Mar 13
Scott B Comments: If I don’t get to sit in the fancy chair, I will taunt you by mimicking your body language behind your back. Using only one of my many arms, obviously.
Published 1989
Scott B Comments: If I don’t get to sit in the fancy chair, I will taunt you by mimicking your body language behind your back. Using only one of my many arms, obviously.
Published 1989
March 13th, 2013 at 10:42 am
Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it…
March 13th, 2013 at 11:01 am
Sundials… on thrones.. Can’t say I wouldn’t have the same thing…
March 13th, 2013 at 11:58 am
I like this pic, to be honest, EXCEPT for the blatantly unstable way Robo-Butler is holding that tray. (Is it my imagination, or is R. Butler also doing the classic comic-book-heroine “show boobs and bum at once” spine-bending pose? Because that’s quite… er… awesome.)
March 13th, 2013 at 12:17 pm
What a bunch of posers.
March 13th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
In her childhood, Carla was obsessed with getting an acceptance letter from Hogwarts. As an adult, that obsession…changed.
March 13th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
What are those stringy bits coming out of birdman’s head? Bird hair day?
I’ll get my coat.
March 13th, 2013 at 2:37 pm
Does the robot butler really need such large antennae? Why can’t it operate at cell phone frequencies.
March 13th, 2013 at 2:52 pm
In the future everyone will have skin like marble. Manbird’s antennae are the goofiest since Belushi was in a killer bee costume.
March 13th, 2013 at 2:59 pm
Another opportunity for me to plea for a BEHIND YOU! tag.
March 13th, 2013 at 3:07 pm
“He” swore to destroy the galaxy he could never rule. Which he be that be? Robo butler? There’s no way he could even try, lest Asimov materialize from the ether and smack him with the Three Laws in deluxe leatherbound collectors edition.( Available in BuyNow! on E-Bay).
Bird man? With his horrifically deformed bill/beak? He can’t even look down when he goes pee without impaling himself and puncturing a lung. If you can’t hit the bowl, you don’t get to rule the galaxy. And no going outside to play until you clean that mess young birdboy!(Mothers Law)
So that leaves…uhm, wait.I don’t see the swell of breasts on the , uhm, person(?) seated centrally. Androgynous clothes, hair, but lipstick though. Damn you David Bowie and your Ziggy Stardustiness! Nobody, having heard “The Man Who Sold the World” is going to let a clone of yours rule the Galaxy!
March 13th, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Also, it looks to me as if we’ve arrived just as an impasse in negotiations has been reached between the multi-armed bird masseuse and his client.
“Look, you never said on the phone..”
“I say now! Happy Ending cost more! You want, you pay more! No pay, no happy!”
March 13th, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Check out the positioning of those those two space goblets. Adolescent males discover the laws of linear perspective! And why does the robot have a bulging bicep?
March 13th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Dearest Phil,
Your tagging wish: fulfilled
March 13th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
And there was much rejoicing. Behind us.
March 13th, 2013 at 4:10 pm
@Phil: You the man! Could I get you to give my boss a ring? I really could use a rise in pay.
March 13th, 2013 at 5:15 pm
@B. Chiclitz these are what you call “Things that make you go hmmm…”
March 13th, 2013 at 8:31 pm
@Fearofmusic: LOL!!! Well played!
March 13th, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Bid for power? Bird For Power!
March 13th, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Also, what’s wrong with birdy’s arms? I get the multiple-limbs bit, but it looks like the artist got confused on the third arm down. Might be the reason we don’t see any legs on that thing. Thank god for sundial thrones.
March 13th, 2013 at 9:17 pm
I am honoured to have have a tagwish fulfilled. My work here is done. But I’ll be back tomorrow, just to see if that tag is being put to proper use.
March 13th, 2013 at 10:54 pm
It’s not the same Ian Wallace who used to sing ‘Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud’, is it?
March 14th, 2013 at 2:50 am
his beak is wavy. that seems not only strange but impractical? also, are those laptops on her throne? this world leaves me so confused.
March 14th, 2013 at 8:33 pm
Remember that Saturday Night Live sketch where John Malkovich turns around and shouts “Do you mock me?” to his servants, who then continue to mock him behind his back… this cover is just like that.
March 28th, 2013 at 9:13 am
That nose looks alarmingly like a carrot…
May 11th, 2014 at 2:37 pm
MEGALOMANIA – A RICHARD CURTIS FILM. Starring Elijah Wood as the socially awkward, sensitive bird man, Zooey Deschanel as the outwardly aloof yet secretly caring matron, and Tom Hughes as the slapstick robot butler. Featuring Jessie Ware in a cameo as the infinite reaches of space.
November 29th, 2015 at 10:20 am
Consider for a moment how preposterous the blurb really is: “Out of sheer spite, I swear to destroy 100 billion suns, 1000 billion planets and a trillion moons, also including all asteroids, space stations and nebulae!”
The proper title of the book would be GALACTIC KOOK.
November 29th, 2015 at 12:13 pm
@AR: substitute ‘people different than me’, for stellar bodies, and you’ve got the Trump 2016 platform. ðŸ˜
November 30th, 2015 at 11:11 am
@DSWBT: Speaking of stellar bodies, neither Donald Trump nor this cover has any.