Of perfectly ripened fruit . . .
August 5th, 2016 at 3:31 am
I got to the end of the first chapter but couldn’t stop thinking of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFlJFlLkgK0
August 5th, 2016 at 3:54 am
@B. Chiclitz – Is that Leonard Koan?
August 5th, 2016 at 6:48 am
@Bibliomancer—not sure.
August 12th, 2016 at 7:17 am
“Give me your wine bottle — or your eyes! HA HA HA!”
June 10th, 2023 at 2:56 pm
Dick Blade’s at it again.
Threatening the gladiator with a bloody sword, telling him “stop gaikon’ at my girl, Mister!”
Okay, I know. “gaikon”=/= “gawking”. I apologize….
June 10th, 2023 at 4:54 pm
@Hammy: it depends on whether it’s pronounced like ‘GayCon’, an LBGTQ+ convention, or ‘Geiko’, car insurers run by a reptile who talks like Max Branning.
June 11th, 2023 at 12:07 am
Gaikon. Rhymes with daikon. Is the damsel Miss East Asian Radish Festival Queen?
Really, Gaikon sounds like an anime series, or the con for it.
(Note — the Eastenders refugee insurance gecko works for Geico, no “n” in it.)
Is Dick going to use the squiggly weapon in his left hand to unscrew the plates in the guy’s armor, or is he dual-wielding sword and corkscrew?
June 11th, 2023 at 3:28 am
@Tat & GSS-xn (prev.):
Apropos of little, do you remember when the Geico Gecko ads started and there was an actual announcer as well as the Max Branning-voiced gecko? The announcer was a ham radio friend of mine from North Carolina. He did the audio production for the early gecko ads, the ad agency decided they needed a famous-announcer style voice-over, and Gary got the nod….
June 12th, 2023 at 12:07 am
@Hammy: Vaguely. At the beginning and the end?
June 12th, 2023 at 4:41 am
@GSS-xn (prev.): Ugh. I tried to find one of the commercials, but I don’t see them on YouTube. Maybe I’m mistaken – I seem to forget or get confused about more things lately.
June 13th, 2023 at 1:20 am
@GSSxN (#26). You beat me to it! I was trying to think up a daikon joke but nothing I came up with was of any quality. GSS!
I am sure the squiggly weapon is just a waiter’s corkscrew in the 10th dimension or wherever the R Blade series takes place. Waiterlords of Gaikon! Michelin 3*!