The Magic Order Volume 1

by Mark Millar, Olivier Coipel (Artist)

Overview

"Contains materially originally published in single magazine form as The magic order #1-6"—Copyright page.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534308718
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	04/23/2019
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	402,977
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	16 Years

About the Author

Mark Millar is a New York Times best-selling comic-book writer, Hollywood producer and President of Netflix’s Millarworld Division in Los Angeles. Mark and his wife Lucy sold their company to Netflix in 2017 and their first series from the world’s biggest streaming platform is Jupiter’s Legacy, an eight-part superhero blockbuster in 2021.

His previous work includes KINGSMAN, KICK-ASS, WANTED, OLD MAN LOGAN, SUPERMAN: RED SON and CIVIL WAR. Old Man Logan was the inspiration for Hugh Jackman’s LOGAN movie and Civil War was the inspiration for Marvel’s CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR. His Superman graphic novel RED SON was adapted in 2020 as an animated movie and is the biggest-selling Superman graphic novel in history. Civil War remains Marvel’s biggest-selling graphic novel of all time.

Editorial Reviews

06/28/2019

The Magic Order has been a responsibility and a boon to the Moonstone dynasty for centuries, secretly protecting humanity from dark beings and dire enchantments. But one of their own, the unstable Madame Albany, is unhappy with the status quo and feels she should have been made the head of the family. Instead, the mantle passed to the eminently more even-keeled Leonard, the aging but popular stage magician and current patriarch. With the Moonstone children scattered—black sheep Cordelia makes a passable career as an escapologist but cannot be counted upon to do the right thing, Regan owns a nightclub and doesn't possess quite the power of his siblings, their best hope, Gabriel, renounced his heritage after his young daughter was killed in a magical mishap—is it possible they can reunite to convince the greatest magician of the age to return to the fold, or will they be felled in Madame Albany's evil extravaganza? VERDICT Treating the magician's heritage like a mob family, Millar (Civil War) and Coipel (Avengers vs. X-Men) deliver a blunt, adult thrill ride with some excellent twisty-twists that will keep even genre veterans guessing as to their resolution.—Douglas Rednour, Georgia State Univ. Libs., Atlanta

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