Metallica-inspired 'Master of Puppets' Art Print Boxcar to really make it clear

to really make it clear that this was one story and one song filtered through two lenses

The Beat (The English Beat in North America) had a big hit with 'Mirror In The Bathroom' and it remains one of my all-time favourites

The Police

since that's also a key lyric/narrative theme

Metallica-inspired 'Master of Puppets' Art Print Boxcar to really make it clearI'm not the first to combine Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' with vintage pulp paperback covers, I discovered, but I wasn't very impressed with the others I found online. There are a number of classic marionette covers in the genre, e. g. by Paul Rader, but most of them have that sexual angle, with some pretty woman pulling someone else's strings for carnal kicks and personal gratification. The song is about drug addiction, specifically cocaine, and