Fantastic Mr. Fox

By putting himself entirely in Glory's hands when it came to image and style, Mr. Fox developed quite an edge in terms of fashion.

Found this at the old place:
30 Responses to “In the Hands of Glory”

Phil Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 9:43 am

If we’re going to have ’80s books like this, we need a “big hair” tag.
Tag Wizard Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 9:51 am

Done.

Is that Sigourney Weaver or Lorde? Perhaps one of our pop culture experts can elucidate.
rev Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 10:06 am

Why choose this pose?

@TW I would have said Effie. Hello, good thanks.
Tat Wood Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 10:31 am

For gimp-lemur’s left leg to be so far ahead of Ms Stretchpants’ right one, his right leg has to be a lot longer than his right or her left.

Judging by her hair they must be in a very drafty passage, so she’ll wish she’d worn a jumper.
THX 1138 Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 10:41 am

Gordon the Gopher: XTREME 3000.
Bibliomancer Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 11:50 am

Font problems? Really? That’s the least of our problems. Discuss.
rev Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 12:00 pm

Here, hold this. Its my most deadly secret and you aren’t supposed to know about it yet so… no looking, ok? Just hold it real tight and don’t let it get cold. Good girl.
Ae7flux Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 12:00 pm

First known appearance of the CAPTCHA. Good thing, too. I don’t think this is the sort of book one would want one’s robo-servants to read.
A.R.Yngve Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 12:08 pm

The Timescape editor praised the cover art, saying that “instead of showing females as helpless and passive, this cover empowers women by clearly stating, ‘Hey ladies! You can be attractive and have great hair also in science fiction!'”
A.R.Yngve Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 12:10 pm

Imagine this cover used for the front page of COSMOPOLITAN, with suitable headlines:

FLOWING HAIR
that won’t break in space

ACCESSORIES
be fabulous on other worlds

SPACE PETS
Will they attract or repel him?
Adam Roberts Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 1:10 pm

I choose to believe they’re climbing out of a Phlegm Giant’s mouth. And that he really needs to see someone about his tonsils.
SI Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 1:32 pm

Step up into shape! With special guest… mole man!
fearofmusic Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 2:12 pm

The name is Netics. Dia Netics. And if you want to know the secret of The Patrol we’ll just need you to fill out this simple but extensive questionnaire. Grand! Now, if you would just hold these cans we can.. what’s that? No, I’m not Agent 007,I’m Agent 36DD.Why? No, I don’t know John Travolta or Beck. Why?
Rags Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 3:41 pm

The author tried out a few pseudonyms before settling with Eisenstein.

– Mary Neweton
– Amanda Linicoln
– Willomina Churchilla
– Tina Tessela
– Sabrina Stalina
Rags Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 3:47 pm

I am getting a definate pimp vibe from the ray ban wearing weasel. No? its just me?
fred Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 5:16 pm

Fought? With what weapons? Oh…..
Bibliomancer Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 7:09 pm

“Say hello to my little friend!”
Tat Wood Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 7:10 pm

@Rags (14): The name ‘Eisenstein’ suggests ‘Battleship Potemkin’ or ‘Alexandr Nevsky’.Trouble is, if you’ve seen the former you’ll be expecting the fetish-marmoset to be commemorated on a statue (or rather two, one of it lying doggo and, in a quick edit, a similar one of it standing proud like Parsley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GXaXnVdA8 )
Tat Wood Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 7:13 pm

Or maybe it would be Mary Tyler-Moore’s luxuriant wig that springs to rampancy when danger’s afoot.

(If you’d told me this morning that I was going to type a sentence such as that…)
Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
February 11th, 2014 at 8:11 pm

Witness the escape from the lava lamp!
Jeff Vader Says:
February 12th, 2014 at 8:26 am

Once Kinky the polecat had found a raygun small enough for his dainty paws he wasn’t going to let anybody take it away from him.

I’d like to think it makes a high pitched “pi-cheew! pi-cweew!” sound when fired.
HappyBookwyrm Says:
February 13th, 2014 at 1:30 am

I’m a little disappointed that a book with a title like “In the Hands of Glory” doesn’t have giant glowing hands on it. Unless her name is Glory?
RachelJ Says:
February 13th, 2014 at 6:23 am

@HappyBookwyrm. Well, the cover would have us believe the protagonist is one “Dia”, but I don’t see why Dia can’t be the rat-thing.
eliddell Says:
February 14th, 2014 at 5:19 pm

Am I the only one who things those stalactites are disturbingly phallic? I mean, more so than regular stalactites? Oy vey.
Jaouad Says:
February 15th, 2014 at 11:10 am

@HappyBookwyrn: In the inevitable TV mini-series, Glory will be portrayed by Clare Kramer.
Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
October 21st, 2014 at 12:48 am

Same cave?

‘Oh my God, is that Rachel over there? Talking to that priapulid wyrm? Come on, Kevin. We’re leaving. We’re leaving right now.’
Tom Noir Says:
December 9th, 2014 at 8:40 pm

“Dia honored and fought for the law of the Perm… until she learned its deadly secret.”

IN THE HAIR OF GLORY
Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
September 24th, 2015 at 5:01 pm

Predictably, the nerds went berserk over Rocket’s re-design, rather than Groot’s.
fred Says:
July 30th, 2022 at 6:09 pm

I think covers like this should be tagged with ‘reverse Frazetta’.
GSS ex-noob Says:
July 31st, 2022 at 12:19 am

@fred: I think “Rowena” captures it all. She was a fave artist of Saddam, never forget.

@Tat: Is this an example of “legs are hard to draw”?

the gritty reboot of PAW Patrol no one asked for.

Does she have a necklace or a tattoo?
If it's a necklace and she gets into any vigorous physical activity, she is going to shred her chin and neck.

(haydninvienna, thanks for posting that!)

In addition to my previous comment -- big GSS! to Haydn! -- my first thought on seeing it today is "Ain't nobody going to be looking at her hands".

ARY's COSMOPOLITAN comment made me laugh just as much this time.

>1 EndofDiskOne: They're both customers of the Hands of Glory beauty salon: she'd never think of having her hair done anywhere else.

Those stalactites don't look so much phallic to me as they look gooey. Perhaps they're traversing some enormous alien's auditory tract and that's earwax.

>2 haydninvienna: Original GSS comments are the real Fantastic bit of this habit.

>6 bam2001: Might be wax or fat; the occult items "hands of glory" hold such.

I recall being unimpressed with the Seizure Sans font in the years it was used.

Also, for such a fashionable femme, aren't her boots two different colors?