last train to Nuremberg

Revisiting Earthsea canon via googlebooks has revealed to me the entirely bullshit new cover for A Wizard of Earthsea, which had the most beautiful debut cover way back when, the one with the duotone woodcut and good typefaces, and has had terrible luck with whitewashing and malarkey ever since. But! the previous Honky Ged movie tie-in cover was, it seems, a bridge too far: whoever the sack of dicks is that makes these dumbass decisions went for some nice coded dehumanization instead. What's that you say, the red-brown protagonist also spends some time flying around as a hawk? Excellent! Put that on the cover. What a relief. Visible diversity narrowly avoided once again, blessed be the name of Blondy Jesus.