close
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20170715163951/http://salmongutter.blogspot.com/search/label/Joe%20Millard
Showing posts with label Joe Millard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Millard. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Paperback 792: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly / Joe Millard (Award Western AQ1495)

Paperback 792: Award Western AQ1495 (4th ptg, 1975)

Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Author: Joe Millard
Cover artist: Uncredited

Yours for: $9

AwardAQ1495

Best things about this cover:

  • Man, my brain really, Really wants the Oxford comma there.
  • This cover manages to be plain vanilla and superbadass simultaneously.
  • There should be a word for this style of cover art (prevalent in '60s and '70s) where different elements are montaged into one monstrous blob / human pyramid.
  • Facial expressions here are all fantastic, especially on about-to-be-hanged guy.


AwardAQ1495bc

Best things about this back cover:

  • Aha, Tuco! So *that's* where "Breaking Bad" got it. Plagiarism!!
  • Oh, Tuco. Why don't you come to your senses? You been out riding fences for so long now.
  • This description is making me want to pull this movie out and watch it right now. My morning *is* kind of wide open …

Page 123~

Tuco lifted his own gun out of the concealing suds and shot him precisely through the adam's apple.

"When you're going to shoot somebody," he said coldly to the twitching figure on the floor, "shoot him. Don't stand around trying to talk a man to death."

Oh yeah, I'm definitely watching this Right Now.

~RP

[Follow Rex Parker on Twitter and Tumblr]