Just eyeball it

Taut SF thriller, or visine ad?


Really having trouble interpreting the expression of the guy in front. Resignation? Constipation?


An alien invasion that could be defeated by a bad ragweed pollen season. ("Activate the giant poking finger!")


https://sciencefictionruminations.com/2013/10/31/adventures-in-science-fiction-c...

>1 bam2001:

#1. Those clouds could be dust clouds, or water droplets that have picked up dust, so I vote for the latter.
#2. It looks to me like Mr. Foreground Disquietude is saying to himself "Bright red lipstick with *that* red-brown suit and red-and-yellow tie? It's enough to make me barf..."
#3. I'm just waiting for the giant tube of mascara to show up....

I remember the last 2, but I think that first one's new to us.

We had a number of amusing comments on 2 and 3 IIRC.

#2: I'm pretty certain the original readers were more interested in the, er, nose cones than in trying to fathom the front guy's expression. I can't figure his mood either.

#3: THAT's the Visine ad. Or at least the "after" part following the first two being "before", what with the polluted sky and extreme redness. Why the eyelashes? Do the lids work?

🎵You can't hiiiiiiiide your flyin' eyes 🎶

(Comment appropriate for 1, 2 and 3) "Ahem, my eyes are up here."

In all cases, all that's needed to defeat the enemy is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time. Because ...

The first illustration, less the giant floating eye, reminds me of what was used for one of Jack Vance's books or stories.

The Dogtown Tourist Agency, or maybe The Galactic Effectuator? Something like that. Maybe when it was printed in a magazine or an audiobook?

>6 EndofDiskOne: Eye don't know.

More eyeball oddness.

>2 Hammy_JLK: I've got to agree with Mr. Foreground. If you're going to flee, don't just borrow your friend's lipstick! Use the right color or go without. I'm not even keen on that shade for her, what with her hair color. But with his , absolutely not.

#3 That's a lot of eyes, they're going to need a flotilla of flying mascara.

@TorMented: Too true. Or, "my eye".

@NomadUK: What a pity this technology didn't exist back... oh wait.

@bam2001: ISTM that you could get a pretty good jump on that guy when he's switching from reading to distance eyeballs. Dead man didn't time it right.

>1 bam2001: That first one is just painful. All that sand and a naked eye? Ouch.

The third one is hilarious. What are they gonna do? Blink you to death?

>7 bam2001: I can't get past the nose. Again. Ouch.

>9 MrsLee: He looks like a transporter accident happened to his face.