Aug 06
Click for full imageTwo words for you…. pirates vs kinky police officers. Well you know what I mean! Have the officers in long knee highs and holding a large batons. Have a large magic beam hitting a stereotypical pirate in the chest and him grimacing in pain. It’s almost too perfect.
(Average: 6.33 out of 10)
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August 6th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Can you see the ninjas? Can you?
June 9th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
This has to be the most awkward book title ever.
June 13th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
The author’s name is fairly unpronounceable at first glance. Unsure of which syllables need the emphasis.
I read most of the Recluse saga books a number of years ago in my early teens, and picked up one or two of the later ones as they were released. And i will admit i loved them. I knew at the time they were extremely formulaic and the main characters in each book had identical personalities, and i even remember spoting a fair number of typos, but for whatever reason i enjoyed the very casual writing style. I don’t think i would enjoy a re-read, but they hold a special place in my heart because “The Magic of Recluce” was the first fantasy book i purchased with my own money after i borrowed Lord of the Rings off my brother.
However, the covers on the books are some of the worst i’ve ever read in public, i’m not even sure i appreciated their badness at the time. If i bought this again, i wouldnt make eye contact with the shot assistant and it would be straight into a brown paper bag
btw, I spy Adam Roberts’ “Swiftly”.
January 4th, 2012 at 6:05 pm
It’s magic-using Nazis *and* brightly-colored pirates, all awkwardy posed in some of the least convincing sepia brown architecture this side of one of those miniature ceramic Christmas cottages.
January 5th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
The characters on the cover look very much like miniatures, the sort used in RPGs…
Which is of course the selling point — the target audience is more familiar with painted RPG miniatures than real people.
November 25th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
UNNATURALLY ORANGELIT.
November 26th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
What is that they’re standing on? Rice wafers?
November 26th, 2012 at 5:48 pm
Everybody limbo!
October 23rd, 2013 at 9:02 pm
I always read the title as ‘Natural Odor-mage’. I guess that’s a mage that doesn’t wear scented deodorants…
August 25th, 2015 at 2:10 am
Bad anatomy strikes again. And given that this is a fantasy setting, where’d that man get his raygun?
January 1st, 2016 at 12:50 pm
“Confess, English schweinhund! Ve haff spells of making you talk!”
January 1st, 2016 at 12:53 pm
Is this magic land in HO scale or 1:72?
December 4th, 2020 at 6:17 am
It’s a safe bet that the author won the Creative Spelling award in Lower School.
December 4th, 2020 at 7:55 am
Kinky Nazis have the longest lightsabres
December 4th, 2020 at 9:25 am
Hey, Dandini! Wait, you can’t all be Dandini…
December 4th, 2020 at 11:09 am
My brain can’t stop itself in trying to convince me that this is really a ‘Wheel of Time’ book.
December 4th, 2020 at 11:55 am
Magical Nazis and Howard Pyle style pirates together? Can ninjas and gorillas with jetpacks be far behind?
(And I see SI was there way before me. Sneaky, like a Ninja, with his clever “comment nine years ago” strategy)
“Hey, Hans. Why do you get a magic zap-ring to fight pirates and I don’t?”
“I’m afraid your Schwartz is much too small to use it, Bertold.”
To follow up on jaouad at #7, those are clearly rice crispies treats. (The magic ring probably came in the box).
December 4th, 2020 at 2:52 pm
‘Zap me all ye want, Fritz-me-lad,yer laser-pointer has no effect on the likes of Cap’n Disco. Now, ’tis the chin fer thee.. Chin chin chinny-chin-chin. And let that be a lesson to ee”.
‘Dumkopf! Ve haff vays of making you socially-distance’.
December 4th, 2020 at 4:14 pm
Pirates, and Nazis, and Cops. Oh my!
December 4th, 2020 at 4:52 pm
After Thomas Kinkade used a Winnie-the-Pooh statue as a pissoir, he had to hire brownshirts to protect his home from angry Disney pirates.
December 5th, 2020 at 4:38 am
I’ve looked at “Natural Ordermage” several times and it still looks only partially and badly translated from German. And that was before I looked at the uniforms, even.
@Queen K: and he probably would. But they kept hiring him anyway.
Random thought of the day: while doing a web search for the Kinkade-pees-on-Pooh (heh) story, I came across the question “How do I clean a Thomas Kinkade painting?’ My instantaneous thought: Turpentine. Maybe acetone? Fire?
Also, for some reason he repeatedly yelled “Codpiece!” at a Siegfried and Roy show. One wonders about him looking at S&R’s naughty bits instead of the tigers.
December 5th, 2020 at 3:57 pm
Auditions for the coveted sixth member slot when Village People started got a bit fractious.
December 5th, 2020 at 10:30 pm
Two pirates, a cop, and a Nazi with a laser walk into a book cover.
@Tat: indeed.
December 6th, 2020 at 9:50 pm
@GSS ex-noob: Tor, alas, didn’t get the joke.
December 6th, 2020 at 10:01 pm
@Bruce: and thus they were the joke. As proved by this posting.
Apparently all the early Tor artists later moved to you-know-where en masse. Tor eventually got competent artists and layout people, unlike… publisher who musl not be named.