Title: Strange Ones
Author: Ben Travis
Cover artist: Darcy
Yours for: $25
Best things about this cover:
- That is indeed the look of a man who "tried to love a woman" ... and then discovered she had a penis. "Why does this keep happening to me!?"
- "I don't understand why we keep playing hide-and-seek. There's just this one room and there's nowhere to hide." "Shut up, hide your eyes, and start counting!" "[Sigh] 1, 2, 3 ..."
- "Look at my armpit. She is sexy, no? You like ..."
- Sideboob! Two books in a row!
Best things about this back cover:
- Arrows say he had "warped desires," but then text says he was poor and hungry and turned tricks so he could eat. That hardly seems fair.
- "To prove his manhood, Ray raped a girl." Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned "Boy Rapes Girl To Become Ungay" story?
- For all the stupidity of this back cover, I love the arrows. Nice design element.
Page 123~
"The conclusion seems rather obvious to me. Either I have too vivid an imagination, or you're living with Luther now and he's keeping you for your only talent."
Somewhat anti-climactically, that "talent" turns out to be "making hand shadow puppets."
~RP
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10 comments:
But is it frank?
Is she wearing a dry cleaning bag?
Half the arrows have their tips cut off. Clearly a none-to-subtle allusion to male circumcision.
I just can't get over how amazing her anti-gravity boobs are. She must coat them in superglue to get her clothes to stay on like that.
I love the placement of the Beacon icon. Very subtle.
Also, how the hell is her lingerie staying up? Body glue? "A frank novel about double stick tape."
I hate to be That Person, but it's actually The Strange Ones. The first word's printed so small it gets lost.
Just had to do a search on "Sideboob" and nothing but the present two came into view. Of course, being at work I had plenty of time to trawl through the collection. Paperback 354 should be in the dictionary as an illustration of textbook Sideboob.
While on the subject I read an interview with Mila Kunis who said that in the upcoming Romcom with Justin Timberlake she showed Sideboob.
Er, 437 and 420 also.
Cover:
Brunette: "Aren't my armpits the most ravishing thing imaginable?"
Guy: "I know with Alopecia you don't need to shave them any more, but you're still supposed to wash them! Look at me over here - I'm blacking out from onion gas fumes, and the sheer toxicity's peeling the skin off your body!"
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