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Lady Mechanika Volume 6 HC, $29.99

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Monkey Meat The Summer Batch #2 (Of 5)(Cover A Juni Ba), $3.99

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#IReadsYou Review: THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #6

THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #6 (OF 6)

IMAGE COMICS/Netflix

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Dike Ruan

COLORS: Giovanna Niro

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Dike Ruan with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Javier Fernández with Alejandro Sánchez; Dike Ruan

36pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (August 2023)

Rated M / Mature

The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix

The Magic Order 4 is a six-issue miniseries from writer Mark Millar and artist Dike Ruan.  The is the fourth installment of The Magic Order series, which began with the 2018-19 miniseries written by Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel.  The Magic Order is a band of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards – with a focus on the Moonstone family – that live ordinary lives by day, but protect humanity from darkness and monsters of impossible sizes by night.  Colorist Giovanna Niro and letterer Clem Robins complete the series creative team.

The Magic Order focuses on a coup within the Order, one that has left the Moonstones defeated … seemingly … by the dark one who always wanted to rule the order – the supposedly defeated Madame Albany.  Now, to save everything, Cordelia Moonstone, the now deposed leader, will have to go way down in the dirty dirty to restore order.

The Magic Order 4 #6 opens as Madame Albany prepares to face the consequences of bringing the Wizard King from the world/dimension known as “Kolthur” back to Earth.  However, Albany wants to face the consequences.  It's all part of her quest for revenge, even if it means she goes back to being dead.  The only ones who are around to face the Wizard King are several apprentice wizards.

Madame Albany isn't the only one with a trick or two up her magical sleeves.  How will Cordelia defeat a being of infinite power?  And can she finally end the long-running “wizard wars?”

THE LOWDOWN:  In late 2021, the Millarworld division of Netflix began providing me with PDF copies of its comic books for review.  That has given me the opportunity to read many Millarworld titles, especially my favorite, The Magic Order.

Because of The Magic Order 4 #6, I can justify saying that The Magic Order series is the most interesting comic book about magic that I've read since Alan Moore and J.H. Williams' Promethea.  I can also safely say that The Magic Order is the most inventive and intense comic book about magic since Steve Ditko and Marvel Comics' Strange Tales unleashed Doctor Strange on newsstands.  When the Netflix series adaptation of The Magic Order arrives, I hope that it is every bit as weird as Disney and Marvel Studios 2016 film, Doctor Strange.

Writer Mark Millar never disappoints with The Magic Order.  It seems that he loves his readers enough to keep throwing one surprise after another at us.  Not only does he cleverly resolve this fourth volume with something he's previously referenced, but he also drops a bomb on the last page about what is coming in the next series.  And the surprises certainly explode under Clem Robins' lettering.

Artist Dike Ruan turned in some fabulous graphical storytelling in this series.  His every line and every brushstroke is an exercise in the intensity and insanity of dark magic.  Ruan made this series feel dangerous, and colorist Giovanna Niro made it all burn before our very eyes.  I hope this isn't the last we see of Ruan in this franchise.

The Magic Order 4 #6 is a delight from the first sound effect to the last caption box.  Dare I say, dear readers, that The Magic Order 4 is magical?

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 4.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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#IReadsYou Review: THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #5

THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #5 (OF 6)

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STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Dike Ruan

COLORS: Giovanna Niro

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Dike Ruan with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Dan Panosian; Dike Ruan

36pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (May 2023)

Rated M / Mature

The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix

The Magic Order 4 is a six-issue miniseries from writer Mark Millar and artist Dike Ruan.  The is the fourth installment of The Magic Order series, which began with the 2018-19 miniseries written by Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel.  The Magic Order is a band of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards – with a focus on the Moonstone family – that live ordinary lives by day, but protect humanity from darkness and monsters of impossible sizes by night.  Colorist Giovanna Niro and letterer Clem Robins complete the series creative team.

The Magic Order 4 focuses on a coup within the order, one that has left the Moonstones defeated … seemingly … by the dark one who always wanted to rule the order – the supposedly defeated Madame Albany.  Now, to save everything, Cordelia Moonstone, the now deposed leader, will have to go way down in the dirty dirty to restore order.

The Magic Order 4 #5 opens in the world/dimension known as “Kolthur,” the realm of the Wizard King.  Cordelia must face her brother, Perditus, her parents' eldest child, the one who was given to the Hordes of Kolthur when he was but a child.  Now, Perditus just wants to kill his li'l sis, Cordelia Moonstone.

It is looking like Cordelia won't be able to defeat her powerful sibling, but she must if she is going to return to Earth.  Madame Albany is already plotting to destroy reality.

THE LOWDOWN:  My favorite Mark Millar Netflix creation is The Magic Order.  It always surprises me, and before I read each issue I wonder not if, but how I will be surprised.  Every time I think I might creep away and choose a new Millarworld favorite to love, The Magic Order drags me back.

I mentioned in my review of the final issue of Millar's superhero miniseries, The Ambassadors, that he is really good at writing penultimate issues.  I referenced The Magic Order series as being great examples of what Millar can do with penultimate (second-to-last) and last issues.  The Magic Order 4 #5 perfectly encapsulates how well Millar sets up the penultimate issues of The Magic Order.  It's the end of the world and more, if our heroes can't save the day, and it feels like it.  I don't have any idea how the sixth issue will conclude this arc, but I'm sure it will be heart-stopping.

Artist Dike Ruan has turned in some of his best work here.  He creates the visual and graphical landscape of reality in the throes of madness as it approaches oblivion, and Giovanna Niro's colors lights it all on fire so that this issue resembles a view of a Hellscape.

So batten down the hatches, it's rough sailing to the end of this great big fuck-apocalypse of a miniseries.  If you want to really be here for the ending, dear readers, catch up on The Magic Order 4.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 4.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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#IReadsYou Review: THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #4

THE MAGIC ORDER 4 #4 (OF 6)

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STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Dike Ruan

COLORS: Giovanna Niro

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Dike Ruan with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jodie Muir; Dike Ruan

28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (April 2023)

Rated M / Mature

The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix

The Magic Order 4 is a six-issue miniseries from writer Mark Millar and artist Dike Ruan.  The is the fourth installment of The Magic Order series, which began with the 2018-19 miniseries written by Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel.  The Magic Order is a band of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards – with a focus on the Moonstone family – that live ordinary lives by day, but protect humanity from darkness and monsters of impossible sizes by night.  Colorist Giovanna Niro and letterer Clem Robins complete the series creative team.

The Magic Order 4 focuses on a coup within the order, one that has left the Moonstones defeated … seemingly … by the dark one who always wanted to rule the order – the supposedly defeated Madame Albany.  Now, to save everything, Cordelia Moonstone, the now deposed leader, will have to go way down in the dirty dirty to restore order.

The Magic Order 4 #4 opens with Cordelia and Francis King still captives in the world/dimension known as “Kolthur.”  Fellow prisoner, Ubris Obrughast, has informed the duo that the state of affairs within The Magic Order on Earth is well known in Kolthur.  This is the realm of the Wizard King, and currently that king is Perditus.  Who is Perditus?

Girl, he is the Moonstones' eldest son, the one who was given to the Hordes of Kolthur when he was but a child.  Now, Perditus just wants to kill his li'l sis.  And who might that be?  If you guessed Cordelia Moonstone, I won't disabuse you of that notion.

THE LOWDOWN:  My favorite Mark Millar Netflix creation is The Magic Order.  It always surprises me, and before I read each issue I wonder not if, but how I will be surprised.  Every time I think I might creep away and choose a new Millarworld favorite to love, The Magic Order drags me back.

Several years ago, a big name writer and big name artist launched a new Doctor Strange comic book series for Marvel Comics.  And they started off with a bang, presenting some kind of other-dimensional being that was determined to wipe out all magic.  The creature seemed like something rare – a true and genuine threat to Doctor Strange and everything for which he stood.  After a few issues, I began to think of this awesome new villain as less a great adversary and more a mere obstacle.

If Doctor Strange is the “Sorcerer Supreme” of Earth, as such, he is as much a danger as he is a paladin, both because of his power and his position.  The Magic Order is what a Doctor Strange comic book could never be, and that is be honest in its depiction of people wielding what is practically unlimited magical power.  People with that much power are a danger to themselves, to others, and to existence.  It is not so much about how power corrupts, but that they believe they are right.  Thus, they will frequently make decisions that ruin or destroy the lives of others.

In The Magic Order 4, more so than in the other series, writer Mark Millar and artist Dike Ruan just throw it in our faces.  These people with great powers of both creation and destruction seemingly live to create destruction.  Even the so-called heroic elements of The Magic Order are not really good for each other, including family members.  Just what will the hero have to do in order to fix things?

In The Magic Order 4, Millar and Ruan have created riveting, thrilling serial fiction.  They have corrupted me also; I am simultaneously fearful and hungry for the destruction that will come next.  I can't wait for the shit to really hit the fan!  No one is safe, and imagination and invention are the sires of the most horrible means of death and destruction.  I promise that Perditus and The Magic Order 4 #4 will make you come back for the fifth issue.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 4.

A+

10 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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