foxley for a great old timey action shot!
Ajax_X for me.
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Time to tally the votes!
1 vote each: CaptCleghorn, ChadH, foxley, K7P5V, kin, MRP, worstblogever, Zelena
2 votes each: Ajax_X, Iron Maiden, Kirby101, Scott Taylor
3 votes each: Nschornhorst
and our winner with 5 votes---ROB ALLEN!!
If anyone wants to double check my tally, feel free!
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Congrats to Rob Allen. And thanks to Riv86672 for the vote.
Congrats to Rob Allen!
If only this was a syringe rather than a dentist's drill… sigh.
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"一人じゃないから。" AI、『Story』。
"ヒロ、お前を信じてる。" タダシ、『ベイマックス』。
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Congratulations to Rob Allen!
And thanks to kjn for the vote and Iron Maiden for the mention!
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Yay, Rob Allen!
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
Congrats Rob Allen, though TBH, it still bothers me that the word Vaccination is in the title and the winning cover is about drug abuse and addiction.
Maybe it wouldn't bother me so much if RL situation was different.
Though I do know that this contest was well intentioned.
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Congrats to Rob, and thank you Squirrel and nx for the votes.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Congratulations to Rob Allen for a cover which handles a real issue, but in an exploitative fashion. It was indeed, the GL/GA 85 and 86 of its time. Addiction is a major problem but not every attempted solution is a good one.
As for the peak of the week, this contest's explanation of what the captain has learned is going to be joke free. As a type 1 diabetic, he has been a daily user of hypodermic needles since the summer of '69. For him, the item was a painful, stress filled symbol of keeping him alive. I understand and feel for anyone who is even slightly disturbed by the theme this week. Trust me, shots are rarely comfortable even if they save your life.
And thanks to Iron Maiden for the Latverian vote.
Rob, I concur with those who wish to see a happier, more cheerful theme this week. As another captain often commanded , "Make it so".
I’ll don the mask and wear the cape
If I am super, how can I wait?
Congratulations to Rob Allen, and a thank you to ed2962 for the vote and Nschornhorst for the mention!
When it comes to exploitative (sexist, racist, sensationalist et c) covers, I'm of two minds about them. They are part of our genre's history and should be remembered as such. They are also something that can be triggering, off-putting, or serve to drive people away, both today or when they were published. I think the contest should be about remembering the past, but most of all it should be fun. As such, I think it behooves us participants to to be careful to post more exploitative covers when the contest already has a few.
I should also mention that I myself will be very unlikely to vote for an exploitative cover, and I'm sure there are other posters here who feel the same way. At the same time, I realise that we all have individual limits on what we consider exploitiative or in poor taste.
«Speaking generally, it is because of the desire of the tragic poets for the marvellous that so varied and inconsistent an account of Medea has been given out» (Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [4.56.1])