Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for December 28, 2021

from wizard to Prince…is that a step down?

Prince of wizards.

What a prince.

I gotta’ see who he drags out for puce.

Purple? I was thinking that was (or could be) Deep. Red + Blue makes Purple.

From the Red Fire comes Smoke with the Blue Water = “Smoke on the Water”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M

Looks like he wants to be the Artist Formerly Known As the Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

That magic will strike a chord with someone somewhere.

And I thought he’d conjures up the purple peoples.

Ironically, purple is the color of kings since regular peasants couldn’t afford the enormous costs of importing purple dye ingredients.

Aah, the Purple One was truly a wizard in his craft!

Terry Pratchett’s “Colour of Magic”…

Barney?

It was either going to be Prince or Deep Purple…

Purple Haze all in my eyes. Don’t know if it’s day or night. You’ve got me blowing, blowing my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

Shouldn’t the final panel be The King? You know, since The King and Prince were both quite… ummm… how to PC Woke put this? … Height Challenged?

If the song were different that would be really Deep.

Prince Wizard? The mind boggles. Purple Pain?

Um…..yellow?

I was expecting the Purple to be Deep. “Smoke on the Water….”

Prince was a genius! He’s flying with the doves now….

It will be nice to sing in Purple Rain

Prince over Hendrix!?! Ugh…

The Wizard! Uriah Heep!

Groovy!

This would work so much better as a Sunday. They don’t color the dailies in the newspaper, so all of this would be black-and-white.

Green lives matter. Blue ditto. Black ditto. Red ditto. Purple ditto.

The images fit the colours well – natural magic for green, watery magic for blue, sinister magic for black and fiery magic for red.

Completely missed Octarine. Sad.

Prince from MinneSNOWta

I thought that went out in the 1980’s????

He was the wizard of a thousand kings

And I chanced to meet him one night wandering

He told me tales and he drank my wine

Me and my magic man kind of feeling fine. . .

- Uria Heep