Nov 16
Billy Awesome Comments: Give me a giant, noseless alien with male pattern baldness and a 2nd-degree sunburn, looming behind the planet Earth while he scratches his forehead bewilderingly with one tentacle, and digs for earwax with another. Put him in a cutoff denim vest, and try to give him an air of whimsy. Now, get out of my office.
Published 1977
November 16th, 2015 at 10:36 am
The final shot of the first ‘Men in Black’ film, from a different angle.
November 16th, 2015 at 11:16 am
He’s just showing off because he can lick his own elbows.
November 16th, 2015 at 11:55 am
Let me know if you see that fellow, he owes me 50 from the Cheltenham Races.
November 16th, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Front and back covers of 1953 hardcover. Got to investigate those early Conan covers.
http://www.qbbooks.com/pictures/49178.jpg
https://gnomepress.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/iceworld02.jpg
November 16th, 2015 at 12:47 pm
Nice Gnome Press site for old covers.
http://gnomepress.com/
November 16th, 2015 at 12:53 pm
Good Morning, Vietnam
November 16th, 2015 at 3:41 pm
“No one could possibly live on that frozen plant but someone claiming to live there was leaving them messages on their answering machine.”
November 16th, 2015 at 4:41 pm
That is the expression on the face of a kid who’s just had their toys taken away by their parents.
November 16th, 2015 at 5:05 pm
“Ok we want this alien to be really creepy and terrifying, so let’s give him disproportionately big eyes so that he reminds us of an infant and makes us all smile when we look at the cover.”
“Awww, and whose little alien invader are you? And what planet is that? Is that Earth? Yes it is!”
November 17th, 2015 at 11:18 am
The Earth Rule: “When showing Planet Earth on a book cover, North America will always be plainly visible because 90% of our readers won’t understand what planet it is, unless they see America.”
November 17th, 2015 at 4:39 pm
@A.R.Yngve: Even if none of the Earth scenes are in North America, and indeed the book wasn’t written by a North American!
November 17th, 2015 at 6:32 pm
That’s one damn big North America. Going by that, South America wraps around the South Pole.
“See my guns? See them? You don’t wanna mess with me.”
November 17th, 2015 at 8:22 pm
It’s called ‘Iceworld’ but we cans see the coasts of northern Canada and a little bit of Siberia, just like on a map or a globe.
November 17th, 2015 at 11:10 pm
And thus the ages-old mystery of the purpose of Earth is revealed: the ball in a cosmic bottle of roll-on deodorant.
November 29th, 2015 at 12:31 am
@A.R.Yngve(10): One of the (many, many) things I adore about ‘Dr Who: The Tenth Planet’ is its gleeful subversion of this trope, in which identified land masses include South America and Africa, and most notably Polly’s weird obsession with Malaysia!
November 29th, 2015 at 7:43 am
@Perry Armstrong: and she does it on a planet that’s upside down and revolving at 45rpm. In thick fog.