The Magic Order Volume 1

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. Spoilers! - - - - - - - - - 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.