REVIEW: The Magic Order II No.6

Mark Millar and Stuart Immonen cap off another volume of The Magic Order with this six issue ! Whereas the last issue featured plenty of city wide destruction with wands and magic words, this issue is focused on the towering of a Chtulu-level big bad that goes by the name Othol’endu (who honestly could have got more panel time) and just about everything else one would expect from a tale about magic tricks (wands, resurrections, and crowds that would make Zatanna envious) this side of Harry Potter.

Sprinkled with realism (one of the main characters busted out of a rehab in the previous issues just to join the fight to save the world), family feuds, gore (Immonen leaves nothing to the imagination of what happened to Remo on “Beat Street”), and heavy expletives – “The Magic Order II” No. 6 caps off another gem within the Millarverse with that typical Millar magic that those who respect his work love to see. Leaving enough room at the end for multiple characters to be revisited for spin-off series’ and sequels, readers can only wonder how long it will be until the next installment of the Magic Order hits the shelves. Until then, they can continue to salivate like myself over the attention to detail that Immonen took to Millar’s characters like the pen work on Cordellia’s pig tales, the cracks in one of the older character’s spectacles, and attempt to play “which body part is that” with the renderings of blood soaked remains that Immonen has brought to life with his pen, in not only this issue, but the one’s before it.

Yes, access to comic books has never been any bigger than now in 2022, so reader’s are never short of having something new to pick up and satisfy their taste’s in graphic entertainment, but Magic Order II has a special quality about it that will keep it from being lost in the shuffle, with enough packed in to just a single issue (like this conclusion itself) to keep reader’s revisiting this story for years to come. Hey, it’s magic!

Score : 3/5

(W) Mark Millar (A/CA) Stuart Immonen