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Rob reviews The Magic Order 2 #6... Mark Millar has crafted The Magic Order 2 like a brutal magic show. Over the series, we've seen plenty of illusions, mysteries, and tricks of the mind as Millar and Stuart Immonen have sent us on a mystical tour of emotion. But like every good show, the curtains will eventually fall. And for The Magic Order 2, Millar has saved the best till last!  The action kicks off with Cordelia and her Magic Order chums deep in their battle with Viktor Korne and his followers. Krone has managed to summon the mythical demon; Othoul'Endu and is poised to finally take out the Order and then rule the wider world. But in true Millar fashion, it's not that simple.  We then take a trip to the past as we see Soran Korne attempt the same plan 1000-years ago. This time around. However, on the cusp of defeat, the Lovecraftian terror retreats into its dimension, thus the proto-Order defeat Soran and as they say "the rest is history". Sadly...

Rob reviews The Magic Order 2 #5... We are on to the penultimate issue of this series as a comic heavyweight, Mark Millar ramps up The Magic Order 2 to blockbuster levels. It's a tempo that we've come to expect from Millar , and it's certainly no different here.  Millar starts this issue off with more backstory as we see inside the illustrious Magic Order. This history lesson is soon interrupted by the suicide of Francis King. Since King's introduction, we've seen the troubled magician wrestle with his demons. Whether it was an actual demon or just Francis' imagination is still to be seen. But whatever it sadly drove King to take his own life by playing into his guilt of killing Harun. It's quite an emotional scene, and part of me had hoped that someone would come to his rescue. Alas, it's not the case - and if anything this death foreshadows what else is to come in this issue.  I won't ruin what happens as the event is cert...

Rob reviews The Magic Order 2 #1... Mark Millar is no stranger to the comic world. From writing epics such as Marvel 's Civil War , Jupiter's Legac y, and even a stint as a regular writer for 2000 AD . To most Millar is a legend and as such, there's always an air of anticipation around the writers next work.  This opening issue serves as both a catch up to Cordelia and her family, as well as introducing the next big threat. For the most part, the issue takes a fairly dark tone, but it does have some lighter tones too. If anything this opening is certainly an eye-opener to this world and Mark Millar 's imagination.  The issue opens with an introduction to the Korne family - a group of magic-users based in Bucharest. They're certainly the bad guys of the issue as we get to see just how they use their "gift", and what exactly their future plans are. We then switch perspectives as we catch up to Eddie and Regan, who have arrived at the scene of a...