The Vatican

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it’s not a parody. Sweet mother of Elvis, it’s not a parody!

 

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Hitch
9 years ago

You know…you gotta give this one points for just sheer…wacky meets bravado. For all we know, this is a send-up (as hinted at by the artwork), I hope. Devoutly. (ha! See what I did there?).

OK, so: taking bets here: who is the Harrison-Ford/Indiana-Jones-cum-Jesuit (?)-priest here? I mean, whose face is that? It’s bugging me, I can’t quite put my finger on it. Some actor, somewhere. I initially thought about Robert Forster, but that’s not it. Not really even close. Ideas?

red
red
9 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

Reminds me of the guy on the left in this TV commercial, whoever that is. (Time-Warner commercial “Lie Detector”, couldn’t find a video or a better picture).

http://adwhois.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/TimeWarnerCommercial.jpg

Bottom – Ike
Top right – Ed Wynn
Top Left – George Washington and Thomas Jefferson (according to recent news stories)
The alien has a Godfather aura.

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
9 years ago
Reply to  Hitch

Orson Wells before he got fat?

Alf Rehn
Alf Rehn
9 years ago

Sweet baby Jesus, this book has a trailer, and it is as good as the cover!

https://youtu.be/g6ecrYzep9Q

Lousy Book Trailers, anyone? Anyone?

James F. Brown
James F. Brown
9 years ago

Well, “parody” is in the eyes (and mind) of the reader. Not the author!

This is definitely parody. Made even more delicious by the author’s goofball paranoid mindset. 🙂

Ericb
Ericb
9 years ago

He should have gone for the complete set and put the British royal family and the Masons somewhere. I see some excessive blank space in the area around Ike.

Hitch
9 years ago

I really admire the UFO-cum-ceiling-fan/light doodah, though. That’s pretty groovy. I have a 5-y.o. boy relative that would think that’s the cat’s pajamas…

@red: no…I just can’t pull it from the brainpan. We’ve all seen him, but I just can’t figure out who the hell that is.

@Ericb: LOL!

L-Plate Pen
L-Plate Pen
9 years ago

Don’t stand too close to that ‘F’, Mr. alien – it’ll have your eye out…

oof! Too late…