Varicose adVenture

If she is riding a Bushbuck, or maybe a Grant's gazelle, does this mean the Greendaughter is about 18- to 24-inches tall? Also, shouldn't something about her person be, you know, green?

Let's assume there was a lot more green before the cover faded.

Carol Burnett as you've never seen her before!

Maybe her father or mother was green, but she isn't. Maybe it isn't a hereditary thing, or perhaps she's adopted.

If she's that small, that's also the world's smallest bird of prey. Otherwise, that is one giant-ass gazelle. Speaking of ass, why is hers planted on the ungulate's instead of straddling the critter as one would a horse?

I can see the trees are green-ish, but even if they were bright green, this would still be pretty damn earth-tone. I guess nobody would care about ShadesofTandaughter.

The chase scene cut from True Lies, in which Jamie Lee Curtis escapes the bad guys on a gazelle, trotting through one of those famous Florida Keys forests. Arnold will be close behind.

"To save her own world, she must venture beyond it... to New Jersey."

"Acclaimed Author of the Shadow Series". A claim to fame comparable to being the author of "Ernest Maltravers" or "Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes."

I have just discovered the "About" link on the right hand side of the page.

Following several of our books to the reviews of the contents inside, rather than just our astonished critiques of the illustrations outside, has informed me that a great many of these books contain tales that are zany in direct proportions to the covers.

>7 EndofDiskOne: Good find! When I need random easy content, I'll be looking up our faves.

@bam2001: At least I've vaguely heard of "Ernest Maltrevers". Not something I could say about this one before last week. Ernest probably never has had WTF covers.

Also, Rienzi makes me think of a beagle sitting atop his doghouse, typing.

I used to attend a one-hour panel given by the creator of the Bulwer-Lytton contest at my local SF convention. Everyone wrote their best-worst opening lines. The one that sticks in my brain after 30 years was "At last the long nuclear winter was over, and the lawn trapped and ate the first robin of spring." That one made it into the paperback collection.

>8 GSSex-noob: Now you've got me curious, since I do have a Bulwer-Lytton paperback collection, and I don't recall that one. Probably more than one collection, come to think of it. Something else to look forward to.

>9 bam2001: I'm not 100% sure it was in a book, and I sold off my copies some years ago. If you come across it, LMK the actual wording.

Re-reading the B-L collections is never a waste of time, though.

Please, oh please tell me...

Just what the *heck* is going on with Jamie Lee Curtis' right thumb? It looks like a duck's head to me.

And is that a watchband on her left wrist?

>11 Hammy_JLK: I wondered the exact same things. It might be a bracelet -- but no idea about the thumb. Apparently the artist can only draw one normal hand at a time.

Perhaps she must Venture Beyond to get to an urgent care center.