You’ve just managed to talk a girl out of her clothes when in barges her father, er, a giant, four-armed dude with the head of a gorilla, or maybe it’s a lion, or some damn thing, and he’s seriously pissed that his little girl is standing there nekkid in this bachelor pad of yours with the suggestive carvings on the walls, and you’ve got a pitcher of something that probably isn’t Hi-C sitting at your feet, and well, he’s just spoiling for a fight. If you’re like me, that’s going to seriously cramp your style. It’s such a drag, man.
On a more serious note, I apologize for throwing up another lame image post instead of something worthwhile — well, as worthwhile as my drivel ever gets — but I just haven’t felt much inspiration to write this week. I guess I’m still picking through the emotional knots surrounding my uncle’s death, or maybe it’s just one of those periods when I don’t have a lot to say. In any event, I hope all you Loyal Readers out there are at least enjoying the cool pictures. There are so, so many of them to be had out there in the vastness of the InterWeb. This particular one is a book illustration of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ immortal hero John Carter of Mars and (I presume) his mate, the lovely Dejah Thoris, being menaced by… well, some freaky thing or other. It’s been a long time since I read the Barsoom stories so I don’t really recognize who or what that’s supposed to be. The artist is a gentleman called Reed Crandall, who was a mainstay of the infamous publisher EC Comics (the one nervous Senators, prudes, and scolds feared was corrupting America’s youth with Tales of the Crypt back in the lily-white 1950s); you can see a gallery of Crandall’s Burroughs-related work here. It’s beautiful stuff, in my humble opinion. I especially like this one. But then, I was corrupted myself as a kid by rock-and-roll album covers and TV shows like Three’s Company.
In any event, credit where it’s due: I spotted this image over at Michael May’s Adventureblog Annex, which is one of those Tumblr thingies Michael set up so he could move this sort of thing off his regular Adventureblog. That’s a pretty good idea, really, a subset of a blog reserved just for trading cool pictures… Hmmmm.
