4.19.2009

Sultry Sunday #27 - the weekly "Pop Sensation" crossover

Hey all. Rex Parker here, back from a little vacation (Costa Rica), and ready to drop some more fresh vintage covers for you all once again. Let's see ... yes, this will do:

Paperback 221: Permabooks M-4289
(1st ptg, 1963)


Title: Like Love
Author: Ed McBain
Cover artist: Robert McGinnis



Best things about this cover:

  • "Dear God, please let me score with this chick from Cirque de Soleil. Amen."
  • "Dammit! Why won't my eyebrows stay *down*!?"
  • "Man, my thumbnails look *weird* up close..."
  • "Oh, Steve, I'm tired of you and your shadow puppets. Can't we just get back to hanging drapery?"
  • What the hell is with the title?: "It's *like* love, baby, just ... minus all the caring and sharing and listening to your damned problems. OK?"
  • This will sound odd, but the softness of the coloring and the fine pattern on the wallpaper reminds me of John Singer Sargent portrait that I love.

Best things about this back cover:

  • Tommy and Irene - sounds like a one-hit wonder pop duo from 1963
  • Carella and Hawes - sounds like a crime-fighting duo from 1974
  • "ourselfs" - ouch
  • Authentic imitation wood paneling! Really, one of the awesomest design choices in modern back cover art history

Page 123~

"Miscolo!" he yelled.
"Yo!" Miscolo yelled back from the Clerical Office.
"Bring in some iodine and some Band-Aids, will you?"
"Yo!" Miscolo answered.

~RP

5 comments:

BikerPuppy said...

Note to self: If participating in lovers' suicide pact, try to make it look less obvious so the cops don't waste their time.

Pete said...

"Oh, Steve, I'm tired of you and your shadow puppets. Can't we just get back to hanging drapery?"

Perfect, just perfect.

Amazon Barbie said...

As an Italian-American, why is it our characters always do that "yo"? We can't say anything more intelligent as that?! Heeeeeyyyyyyy......... =)

capewood said...

ourselfs?

the.effing.librarian said...

"What good are these hands without a gun?"

"What good is this body without clothes? ... Oh, right."