Sorcery 101 Chapter 1

by Kel McDonald

While learning magic, even a simple trip to the video store is complicated.

Genres: Comics, Webcomic

21 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 12, 2005

Reviews

[Edward Petersen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. Crap art and crap story. It was only 20 pages and I almost abandoned it.

[Valerie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kel McDonald's art style is refreshingly unique, and I've been following his Misfits of Avalon since it debuted on the interwebz. However, I never got too far into Sorcery 101 because the archive is enormous and reading comics on the screen too long makes my eyeballs bludgeon my skull from the inside out. Thankfull, the first few dozen chapters are now collected in an extremely heavy omnibus.

The story is a hodgepodge of magical lore set in a world where magic and magical creatures are all real, but only a select few actually believe in it and generally it isn't powerful enough to disrupt everyday life. The two societies coexist more or less parallel, but every once in a while, people are drawn across one border or another. The characters are fresh and it even features a werewolf/mage power couple which is probably my favorite kind of power couple.

It's a great series for fantasy genre fans and I recommend picking up the collection before sacrificing your vision to reading the rest online.

[Hana b · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have the initial collection of Sorcery 101 which was a smidgen of a book compared to this and I'm so happy I got on with the Kickstarter and received this heavy brute! Sorcery 101 is so much fun- the characters sometimes react a bit much but well, I've been reading Anne Bishop lately and all reactions seem tame compared to how her characters behave! Full color and lots of good adventuring for each of the characters, plus a couple of secrets revealed by the end of the book! I look forward to doing a couple reads through it.