Annotated Chapter 33 Cover
We’ve done hands covers before, we’ve done weapons covers before, but I think this is our first hands-waving-weapons cover! Woo-hoo, woo-hoo! Gas-to-ni-AY, Gas-to-ni-AY!
This chapter is still fairly calm, but it sets the wheels in motion a bit more than the last chapter’s work brunch. And yet the gathering of arms depicted here is probably the least interesting part of it for me: the story also has a couple of crackling confrontations in Sepia World and the introduction of one to seven new characters. Depends on how you count, but the one definite and six maybes will all be pretty dang important to upcoming developments.
I’ve been puzzling over E-Merl’s wand for a couple of minutes. Sky elf gift? Don’t think he uses it in combat, does he? Did we show him getting this wand somewhere and I forgot? I thought the bangle was the big addition… Maybe we just didn’t want the poor guy to be the only fightin’ Peacemaker excluded here.
Yeah “E-Merl’s wand” was the first thing to catch my attention here. If they’re all using their weapon of choice here and Syr’nj has the grenade instead of her buckler or sword/dagger, he could’ve held a fiery fist. Or his ring or something. Also his constant poverty makes me think he’d have a banged up wand if any, haha.
Eh~ it’s no big deal anyways, I guess.
Maybe the wand is an illusion? Maybe E-Merl didn’t want to be left out so he conjured an illusion of a wand.
I Chuck this into the ‘maybe you are overthinking it’ category.
It pretty clear what this cover represents (a call to arms) It would really rob each cover of the individual magic if they only depicted a scene from the story itself like a enlarged panel. I mean, did we ever see the team eat that soup?
True, but THIS scene, including the wand, WILL appear later in the chapter!
Is Rachel’s weapon really a bladed yardstick? This detail always throws me out of it, like, where else would such an implement exist except in a comic? lol
It’s a holdover from early days, when her original nunnery, the Sisterhood of the Bloodshot Eyeball, was a bit more cartoony in its imagery. (And apologies if you know this, but the root of the joke is the anecdote of schoolmarm nuns whacking students’ knuckles with rulers to punish misconduct.)