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Strange Academy (Single Issues) #13-18
Strange Academy: Wish-Craft
School life doesn't get any easier for the students of the mystic arts! When the Strange Academy kids go out for a night on the town in New Orleans, some of the students decide to take a tour of a famous NOLA graveyard - and you know how stories about teens in graveyards usually go! But Emily takes a very different field trip of her own - and the secret origin of Zoe Laveau will be revealed! Then, nothing can prepare you for a glimpse of the future of the Strange Academy - and the entire Marvel Universe. You won't believe your eyes! But which will be more brutal: battle class with Magik and Wong, or the school dance?! Who will find love, and whose heart will be broken? Plus: The ancient evil known as Gaslamp makes its intentions clear! Collecting STRANGE ACADEMY #13-18.
144 pages, Paperback
First published August 2, 2022
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Skottie Young
650 books1,044 followersSkottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.
Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.
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August 17, 2023
I really enjoyed The Strange Academy. This book is another great example. I prefer the rough and tumble version of a school of magic compared to the prestigious halls of Hogwarts.
Emotions are running high at the Strange Academy. A student has lost the one thing that made him special, how far will he go to get it back, and how many more will he drag down with him.
Peices of the Prophecy fall into place, taking Doyle to make a big decision. Emily, always trying to do her best, might have been the straw that breaks the camel's back.
This further highlights the importance of Doctor Strange. In some schools you might find students smarter than the teachers but her the students are so much more powerful than the teachers. A huge turning point in the Academy. I can't wait to the confrontation coming next.
Emotions are running high at the Strange Academy. A student has lost the one thing that made him special, how far will he go to get it back, and how many more will he drag down with him.
Peices of the Prophecy fall into place, taking Doyle to make a big decision. Emily, always trying to do her best, might have been the straw that breaks the camel's back.
This further highlights the importance of Doctor Strange. In some schools you might find students smarter than the teachers but her the students are so much more powerful than the teachers. A huge turning point in the Academy. I can't wait to the confrontation coming next.
July 10, 2022
With the death of Dr. Strange big changes are afoot at Strange Academy. Still I feel like enough isn't being revealed in these stories and the subplots are getting really scattered without any resolutions. Especially since this is final volume of this run, although there will be a new series with a new #1 out soon. Hopefully Young can tighten up the storytelling when it does.
Kudos to Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado for making this book look great every month without any fill in artists or needing help with even a single page.
Kudos to Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado for making this book look great every month without any fill in artists or needing help with even a single page.
August 18, 2022
I despise this series. It is quite possibly my least favorite comic book series ever written. It is neck-and-neck with the Children of the Atom miniseries by Vita Ayala, but at least that miniseries had some nice artwork and nice fight scenes with obscure 90s mutant villains. This rot?
The Humberto Ramos artwork is painful to look at. Characters always look melted and inhuman, even the ones who are supposed to look like ordinary vanilla humans. Then there is this huge surplus of nonhuman characters, some of whom are giant-size standing around in the background.
There are way too many characters to keep track of. Many of the students we only know two or three details about, tops. The ones we are supposed to consider "main" are fairly clear, and then the writer committed the most gag-worthy bit of exposition possible by having three of the students selected as possible "chosen ones." In the issue where that happened, I thought that Dr. Strange's comment about not wanting any "chosen ones" around was funny. That it was a smart bit of self awareness about tropes in YA fiction, especially where magic academies are concerned. But, no. Then it turned out to be something that was literally happening. Three of the main characters really are potential "chosen ones."
I just want this title gone. Please. For the love of God.
This volume is possibly the worst of the bunch. The writers chose to insult the readers by indulging that trope where characters are coded as evil for daring to want power. Never mind the fact that comic book readers are all fanboys who WANT POWERS. So, when Calvin loses his magic jacket, and is forced to become basically the only non-magical kid at a magic academy? Of course he has to become a villain. The writers went one step further and turned this trope into a metaphor for drug dealing. Because, Lord knows comic book readers reading all this love to be told that adolescents who want superpowers are really just evil drug dealers.
The Humberto Ramos artwork is painful to look at. Characters always look melted and inhuman, even the ones who are supposed to look like ordinary vanilla humans. Then there is this huge surplus of nonhuman characters, some of whom are giant-size standing around in the background.
There are way too many characters to keep track of. Many of the students we only know two or three details about, tops. The ones we are supposed to consider "main" are fairly clear, and then the writer committed the most gag-worthy bit of exposition possible by having three of the students selected as possible "chosen ones." In the issue where that happened, I thought that Dr. Strange's comment about not wanting any "chosen ones" around was funny. That it was a smart bit of self awareness about tropes in YA fiction, especially where magic academies are concerned. But, no. Then it turned out to be something that was literally happening. Three of the main characters really are potential "chosen ones."
I just want this title gone. Please. For the love of God.
This volume is possibly the worst of the bunch. The writers chose to insult the readers by indulging that trope where characters are coded as evil for daring to want power. Never mind the fact that comic book readers are all fanboys who WANT POWERS. So, when Calvin loses his magic jacket, and is forced to become basically the only non-magical kid at a magic academy? Of course he has to become a villain. The writers went one step further and turned this trope into a metaphor for drug dealing. Because, Lord knows comic book readers reading all this love to be told that adolescents who want superpowers are really just evil drug dealers.
October 11, 2023
This is definitely the best Marvel comic geared toward young people I've read since Vaughan's Runaways, if you've been reluctant on account of the cartoonish art and pocket-sized format I suggest diving in.
April 3, 2023
Un buen giro a una premisa sobada. El formato “escuela” existe en todos los multiversos, incluido el OrtizDePinedoverse, pero la historia no deja de ser divertida e interesante (giro tras giro tras giro al puro estilo Tonya Harding) y el arte del Profe Ramos ejecutado con maestría, por ejemplo, ver el cambio de los personajes a su versión adulta, ¡qué cosa! Se sentía como si los hubiera visto crecer.
Al que no le guste que se vaya a otra escuela.
Al que no le guste que se vaya a otra escuela.
July 30, 2022
Flash forwards and secret origins are out in full force here as the students of Strange Academy revolt against their teachers in this final (for now) volume of the series.
The tension at the Academy has been reaching a boiling point for a while, and it's actually pretty shocking how far the students go here to prove their point. Skottie Young manages to have them make their points without feeling like snotty kids, and he manages to make the teachers' response feel natural without looking down at the kids either. It's just a breakdown in communication and neither side really wanting to listen to the other, while dark forces move around in the background. It's a well-executed balancing act.
I do think this arc may be the literary equivalent of blue balls, though. Everything builds and builds, right up until the last few pages of the last issue, and then we get a big ol' To Be Continued and that's it for another six months before the final arc even begins.
I will also say that I think the villain of the first few issues, Lamplighter, is a much better design than I'd ever have expected to see for a book like this, and he'd be a good foil for the main Doctor Strange/Strange book, so hopefully we'll see him again soon.
Humberto Ramos remains on art, having now pencilled all 18 issues of the series without a break (though there were some delays on the last few), which is an impressive and commendable feat that happens very rarely at the Big Two these days.
Strange Academy's last outing for now has a lot to like, but it'll leave you clamouring for more, and not always in the best ways. Maybe hold back on reading this until the final arc has started - or re-read it all when that comes out, that works too.
The tension at the Academy has been reaching a boiling point for a while, and it's actually pretty shocking how far the students go here to prove their point. Skottie Young manages to have them make their points without feeling like snotty kids, and he manages to make the teachers' response feel natural without looking down at the kids either. It's just a breakdown in communication and neither side really wanting to listen to the other, while dark forces move around in the background. It's a well-executed balancing act.
I do think this arc may be the literary equivalent of blue balls, though. Everything builds and builds, right up until the last few pages of the last issue, and then we get a big ol' To Be Continued and that's it for another six months before the final arc even begins.
I will also say that I think the villain of the first few issues, Lamplighter, is a much better design than I'd ever have expected to see for a book like this, and he'd be a good foil for the main Doctor Strange/Strange book, so hopefully we'll see him again soon.
Humberto Ramos remains on art, having now pencilled all 18 issues of the series without a break (though there were some delays on the last few), which is an impressive and commendable feat that happens very rarely at the Big Two these days.
Strange Academy's last outing for now has a lot to like, but it'll leave you clamouring for more, and not always in the best ways. Maybe hold back on reading this until the final arc has started - or re-read it all when that comes out, that works too.
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April 6, 2023Remember when Buffy did magic as drugs? This is much the same, except specifically with wishes. Also a lot less embarrassing, in part because despite being firmly embedded in the Marvel Universe, it retains the quality of fable which Young's creator-owned work often manifests, something which of course here owes at least as much Ramos and Delgado's weird, expressive visuals. One plot strand I especially enjoyed, even if ultimately they bottle it, is the awareness that a prophesied dark future might just as easily begin with acts of kindness in the present day as any outright cruelty or tragedy.
December 18, 2022
Avaliei com cinco estrelas os dois primeiros volumes dessa maravilhosa nova série da Marvel que é Academia do Estranho, uma espécie de Hogwarts do mundo dos super-heróis da Casa das Ideias. Mas diferente dos outros dois volumes, acabei avaliando este com apenas quatro estrelas, devido à atmosfera anticlimática deste que é o último volume da série (com esse nome, depois continua como Strange Academy Finals). Além disso, as tramas com profecias se avolumam neste encadernado. Não que esse dispositivo narrativo não seja legal, mas ele domina todo este volume. Devo dizer que foi uma das poucas séries em que a arte de Humberto Ramos me agradou, combinou com os personagens e com a proposta da história em quadrinhos. Foi uma ótima série enquanto durou e gostaria que durasse mais e que este encadernado não tivesse acabado do jeito que acabou, queria mais mais e mais e isso me deixou bastante chateado. Felizmente teremos outra série da Academia do Estranho vindo aí, mas acredito que irá durar menos que essa, infelizmente...
May 25, 2023
A little light on a ending but everything else worked really well.
The kids are heading late into their first year at the academy and things are heating up. The big date to the dance, people are falling in love, and the magic grows in wonderful and horrifying ways. I really enjoyed the first few issues, just moves at such a nice pace and so many great interactions between the cast.
The last two issues feel a little rushed. I know we're getting more but it feels like a ending that's not a ending but Marvel wanted to rebrand to issue 1? Didn't love that idea.
Overall though really just an enjoyable freaking series. A 4 out of 5.
The kids are heading late into their first year at the academy and things are heating up. The big date to the dance, people are falling in love, and the magic grows in wonderful and horrifying ways. I really enjoyed the first few issues, just moves at such a nice pace and so many great interactions between the cast.
The last two issues feel a little rushed. I know we're getting more but it feels like a ending that's not a ending but Marvel wanted to rebrand to issue 1? Didn't love that idea.
Overall though really just an enjoyable freaking series. A 4 out of 5.
September 6, 2022
It's been building for awhile now...emotions...tensions..
The prophecy 'powderkeg' is about to go boom. How many ways can you look at the future and not let it influence the present? Someone doesn't have their magic jacket and is forced to deal with things in a school with WAY too much magic for the magicless. How do you cope in an academy where a wrong turn could feed you to a refrigerator? Dark magic can be a blessing or a curse. How do you know where you stand when everything you learn is a shade of grey?
Yes, they get to play off the magic academy / boarding school tropes along the way, but it's a fresher take on things IMO. It's less 'New Mutants' or 'Hellions' and more Harry Potter. I like seeing the fact that they're being TRAINED. It's not all action.
Only part I might give a thumbs down to is pausing the series at the apex. This clearly isn't the end of the series and (technically) shouldn't be the end of this volume/trade.
Bonus: Is a prison of the mind really being 'set free'?
Bonus Bonus: the story of Calvin needs to be finished. We're still dealing with reprecussions from the magic jacket loss.
The prophecy 'powderkeg' is about to go boom. How many ways can you look at the future and not let it influence the present? Someone doesn't have their magic jacket and is forced to deal with things in a school with WAY too much magic for the magicless. How do you cope in an academy where a wrong turn could feed you to a refrigerator? Dark magic can be a blessing or a curse. How do you know where you stand when everything you learn is a shade of grey?
Yes, they get to play off the magic academy / boarding school tropes along the way, but it's a fresher take on things IMO. It's less 'New Mutants' or 'Hellions' and more Harry Potter. I like seeing the fact that they're being TRAINED. It's not all action.
Only part I might give a thumbs down to is pausing the series at the apex. This clearly isn't the end of the series and (technically) shouldn't be the end of this volume/trade.
Bonus: Is a prison of the mind really being 'set free'?
Bonus Bonus: the story of Calvin needs to be finished. We're still dealing with reprecussions from the magic jacket loss.
August 8, 2022
I really enjoy this series. Sure it hits a lot of the classic beats for a boarding school/magical type tale. And some of the same as Avengers Academy (which I also enjoyed). School dance, chosen one, even a degradation arc which is always a fun twist. I am looking forward to the next arc/run of this series (announced at SDCC!!) and where all the dark magical goodness is headed next! In some cases comics with a full team especially when they are all brand new to the world don't all get the same amount of screen time/attention like the deserve and while that can sometimes be true (while ik that Emily is the MC) overall development has gotten better for all the main crew the comic focuses on. Plus a couple of new additions was fun to see and since more characters are joining MC level in FINALS new dynamics will be interesting to watch unfold.
Also... Zoe and Dessy? Surprisingly adorable together and I need more.
Also... Zoe and Dessy? Surprisingly adorable together and I need more.
July 10, 2022
I’ve really enjoyed these 3 volumes. Turns out this won’t be the end though. Just taking a bit of a break. Sounds like they’ll be back sometime in August back at issue #1. Now that Doctor Strange is dead and the magical world has been turned upside down the students are forced to use less magic. But one for them is dealing back alley wishes, one is tainted by dark magic, and one is consumed by thoughts of a horrible prophecy. The character connections are still fantastic as the first 18 issues wrap up very nicely while leaving many new questions and delivering some more solid magical action.
September 15, 2022
These Volumes keep getting better and better!
A few different characters dominate the story in this Volume, so I'll give a brief overview of each one.
Calvin - Having lost his magic coat to the whole ordeal with Mister Misery, he now finds himself without powers. After hearing about a guy that grants wishes called Gaslamp, Calvin not only gets him to give him his powers back, but by promising to deal wishes out to the other students, his power will keep increasing. Once Dr Voodoo finds out, Calvin is expelled from school.
Zoe - Zoe reveals her origins as a descendant of Marie Laveau, and tries to help Calvin by telling him how bad Gaslamp can be, and the costs of magic.
Doyle - The Dormammu in him finally rears its head after a botched look at the future, where Emily is the head of the school and is opposed against Doyle, who leads an evil army. This causes him to quit school, then come back, hoping to avoid the prophesy... but might have started it anyways.
Emily - After freeing The Imperator's mind, and keeping his body resting in the school's Dungeon, Emily starts to take front stage. Turns out the ring that Doyle gave her is making her fall further into dark magic She stands up Doyle at the school dance to help Calvin. She also leads the walkout of the students who want all the school's secrets revealed, ending the Volume with trying to lead them into the Dark Dimension.
It will be interesting to see where the kids go next and how the adults and teachers of the Academy handle it.
Recommend.
A few different characters dominate the story in this Volume, so I'll give a brief overview of each one.
Calvin - Having lost his magic coat to the whole ordeal with Mister Misery, he now finds himself without powers. After hearing about a guy that grants wishes called Gaslamp, Calvin not only gets him to give him his powers back, but by promising to deal wishes out to the other students, his power will keep increasing. Once Dr Voodoo finds out, Calvin is expelled from school.
Zoe - Zoe reveals her origins as a descendant of Marie Laveau, and tries to help Calvin by telling him how bad Gaslamp can be, and the costs of magic.
Doyle - The Dormammu in him finally rears its head after a botched look at the future, where Emily is the head of the school and is opposed against Doyle, who leads an evil army. This causes him to quit school, then come back, hoping to avoid the prophesy... but might have started it anyways.
Emily - After freeing The Imperator's mind, and keeping his body resting in the school's Dungeon, Emily starts to take front stage. Turns out the ring that Doyle gave her is making her fall further into dark magic She stands up Doyle at the school dance to help Calvin. She also leads the walkout of the students who want all the school's secrets revealed, ending the Volume with trying to lead them into the Dark Dimension.
It will be interesting to see where the kids go next and how the adults and teachers of the Academy handle it.
Recommend.
December 11, 2022
Como não dar 5 estrelas?!
Os personagens vc já ama, os desenhos do Humberto presente em todas as edições oque hoje é raridade manter o desenhista oque eu gosto bastante pois isso da uma forma e uma cara para a série, nesse volume temos bailes, expulsão e ascensão de um antagonista que prece conhece o Vodu mais do que imaginamos ansioso pela continuação que parece que chama “finals”
Os personagens vc já ama, os desenhos do Humberto presente em todas as edições oque hoje é raridade manter o desenhista oque eu gosto bastante pois isso da uma forma e uma cara para a série, nesse volume temos bailes, expulsão e ascensão de um antagonista que prece conhece o Vodu mais do que imaginamos ansioso pela continuação que parece que chama “finals”
April 29, 2024
Me tiene harto Bright. Qué bueno que dormamuneo.
July 15, 2022
Yes, I know I avoid spoilers like a disease, but here I'm doing it.
The cliffhanger ending + series cancellation just was wrong. This title has a strong creative team, and if they struggled with anything it was the large cast size. But, cast size is in part dictated by the title's premise. This is a school after all and there should be students!
Yeah, not just stories centered on 1-3 students but like an entire class. Another small fault is the teachers could have been fleshed out more, and readers are expected to be fluent in the Marvel Universe.
Hopefully, the series does return (as it promised on the last page).
The cliffhanger ending + series cancellation just was wrong. This title has a strong creative team, and if they struggled with anything it was the large cast size. But, cast size is in part dictated by the title's premise. This is a school after all and there should be students!
Yeah, not just stories centered on 1-3 students but like an entire class. Another small fault is the teachers could have been fleshed out more, and readers are expected to be fluent in the Marvel Universe.
Hopefully, the series does return (as it promised on the last page).
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 4, 2022
First off - I still LOVE Humberto Ramos' art on this book. That is FIVE stars.
Second - I would have stopped reading this series after volume 1 if it hadn't been for the art. I was holding out hope it might get better but this issue especially was spinning wheels. No real character development and no interesting stories.
It is called WISH craft because the lamest character Calvin finds an evil man to get wishes from and then he starts dealing wishes to other students. Do you get it? The wishes are like drugs and Calvin has become a pusher. Wow, Skottie that is such a subtle metaphor I WISH you were a better writer. TBH I don't even mind the premise which has been done 1000000 times before, but do it in a new way. Not the typical, loser friend gets tempted by evil - friends warn him not to do it - he does it - he becomes bad an friends don't seem to notice. I assume Calvin will come back in volume 4 or 5 for vengeance of being kicked out of the school.
Another weird tangent is when Emily (the main character) gets the students to go on strike and gosh it is hard to take this book seriously. Also - the headmaster is warned "stop using so much magic because it is hurting the magic world when you use it so often" which Dr. Strange knew about from HIS book so making a magic school where they practice magic all day in class was kinda stupid when you think about it. I have to admit I forget WHY they even made this school in the first place. All it seems to do is create problems.
Yep - overall this is one of those pitches that sounds great "a school of magic!!!" and then the author really didn't know how to make interesting stories or develop the characters. The first two volumes at least I felt the characters had grown a bit by the end of the volume but in this one I didn't see that.
Overall - a once promising series is getting worse and worse.
Second - I would have stopped reading this series after volume 1 if it hadn't been for the art. I was holding out hope it might get better but this issue especially was spinning wheels. No real character development and no interesting stories.
It is called WISH craft because the lamest character Calvin finds an evil man to get wishes from and then he starts dealing wishes to other students. Do you get it? The wishes are like drugs and Calvin has become a pusher. Wow, Skottie that is such a subtle metaphor I WISH you were a better writer. TBH I don't even mind the premise which has been done 1000000 times before, but do it in a new way. Not the typical, loser friend gets tempted by evil - friends warn him not to do it - he does it - he becomes bad an friends don't seem to notice. I assume Calvin will come back in volume 4 or 5 for vengeance of being kicked out of the school.
Another weird tangent is when Emily (the main character) gets the students to go on strike and gosh it is hard to take this book seriously. Also - the headmaster is warned "stop using so much magic because it is hurting the magic world when you use it so often" which Dr. Strange knew about from HIS book so making a magic school where they practice magic all day in class was kinda stupid when you think about it. I have to admit I forget WHY they even made this school in the first place. All it seems to do is create problems.
Yep - overall this is one of those pitches that sounds great "a school of magic!!!" and then the author really didn't know how to make interesting stories or develop the characters. The first two volumes at least I felt the characters had grown a bit by the end of the volume but in this one I didn't see that.
Overall - a once promising series is getting worse and worse.
June 16, 2024
Guess I'm catching up on comics this summer. I haven't read the last volume in 2 years, just been putting it off. Though I absolutely loved the series. This volume was fine I guess.
So much drama and stuff happening. It's hard to keep up with the worldbuilding and everything especially with something so vast like Strange Academy. Doyle angst, Calvin angst (with a drug dealing metaphor), Emily angst. Really just angst all around EVERYONE is so angsty. Looks like it's setting up for the big finale. I still don't really like Emily that much, she just feels like "main character". Though I do like that she shows flaws in this, she's not a perfect character. I mean she shows up Doyle! Poor guy. I feel like she does have main character syndrome, and Doyle's calling her out on it.
Anyways everything moved so fast idk. It was hard to really get invested so much "need to change my destiny" stuff.
But the arts still cool I guess I just wasn't into all the drama. I was into the Calvin plot but that gets shoved to the side towards the end.
Anyways good volume I guess but I just thought there was way too much going on that it gets muddled.
Also Dessy x Zoe is canon good for them.
So much drama and stuff happening. It's hard to keep up with the worldbuilding and everything especially with something so vast like Strange Academy. Doyle angst, Calvin angst (with a drug dealing metaphor), Emily angst. Really just angst all around EVERYONE is so angsty. Looks like it's setting up for the big finale. I still don't really like Emily that much, she just feels like "main character". Though I do like that she shows flaws in this, she's not a perfect character. I mean she shows up Doyle! Poor guy. I feel like she does have main character syndrome, and Doyle's calling her out on it.
Anyways everything moved so fast idk. It was hard to really get invested so much "need to change my destiny" stuff.
But the arts still cool I guess I just wasn't into all the drama. I was into the Calvin plot but that gets shoved to the side towards the end.
Anyways good volume I guess but I just thought there was way too much going on that it gets muddled.
Also Dessy x Zoe is canon good for them.
October 31, 2022
Wishcraft certainly benefits from being the third book in the Strange Academy series. It doesn't have to establish characters or settings and can instead manipulate past events to create new issues for our many teenage protagonists. Really good stuff!
The fallout from Calvin losing his magic continues () while Emily and Doyle's relationship takes a turn (). There's plenty of teen angst, but most of it is directed at the admittedly incompetent authority figures running Strange Academy. Seems like things will really come to a head in the next volume!
The fallout from Calvin losing his magic continues () while Emily and Doyle's relationship takes a turn (). There's plenty of teen angst, but most of it is directed at the admittedly incompetent authority figures running Strange Academy. Seems like things will really come to a head in the next volume!
December 31, 2023
As ever a Marvel book feels cancelled before it can flex its full story potential, though this does get a follow up version. Calvin descends into the making of bad errors which was always going to be inherent with the magic users here who depended on special items, but the big bad turns out to be Emily - and it doesn't completely sell her heal turn (there is a bit of being controlled going on). Ramos art maintains a consistency and characterisation that is lots of fun and this is one of Marvel's most fun and successful bit of adding to its world for a while.
September 29, 2023
I think series like this are at the best when they take what would be a normal circumstance like a class presentation and show how magic would affect it in this version we literally see them summon magical beings to help them or teleport them to what they are talking about. The visuals again are great with a great use of colors and imagery. I also like they use these presentation as a way to help explain backstories.
November 30, 2023
Prophecies are teased at and one magic-less student makes a very bad choice.
3.5 stars: I'd like a bit more depth and less breadth in these stories. I HATE when they have 'teenagers who think they know more than the adults and so they do really stupid things' stories and this volume had two. It broke the suspension of disbelief that students this powerful would be so unsupervised. I still like the characters so I'll be checking in on them with the new series.
3.5 stars: I'd like a bit more depth and less breadth in these stories. I HATE when they have 'teenagers who think they know more than the adults and so they do really stupid things' stories and this volume had two. It broke the suspension of disbelief that students this powerful would be so unsupervised. I still like the characters so I'll be checking in on them with the new series.
August 1, 2025
This book is my
personal Holy Grail.
Dr. Strange
New Orleans
S. Young
and one of the best
artists ever.
Humberto Ramos.
Dr. Strange
realises that with the re emergence
of Magic in our Plane
that there is a wave of
young magic users
who have the gift but
no training.
He gathers the pre eminent
sorcerers, wizards & witches
( & a half demon maybe)
to teach these young future
hero's.
The adventures that follow
are nothing short
of
Astounding.
personal Holy Grail.
Dr. Strange
New Orleans
S. Young
and one of the best
artists ever.
Humberto Ramos.
Dr. Strange
realises that with the re emergence
of Magic in our Plane
that there is a wave of
young magic users
who have the gift but
no training.
He gathers the pre eminent
sorcerers, wizards & witches
( & a half demon maybe)
to teach these young future
hero's.
The adventures that follow
are nothing short
of
Astounding.
December 7, 2025
forse 3.5 ⭐️
volume che forse mi è piaciuto un po’ meno rispetto ai precedenti, probabilmente anche a causa dell’assenza di strange la cui personalità è insostituibile.
Anche i personaggi su cui si concentra il volume sono un po’ insopportabili a partire da Calvin e finire per Emily, l’unico che ha molto spazio e continua a piacermi sempre è Doyle.
Comunque il finale apre a nuove avventure, curioso di sapere come porteranno a conclusione questa avventura.
volume che forse mi è piaciuto un po’ meno rispetto ai precedenti, probabilmente anche a causa dell’assenza di strange la cui personalità è insostituibile.
Anche i personaggi su cui si concentra il volume sono un po’ insopportabili a partire da Calvin e finire per Emily, l’unico che ha molto spazio e continua a piacermi sempre è Doyle.
Comunque il finale apre a nuove avventure, curioso di sapere come porteranno a conclusione questa avventura.
July 10, 2023
Found this in the library and I am a sucker for school of magic type stories. Also, while I like the Marvel universe, it gets hard finding into it when some characters and stories have been around for so long, but with young adults you're most likely to come in at the beginning of their personal stories.
I would read more of this for sure, especially if my library has more.
I would read more of this for sure, especially if my library has more.
August 6, 2023
3.75
This continues to be a fun series, albeit not the most original out there, specially when it comes to the turn to the dark side of certain characters, and the teenage angst.
Anyway, the art is as gorgeous and compelling as usual, and the experience is nice and smooth, and just what you'd expect.
This continues to be a fun series, albeit not the most original out there, specially when it comes to the turn to the dark side of certain characters, and the teenage angst.
Anyway, the art is as gorgeous and compelling as usual, and the experience is nice and smooth, and just what you'd expect.
December 6, 2022
This part of this run was everywhere and it wasn't easy to follow. A lot of side plots are going central but then they get zero closure and get moved on to the next one while the main story got sidelined. Hopefully everything can get on it's tracks soon.
October 30, 2023
A good continuation of the series, focused on the strong characters of the previous volumes, but simultaneously bringing two major plots to a head. Looks like a great foundation to head off into the final volume.
August 11, 2022
Still very good. It’s nice that the same team is still working together. Some of the storylines are jumping around a bit, weird that Dr. Strange’s “death” wasn’t really dealt with.
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