Mar 12
Max Bathroom Comments: “Look, he’s not with me, okay? I’ve never seen this guy before, honest…”
You might remember this from here.
Published 1987
Max Bathroom Comments: “Look, he’s not with me, okay? I’ve never seen this guy before, honest…”
You might remember this from here.
Published 1987
March 12th, 2024 at 12:34 pm
I know the wolf is supposed to be howling, but I can’t help thinking that it’s about to catch that red ball and demand some play time.
Either that, or it’s about to take a bite out of Lisa Goldstein.
March 12th, 2024 at 12:34 pm
If this was a series there could be a plaid magician.
March 12th, 2024 at 3:02 pm
Harry and Megan will be annoyed when they see how Kate’s doctored their photo.
March 12th, 2024 at 3:36 pm
I member seeing this act in Las Vegas. The wolf moved on after getting a better agent.
March 12th, 2024 at 4:05 pm
“Everything is on fire, there is a levitational skull about, and a wolf wants his dinner. Now is not the time to give a demonstration of progress in juggling your shiny red balls, Chad!”
March 12th, 2024 at 4:19 pm
When hiring a wizard for your quest, always check their references.
“I thought you said you were a magician!”
“Yes I am – I do birthdays, bar mitzvahs, and school outings! “
March 12th, 2024 at 4:26 pm
“Okay, right now it looks like the woman is avoiding eye contact with a street busker. I better throw in some “magical” looking stuff – a floating skull, some flames (what, almost out of orange? Green it is is then!)…and now what do I do with that empty space in back? Wolves are cool. right?”
March 12th, 2024 at 4:59 pm
‘Hey, good lookin’, wanna come on over and take a look at my Big Red Magician? Hey, come on! … Bitch.’
March 12th, 2024 at 5:04 pm
And now for something completely different.
https://voi.id/en/lifestyle/201360
March 12th, 2024 at 6:50 pm
@Fred: From your article:
“… the red magician never appeared without a real face and makeup.”
Sound advice.
March 13th, 2024 at 3:01 am
I would like to ask for Unicorns! being as the Unwin logo has such a prominent one up top. I know the Unicorn! isn’t part of the cover art, but c’mon, he’s the first thing you see.
Okay, previous cover we had a golem in the fires of whatever, and the magician had red robes as well as red hair. This one, he’s just a ginger in a suit, fallen from magick into juggling. His balls are red, but that might just be from the flames. The female was a frightened girl hiding; now she’s a serious woman who’s rightly unimpressed by the whole thing. And the Flamin’ Hot Golem has been replaced by a random skull and a wolf looking for two others to join on a kitchy t-shirt.
Quite the step down!
A check on Amazon shows it’s … a Holocaust story for tweens?!
@Tat: GSS!
@Bruce: That woman is never hiring this dork for a Ramadan party again.
@fred: I do appreciate your supplementary links; alas, as of this writing, their host is down. Perhaps it too is embarrassed — or overwhelmed with the more-than-one-request-per-month traffic GSS has sent.
March 13th, 2024 at 7:09 am
“Dude, do you even cast?”
March 13th, 2024 at 7:40 pm
The Red-Faced Magician – no one is impressed with magicking up fire anymore, so he’s moonlighting at the circus.
March 14th, 2024 at 12:46 pm
@GSS
“A check on Amazon shows it’s … a Holocaust story for tweens?!”
Honest injun, and it’s rather good.
March 14th, 2024 at 11:55 pm
@Max: I see it won big awards.
I don’t think this cover best represents it; the lava golem and the hiding girl as seen here previously looks to have much more to do with the actual plot.
March 15th, 2024 at 12:53 pm
@GSS
IIRC, he does have a set of magic balls as one of the tools he uses to cast spells and the golem isn’t a very big factor in the plot.
March 16th, 2024 at 1:13 am
@Max: I still maintain this is giving far fewer “Holocaust tween lead novel” vibes than the other.
March 18th, 2024 at 3:18 pm
@GSS
Don’t worry, the site has your back: this cover is definitely rated as being a bit worse than that one.
March 20th, 2024 at 11:35 am
Somehow, this also involves unicorns.