Title: Kid Galahad
Author: Francis Wallace
Cover artist: Charles Andres
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Best things about this cover:
- Unlike most Good and Bad Angels, Kid Galahad's Good and Bad Angels chose to reside in his armpits, not on his shoulders.
- Love how heads are crammed into every crevice of the painting. My favorite is the sweaty, neck-wiping Tintin lookalike (under the Kid's right glove, which appears to have been fashioned from the remains of an old football).
- This Kid has apparently been waxed within an inch of his life. "Behold my glistening torso!"
Best things about this back cover:
- LOVE the numbers of the ref's count on the ropes. Dramatic.
- Check out how lame the cover of the Little, Brown edition was!
- Jeez, first line of copy makes this novel sound like a slasher film. Or a tale of surgery.
Page 123~
She looked at him coldly. "Don't flatter yourself. I don't care whether you burn or freeze."
~RP
5 comments:
I have to comment on the eye-line of the guy in Kid G's right armpit. Checking the fit of his protective cup, maybe?
Is it just me or does the armpit devil look a little bit like Rowan Atkinson - particularly during his Warm Welcome bit....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC6UrMTC73A
Wow, the audience member right at the front seems to have been struck by sudden, severe depression.
* "Good-natured kid" still looks like good-natured kid in this cover image. He looks annoyed rather than murderous. Perhaps he's perturbed by Rowan Atkinson's jabbing finger and Mickey Goldmill's ass wiping? ---They are definitely fixated on the champ's backside.
* "A bantam book" for a "giant of the ring".
* The legs and tail of that rooster look more like those of a fox ... an unsettling image.
* According to the p. 123 text, it sounds like he is regarded much LESS than " ... putty before women ...".
* Ah,yes, "the gravy train to glory" is a wonderful place to sit in coach.
Call me a weirdo (after all, I am one), but his nipples seem abnormally far apart. Yes, I did look at him that closely. Don't judge. :P
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