NEW MUTANTS REUNITE! To save their friend, Magik and Mirage have no choice but to seek help from the order his ancestors founded. But will Illyana's new power make her a perfect recruit or a natural hellraiser? And how will former leader Mirage respond when Magik starts to take charge?
It's been a long and winding saga for Illyana over the course of the past half year. It's been fun seeing Allen explorer this particular character in this much detail. As tight, a close-up as it is, the character still remains such a mystery on so many different levels. That much is really impressive given the nature of everything. Allen maintain an impressive balance between a revealing a lot of deep emotional reality to the page and keeping enough shadow around the edges of Illyanas mind to keep her reasonably mysterious. Read Full Review
Ashley Allen does a fantastic job with Illyana, and continues an exciting storyline with her, Dani Moonstar, and Cal Isaacs in Magik #7. Read Full Review
There's a lot of stuff going on in this issue, but I'm not enamored with the Eternal Dawn and am just waiting for the bottom to fall out with it. I do like seeing Illyana watching how The Embodiment runs the place and keeps her people in line, as it brings up her thinking of how she and Maddie failed at running Limbo with their hands-off approach and that maybe a change is in order. It's a contrast to be sure, since Illyana doesn't trust The Embodiment, but she's at least paying attention. Everything with Cal is just a bad situation made worse by all of these characters acting like children, but such is the game at times. But it's what makes it less interesting since you do expect better from, well, all of them. But how else are you going to keep people paying attention if you don't shake a little mutant action at them from time to time? Read Full Review
Overall, I enjoyedMagik#7. My critiques of its overly expository content don't make me consider this issue "bad," just closer to an 8 in my book than a 9, which earlier issues of the series easily obtained. Ashley Allen has continued to masterfully capture Illyana's tone through her growth, acceptance of the Darkchild, and relationship to heroism. Germn Peralta's art continues to impress, and made the issue engaging even when it involved a bit too much talking and explaining. This issue does its job well, preparing readers for the next majorMagik arc... and I am excited to see where the adventure takes us. Read Full Review
Magik #7 may be light on plot, but it effectively introduces the final key players for the explosive concluding three issues. It sets the stage for the girls' pivotal Vegas mission, which will either mend or break Dani and Magik's friendship, and firmly establishes the long-looming threat of Liminal. While primarily an expository issue, it successfully serves its purpose by setting up a compelling finale. Read Full Review
I love the idea of a Magik on-going series. She's one of the deeper X-characters and I'd really love for more upper-tier creators to be assigned to the book. The writing is ok, the art is meh. I am mostly enjoying the story, but it's nothing ground-breaking. Overall I'm enjoying this more for who it's about than what it's about, but enjoying it nonetheless.
All the magic stuff is a bit offbeat for X-Men material, but I would read anything with Dani, point blank period. Wish she weren't second fiddle but I'll take what I can get. A well done issue making us want more.
I was on board with 6 to 8 issues of this, now it looks like it's cntinuing. If that's the case, i'm jumping off next issue. This story is not a 12-issue story. It feels incredibly drawn out already. I like Dani and Magik together, but this was simply a tour of the building. How is that interesting? Then they get a mission to find a macguffin. I'm pretty much done with already.
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