Jun 01
William Comments: Here is the church … here is the steeple … open the doors … see the Village People!
Published 1989
William Comments: Here is the church … here is the steeple … open the doors … see the Village People!
Published 1989
June 1st, 2017 at 11:44 am
My eyes went straight to ‘Intervention’ and then a group of people gathered together…what could this mean???
June 1st, 2017 at 12:44 pm
“please, get us the f**k off this planet!”
June 1st, 2017 at 12:47 pm
A much better cover for Dianetics than that tired old volcano.
June 1st, 2017 at 1:00 pm
“Now we’ve found the keys to the Mir, we can start it up and drive that baby to the stars!”
June 1st, 2017 at 1:02 pm
“AND YOU SHALL CALL YOURSELF,” boomed the voice of God, “THE VILLAGE PEOPLE.”
June 1st, 2017 at 1:36 pm
“Welcome, welcome, to Swinger’s Planet. Hope everybody’s up for a night of naughty fun! Here’s how it works. Gentlemen, toss your keys into the large, moon-shaped punchbowl. Later on ladies, you will each pick a set of keys randomly and pair up with the owner of the keys you picked. Then we will all head over to JuanPaul’s nerd pool party on the space station for some hot cosplay sex!”
June 1st, 2017 at 3:27 pm
“And here we see the god… using earth as his keyring to mark out his bikeshed key.”
June 1st, 2017 at 3:49 pm
When I listened to ‘Great Gig in the Sky’ by Pink Floyd this wasn’t the image I had in mind.
June 1st, 2017 at 4:35 pm
It’s not a remake of The Magnificent Seven, it’s a remake of Battle Beyond The Stars which was a remake of The Magnificent Seven which was a remake of Seven Samurai.
June 1st, 2017 at 5:30 pm
@bc and everyone please register your costume. We don’t want to end up with 5 Sailor Moons like last time.
June 1st, 2017 at 5:34 pm
@JuanPaul: In my defence, no-one else was in costume as three Sailor Moons.
This time, I’ll come as ‘guy with a tiny little cut-out of the Moon and Skylab balanced on his fingertips’.
June 1st, 2017 at 5:56 pm
@JP—I do want to stay with the nautical theme, however, so maybe I’ll register as this legendary character of Zap! comix fame.
June 1st, 2017 at 6:13 pm
So, who is the owner of the giant hands the party of people in various forms of cultural dress are watching pray with their housekeys while balancing the Moon on their fingertips?
And what does any of this have to do with a “Metaconcert”? I don’t see a stage, microphones or instruments, let alone an audience.
June 1st, 2017 at 6:25 pm
@Anna T.: it’s ‘meta’ because they just sent their phones and stayed at home to watch.
June 1st, 2017 at 6:57 pm
Needs a new tag: “WTF to the Power of 10.”
June 1st, 2017 at 6:59 pm
I think it’s a typo of Metal Concert. Sick riffs aplenty.
June 1st, 2017 at 10:23 pm
I uh…
I got nothin’ that hasn’t already been said. WTFery abounds.
June 1st, 2017 at 10:33 pm
Oh, here’s a fun outfit for the nerd pool party, ENTIRELY in keeping with the spirit of GSS.
https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/869305770470514688/photo/1
June 1st, 2017 at 11:41 pm
I wonder how intentional it is that the elements combine to suggest a human figure with the moon as the head? There’s the space station as outstretched arms, the hands form the body, the key becomes a ……
You know, maybe I’ve seen too many sexbots this week.
June 1st, 2017 at 11:53 pm
@Yoss: #firstworldproblems
June 2nd, 2017 at 12:04 am
@GSS Socialite: I rather imagined something along the lines of the pool party from Mystery Men, but with less auditioning and more literature.
June 2nd, 2017 at 8:07 am
“Sorry I’m late to the editorial meeting… but I just had this incredible epiphany! Down at the corner shop, they sell products… where the package tells you what’s inside! In a manner that ordinary people can understand! What if… hear me out… what if we started making our book covers that way?”
“Pish-tosh!”
“Well, I never!”
“Perish the thought!”
June 2nd, 2017 at 11:58 am
Leftie: ‘I rather liked the volcano.’
June 2nd, 2017 at 3:46 pm
@Yoss I know you made that comment as a jest…but I think you may actually be on to something…
With that said “…ok, who thinks they can take the keys out my hands?”
June 2nd, 2017 at 7:13 pm
I think maybe the lady front and center is asking for a bigger key.
June 2nd, 2017 at 10:29 pm
OK, so the key is on a key fob called the great green carbuncle, given to Uncle Rogi by the Lylmik. It’s a sort of mental focussing device. His nephew, Dennis, on top of Mount Washington, is using it to bring together the whole Earth in a telepathic metaconcert to persuade the galactic milieu to rescue the Earth from the almighty mess it is in. Meanwhile, cousin Victor is leading a band of redneck idiots to attack the mountaintop chalet and prevent this from happening, by making the telepathic ‘heads’ forego their vow of peace.
Hmmm. Guess it doesn’t make much more sense, even when you know what it’s about. Awesome book though, regardless of the crappy cover.
June 3rd, 2017 at 7:57 am
@DSWBT: While we would resemble that scene more, I’m thinking that swimsuit I linked to must have been on some bad sci-fi cover at some point. Possibly here, even. Asymmetrical, “futuristic”, pointless, more cloth in the sleeve than the bikini. I think it’d look swell on Mercedes Lackey’s next cover.
I was halfway through iMark’s comment before I realized he was serious.
June 3rd, 2017 at 8:21 pm
In my further defense, I submit that the bikini I linked in #18 is the swimwear in the same clothing line as the formal wear in http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/?p=12541
June 4th, 2017 at 12:32 am
@GSS Fashonista: I finally took the liberty of investigating that swim suit. It’s bloody £263! I’m not trying to be a contrarian, my dear, but I do believe your typical graduate of Unknown Artist Institute could hardly afford to LOOK at a swim suit so pricey, never you mind paint a picture of one!
As for the second cover, well, anything’s possible when you can’t see what’s going on. 😀
June 4th, 2017 at 12:49 am
@DSWBT—So you think we can’t paint one, eh? Well, we at the Unknown Artist Institute are nothing if not intrepid. Lacking the funds to buy a ham-sheltering bikini, we have decided to use what we have at our disposal and head for the body paint! Perfect for the nerd pool party at JP’s.
We haven’t quite figured out the ham thing yet, however.
June 5th, 2017 at 7:20 am
@DS: Yes, but the graduate of Unknown Artist Institute undoubtedly has a pal who’s a graduate of Unknown Fashionista Institute (doubtless adjoining campuses, perhaps even divisions of the same school) who could look at a photo and come up with something that hideous. Possibly even more so.
For all we know, that swimwear was designed at UFI and someone else is charging 200+ after spending what they found in the sofa cushions (plus cost of a ham) to commission it.