Mark Millar

The Magic Order #1

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends, and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness' unless the darkness gets them first. Magic meets the Mob in THE MAGIC ORDER, as five families of magiciansÑsworn to protect our world for generations must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. Collects THE MAGIC ORDER #1-6

The Magic Order Vol. 1

Fraser Simons

Gorgeous artwork and a couple interesting twists. In typical Millar fashion, the premise has a lot of promise while the execution is bizarre. World building is pretty much not a thing, as no “rules” are ever defined. Shit just happens, and some of it is interesting and cool, but it becomes arbitrary because the plotting only sets up the twist, and the rest is just hand waving. 

Could easily have been better had a. Inch of the cool magical reveals been foreshadowed and anything at all had been codified in world building. It’s all dialogue so you end up with people saying stuff everyone already knows, often in a stilted manner. It’s a fun story but disappointing because it actually holds so much promise.


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Did anything else think a more rational and interesting twist for an escapologist to make, especially when it’s foreshadowed she was fucking around going through time, is she says she already got out of it by escaping back in time to prevent these events and then taking over, resurrecting the kid, etc etc etc. Would have made her way more competent than her having read the book because she wasn’t supposed to, super handwovey yet again.

We live in a world where we've never seen a monster, and The Magic Order is the reason we sleep safely in our beds. Magic meets the Mob in The Magic Order, as five families of magicians -- sworn to protect our world for generations -- must battle an enemy who's picking them off one by one. By day, they live among us as our neighbors, friends and co-workers, but by night they are the sorcerers, magicians and wizards that protect us from the forces of darkness... unless the darkness gets them first. Collects THE MAGIC ORDER #1-6.

The Magic Order Volume 1

Jara

Nora 

Ivar K. 

Abi Baker

Jasmine

Vanessa 

This explosive miniseries climax is a high-octane magical battle of good versus evil, as the remaining Magic Order wizards make a last stand against Madame Albany and the forces of darkness. Family bonds are tested, blood is spilled, and black magic threatens life as we know it.

The Magic Order #1

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