From my brilliant buddy, Spikedru:

[This] is a particularly fine example of late 80s awfulness. I could start on the guy, with his open-to-the-naval shirt tucked into stupidly tight jeans and his manly pose. Talk about a gun as penile compensation. But the girl: is it just me or does she look like she really needs [to take] a pee? She’s sort of holding the pose, but she’s edged a leg across to stop her peeing in her pants. Or maybe she has thrush and is desperate for them to stop posing so she can go have a really good scratch?

Spikedru usually sends these covers to me in emails, so there I was, perusing my emails when this one jumped at me. You gotta click on the damned thing and enlarge it to get the full effect. It’s really quite striking. I think my jaw actually dropped. I really don’t know what’s going on here, but all I can really say is… the hero looks a little stinky. You know, out there in the wild, where mercenary types like him drop everything they’re doing, and play bodyguard to a rich man’s daughter because the rich man offered him a lot of money, and there’s a little girl in the village that he’s watching over who is really sick and needs medicine… well, let’s just say that hygiene is probably not his first priority.

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