Drunken Comics Rage

Yeah yeah yeah, I've been slacking. I've read several things as of late, and I'll try to get to them all over the next week. First up is part of our "spend some of your friends money" $2.99 experiment. DVO picked this one out for me, and it didn't seem like a bad idea. Not something I would have normally grabbed either, so it worked out ok.

Right off the bat let me say that while the book isn't bad, I'm not sure I'm going to run out and grab issue #2. I might flip though #2 to see if anything interesting happens, or maybe check out the rest of the series to see if one of them grabs me, but don't hold your breath.

The story is more or less sort of an origin story, which I'm never really fond of. Usually only because they're pretty slow, or outright boring. In this one, The Scarlet Witch is still a young girl right before she gets her powers. She's a gypsy and gets invited to join a secret coven of scantily clad witches because they know that someday she will be incredibly powerful, because they believe that she'll be the one to master the worlds of both magic and science.

Once they get the basics out of the way, there's a little bit of a fight between them and the book's bad guy, until Chthon shows up. It's pretty clear that Chthon is going to be the series' bad guy, at least from the look of things. In the scrap, Scarlet Witch uses her powers for the first time, it all gets wrapped up, and then they send her back to her parents and plan to watch over her. I would think that the next issue would have her grown, and might be a little more interesting, so we'll have to see.

There are actually two halves to the book. The second half is about Ian McNee, who is looking for the "four cornerstones of magic". He's a mage, and from what I gather actually challenged Doc Strange for the Sorcerer Supreme title at some point. He's working for the ancient goddess Oshtur to cast a spell that will revive Heka-Nut to save all of magic. Heka-Nut, I kid you not. Not sure who the hell came up with that name, but it was a bad idea.  Sounds like an Egyptian candy bar.

The story is pretty straight forward. Ian jumps in the water, meets up with bad underwater half serpent looking chicks, tricks them into saying something bad about their god, and gets the Serpent Crown, which is one of the four corner stones.  It wasn't that great of a story, but it was more interesting than the Scarlet Witch part.

In looking at it, I forgot Black Knight was one of the four books in the Mystic Arcana series, along with Magik  and Sister Grimm who I've never heard of. I might look through the Black Knight book to see if it's any good. The downside of that is if it is, I might end up with all of these, and therefore need to smack DVO upside the head for getting me into this. We'll see.

Filed under: Ghostshark's Rants, The $2.99 Experiment