“This has to be the worst class of graduate student wizards I’ve ever seen. The iguana is supposed to be on your head and the cat is supposed to be on your shoulder. Alligator boy has taken three incompletes in basic metamorphosing—you’re supposed to transmute into a bird, Roy, a bird! Only iguana girl is taking notes and have you ever tried reading her handwriting? It’s atrocious. If you don’t wise up—wise, wizard, get it?—you’re all losing your funding lines, taking the terminal master’s degree and teaching high school alchemy for the rest of your careers.”
Of course it’s the cat that is breaking the fourth wall. Such attitude.
Also, it’s rare to see a Rowena cover that doesn’t feature a woman that is 90% naked. I can only guess that, under those robes, they are totally nude and Sir Mixalot-worthy.
November 12th, 2018 at 10:12 am
“OK, just pop the lizard and the cat in the cauldron and we can eat!”
November 12th, 2018 at 12:23 pm
Merlin’s meth lab
November 12th, 2018 at 1:09 pm
Now I’m imagining that somewhere in the book there’s this tense scene:
Walter the White Wizard: Now… Say my name.
Apprentice: (haltingly) Paracelsus.
Walter the White Wizard:: You’re goddamn right!
November 12th, 2018 at 1:26 pm
“This has to be the worst class of graduate student wizards I’ve ever seen. The iguana is supposed to be on your head and the cat is supposed to be on your shoulder. Alligator boy has taken three incompletes in basic metamorphosing—you’re supposed to transmute into a bird, Roy, a bird! Only iguana girl is taking notes and have you ever tried reading her handwriting? It’s atrocious. If you don’t wise up—wise, wizard, get it?—you’re all losing your funding lines, taking the terminal master’s degree and teaching high school alchemy for the rest of your careers.”
November 12th, 2018 at 1:28 pm
Of course it’s the cat that is breaking the fourth wall. Such attitude.
Also, it’s rare to see a Rowena cover that doesn’t feature a woman that is 90% naked. I can only guess that, under those robes, they are totally nude and Sir Mixalot-worthy.
November 12th, 2018 at 1:28 pm
“Censered”—nice tag, Tag.
November 12th, 2018 at 3:16 pm
No one dared to push pease porridge beyond nine days until now.
November 12th, 2018 at 4:52 pm
I’m really curious as to what classic wizard man is brewing up in that cauldron, with the DRAMATIC HAND GESTURES he’s making.
November 12th, 2018 at 10:49 pm
What does Crocodile Man think about iguana familiar, I wonder? Any family feeling?
Is the cat the familiar or the apprentice wizard?
Is the woman in the background the lowest-ranking one, neither having nor being an animal?
@JuanPaul: they’re definitely all starkers beneath their robes. We can only see the head of woman-behind-cauldron; she might be showing it all.
Cat may be thinking of getting a new agent after this cover.
@Anna T: perhaps he conjured up the terrible squiggly font, coalescing out of the smoke?
November 13th, 2018 at 5:14 am
I would have gone with a more rhymy “Alchemy & Academy”.
November 14th, 2018 at 3:30 am
Are those badly drawn children, or just a very large wizard?
November 14th, 2018 at 11:44 pm
@Bruce: Yes?
I think it’s a very large wizard.