Writer Ashley Allen
Artist German Peralta
Color Artist Arthur Hesli
Letterer VC’s Ariana Maher
Variant Cover Yasmine Putri, Doctor Doom Homage
A real shame this came out the same week as X-Men United, as it would have won any other week for me.
Lake Baikal, Russia. Then. Illyana and Piotr are fishing with their father. Pitor isn’t very good at it, and Illyana wants a turn. She says he’s being mean, and he starts crying. So, they have always been this way.
I like her father calling her, sunshine, a nice contrast to Piotr’s snowflake.
Lake Baikal, Russia. Now. Magik explains to Colossus why they can’t just teleport. Magik is tracking the magical signature of whoever is Lady Midday’s boss.
I could have gone an entire issue of just these two on the train together. I like how, even with her brother, Illyana is calculated enough to make sure she’s only being surface level. In a game of Eye Spy, she’s going to pick literally the first thing she sees. She’s always been this way.
Once again, if there’s any character that needed a refresh, it is Colossus. He’s still carrying his Krakoa baggage. Illyana tries to soothe him, one can’t keep living in the past. She mentions Belasco, and her lack of a childhood, which will pay off expertly later in the issue.
St. Petersburg, Russia. I like Piotr stopping for some halva. He hasn’t had any in a while. He’s still not one to talk, and she matches his energy. These siblings are fun to watch.
The two of them are attacked by mermaids. They take Magik into the water.
They keep gabbing at her, and I like the attention to detail that she can’t respond to them, as she’ll get a mouthful of water. But, how do the mermaids talk? Are they not getting mouthfuls of water? I get the water goes into their mouths, and out through the gills, but would they still be able to talk? They must, as they always do, but that’s a thought I hadn’t had until now.
Magik comes up for some air. She heads back down, and takes out a mermaid with the Wraithsword, one of her two options for a pickaxe in Fortnite.
She comes back up for some more air, and asks Colossus to give her a rope. He thinks it is to pull her up, but she has other plans.
I like how she knows enough magik spells, that she has access to non verbal ones, and takes out all of the mermaids.
Colossus is upset that he thought he lost her, but there wasn’t time to discuss the entire plan. Also, he’s a bit slow.
They come across a Bannik. He informs them that they are up against The Immortal. A character name the Legal department must have loved to clear. Marvel’s The Immortal. The Immortal is making deals with the magik folk, and once the siblings are taken care of, they won’t have to live in hiding anymore. Which is a bit odd in the Marvel Universe, where people of all types and sizes exist on the surface level, is a mermaid that much more to ask about?
They are directed to a nearby church. Colossus makes the poor decision to guard the front, like, okay pal. Magik goes inside, to look for a relic that will help them locate The Immortal. There’s a cloaked old man, who is quick to bind Magik, and Colossus finally comes in.
But he’s too late as Magik falls down into a portal. Which has to cause Colosuss, and me, a bit of anxiety as the last time he witness her going down into a portal, she came back aged by seven years.
I want the next issue, now! Please.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 