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THE MAGIC ORDER 2 #6 (OF 6)
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STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Stuart Immonen
COLORS: David Curiel
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Stuart Immonen
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Stuart Immonen; Greg Tocchini
36pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (April 2022)
Rated M / Mature
The Magic Order created by Mark Millar at Netflix
The Magic Order 2 is a six-issue comic book miniseries written by Mark Millar and drawn by Stuart Immonen. It is a sequel to The Magic Order, a 2018-19 miniseries written by Mark Millar and drawn by Olivier Coipel. The Magic Order is a group of sorcerers, magicians, and wizards that protects humanity from darkness and from monsters of impossible sizes. Colorists David Curiel and Sunny Gho and letterer Clem Robins complete the creative team of the current series.
The Magic Order 2 finds The Magic Order and its new leader, Cordelia Moonstone (an “escapologist”), caught in a turf war. Their adversaries are Victor Korne and his group of Eastern European warlocks whose ancestors the Order once banished.
The Magic Order 2 #6 opens and it seems as if Victor Korne has won. He has used the ancient Egyptian talisman, the Stone of Thoth, to summon the creature, Othoul-Endu, from the “Outer Dark.” With the creature's power, Korne can think anything and it will happen.
A wayward son and a child will ride to the Order's rescue. But for the Order, nothing will be the same … even if they survive.
THE LOWDOWN: As I wrote in my reviews of the fourth and fifth issues: with each issue, The Magic Order 2 surpasses it predecessor. That is quite the accomplishment, as the first miniseries, The Magic Order, was and is awesome, but the imagination of Mark Millar is like a magic wand. Now, The Magic Order 2 #6 closes this great series.
I feel comfortable saying that The Magic Order series is the best English-language, magical fantasy comic book franchise of the moment. Walt Disney Pictures and Marvel Studios may indeed deliver a gem in its upcoming film, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, but Marvel Comics' Doctor Strange comic book... Well, don't believe the hype. Steve Ditko's Doctor Strange showed the potential in comic books about magic, and with The Magic Order 2, Millar pays off on that potential.
Artist Stuart Immonen and colorist David Curiel create a symphony of lightning and supernovas. I could feel the energy of Immonen and Curiel's work in my eyes. This story is alive, so alive that it feels like a curtain closing on an act rather than feeling like a finale of an arc.
Comic book readers who hate good comic books are not reading The Magic Order 2. So I ask again. Are you reading it, dear readers?
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Mark Millar and of The Magic Order will want to read The Magic Order 2.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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NITA HAWES' NIGHTMARE BLOG #6
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STORY: Rodney Barnes
ART: Szymon Kudranski
COLORS: Luis Nct with mar and Silvestre Galotto
LETTERS: Marshall Dillon
EDITOR: Greg Tumbarello
COVER: well-BEE
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Jason Shawn Alexander
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S. (April 2022)
Rated “M/ Mature”
Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander
“The Fire Next Time” Part VI: “Revelations”
Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is a comic book series created by Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander. Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is written by Barnes. It has been drawn by the artists Jason Shawn Alexander, well-BEE, and Patrick Reynolds, with Szymon Kudranski being the current artist. Colorist Luis Nct and letterer by Marshall Dillon complete the creative team. The series focuses on a woman who is on a quest to root out the evil in her city.
In Baltimore, Maryland, which some call “Bodymore, Murderland,” there is a woman named Dawnita “Nita” Hawes. She is the owner of “Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog” where citizens can contact Nita when they have a problem of a supernatural or paranormal nature. Nita has just begun her quest to root the evil out of her city – with the help of her dead brother, Jason.
As Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog #6 (“Revelations”) opens, Jason chats with Anansi the Spider-God, about his life and about Nita. Her first case is a hot mess, and Hell is threatening to spill over into the land of the living. Now, Jason and Anansi must travel to Hell to free Nita from the one of the four demon kings, Corson, who snatched her soul from her body. Now, he won't let go, but maybe it isn't necessarily Corson's power that is keeping her in Perdition.
Meanwhile, an elderly, wheel-chair bound Steve Carpenter waits in his mansion for a visit from the man he and his late business partner, Harry Boartfield, screwed over. That would be one “Howlin'” Henry Hawkins, legendary blues singer and currently possessed by Corson. Can Nita free her ass in time to save Carpenter's old white ass?
THE LOWDOWN: Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog is a spin-off of Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander's hit vampire comic book, Killadelphia. Nita's connections to the series play a substantial part in this opening story arc, “The Fire Next Time,” which has now come to an end.
As dark as this series has been, writer Rodney Barnes has found time for humor, and this sixth issue shows that the supernatural are willing to talk shit to one another even with all Hell on the line. In a strange way, it makes the threat of danger more dangerous or more threatening. This is another reason why Nita reminds me of John Constantine and his dark fantasy and multitude of moods series, Hellblazer. However, thus far, Barnes does not make Nita all-powerful, and it seems that he will grow the character before our very eyes. What is she really and who or what will she be?
Artist Szymon Kudranski offers a mix of graphical storytelling styles – from clean line work and a smooth brushstroke to jarring and pitch-black compositions for the panels in Hell and from Hell. Kudranski captures the series' signature – hope and damnation – and he conveys the right moods for a story arc that has an ending and also lingering elements and plot lines.
So, wow! What a ride. The series takes a quick break, which gives you, dear readers, a chance to read this first case in Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog
I READS YOU RECOMMENDS: Fans of Killadelphia and of the original Hellblazer will want Nita Hawes' Nightmare Blog.
A+
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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