Nov 24
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You know the two things that make everything look fantastic? Glow and blur. The best photoshop tools money can buy. So we’ll have a glowing blurry tattooed man with a wolves head! And some girl with some glowly blurry transparency around her. Make sure the title is huge and don’t forget to blur what you can.
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Tagged with: anthropomorphism • Darren Hopes • fairies • glow • HarperCollins Books • magic • Melissa Marr • once you see it • strange creature • tattoo • Unknown Artist Institute • wolf • wolf people
Jan 08
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It’s a Two-fer Tuesday: Andre Norton Before & After
Good Show Sir Comments:
Before: “This mission is so popular the men are dying to get in!”
After: “Damn! I thought filling the cabins with hydrogen would reduce our take-off weight!”
Published 1954
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Tagged with: Andre Norton • binoculars • dude • Eric Frank Russell • fire • floating rocks • Fritz Leiber • H.B.Fyfe • helmet • ill-fitting spacesuit • little people • Raymond Z. Gallun • rocket • Virgil Finlay • World Publishing • X-ray specs
Jan 07
Happy New Year 2019! We will remember 2018 for all the cameo appearances of actual professional artists, authors and editors in the comments! Surprisingly, they are not happy! Why would they mistake our lovely site for some sort of Museum of Bad Art? Just because our tagline is “Only the worst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers”? First thing to do in the near year is to change that to “Only the wurst Sci-fi/Fantasy book covers” so they don’t misunderstand our intent. Not all though. Some get it.
We here at Good Show Sir Headquarters are looking forward to the new year and our gala 10th Anniversary bash scheduled at an undisclosed location sometime in March. Our special friends will have their invitations hand-delivered by a uniformed government agent sometime in the very near future.
As always, GSS After Dark Platinum Club Members can get their party invitations here.
On to the honours. Be aware that this post was prerecorded and if the order of the top three keep shifting, well, fuck it. I’ll just have to go in and delete some ratings.
First, the top rated cover of last year:
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Down in the Black Gang
Sexual innuendo. Always a crowd pleaser.
Our silver medal winner is the Jack Chalker Honourable Mention clusterfuck:
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Honourable Mentions 19
As Bruce A Munro aptly put it: Well, if anyone was uncertain that Jack Chalker was dead, this should serve as convincing evidence.
And the bronze medal winning:
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Carnacki the Ghost-Finder
pot-bellied dude and pot-bellied pig
My personal favourite cover of 2018:
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The Image of the Beast/Blown
Cover Blown. Mind Blown.
And Tag Wizard’s chosen favourite from the year:
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Chaos Mode
Es car go go
Peace out
— GSS Admin
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Tagged with: Happy New Year • Old Year Sum Up
Dec 21
Let’s sit back and enjoy some Xmas vinyl. And then toss them on the old yule log. We’ll have our Festivus “Airing of Grievances” after we return from the break. I got a lotta problems with you people, and you’re going to hear about it! Have a happy holiday and we’ll see you in a couple weeks with our Old Year Sum Up!
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Good Show Sir Comments:
1. Glad I traded the elves to the Jawas for some droids.
2. Deck … the halls … withBoughsofHolly?!!
3. Why I oughta … wish you a Merry Xmas. nyuk nyuk
… and a few Honourable Mentions:
4. Let’s start with the liver.
5. So that’s the original recipe turkey bucket. Eight pieces. 15 kilos. Pull up to the next window.
6. Three Maids a Layin’ … no Golden Rings!
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Tagged with: Christmas • mega post
Dec 20
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JuanPaul Comments: The secret ingredient to Grandma’s gingerbread cookies will leave you feeling a little scorched.
Published 1983
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Tagged with: Bob Veder • fire • gingerbread man • Oh Noooo! • Pocket Books • Unknown Artist Institute
Dec 17
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The Bookkeeper Comments: Orlando Bloom stars as Legolas Lestat in a new vampire/elf mash-up.
Published 1998
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Tagged with: cleavage • damsel • David Mattingly • dude • font problems • leather • moon • Nigel Bennett • P.N. Elrod • Starline Books • sword • vampire
Dec 13
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Bellatrix Comments: Hey Tag Wizard! Do you have a tag for a belly-dancing tornado?
I have “dancing up a storm”! – T.W.
Published 1954
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Tagged with: Ace Books • arch • BEHIND YOU! • belly dancer • damsel • dancing up a storm • disembodied head • dragon • dude • fangs • font problems • Harry Barton • horns • monster • Murray Leinster • Satan • trenchcoat
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