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Magic: The Gathering: The Complete Collection
Magic( The Gathering( The Complete Collection) Hardcover MattForbeck IDWPublishing
- GenresGraphic Novels
400 pages, Hardcover
First published August 12, 2014
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Matt Forbeck
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April 11, 2018
I may well have given the IDW Magic comics a bad rap when they first came out, but I can appreciate them a bit more now that I’m truly invested in the game’s lore. At the time, I was comparing them unfavorably to the Armada comics that were released in the 90s. Neither is better than the other; they’re just different.
Where they do share an unfortunate similarity is that both were canceled before completion. Like the Planeswalker War arc of the 90s, we get no resolution to Dack Fayden’s conflict with Ashiok. So those looking for a volume with a tidy conclusion had better look elsewhere. Although this is a “complete collection,” it ends mid-story because the series was canned.
Forbeck and Ciaramella trade off writing duties midway through the run. Of the two, I think Ciaramella handles the material better by eliminating the heavy handed stream-of-consciousness approach that forces the reader to split their time between reading the dialogue and Dack’s interior thoughts. The Ciaramella issues beginning with the Theros arc are the stronger of the two.
Cóccolo’s art is excellent throughout, and he manages to sneak in a number of Easter eggs that fans of the game will appreciate.
Where they do share an unfortunate similarity is that both were canceled before completion. Like the Planeswalker War arc of the 90s, we get no resolution to Dack Fayden’s conflict with Ashiok. So those looking for a volume with a tidy conclusion had better look elsewhere. Although this is a “complete collection,” it ends mid-story because the series was canned.
Forbeck and Ciaramella trade off writing duties midway through the run. Of the two, I think Ciaramella handles the material better by eliminating the heavy handed stream-of-consciousness approach that forces the reader to split their time between reading the dialogue and Dack’s interior thoughts. The Ciaramella issues beginning with the Theros arc are the stronger of the two.
Cóccolo’s art is excellent throughout, and he manages to sneak in a number of Easter eggs that fans of the game will appreciate.
October 23, 2014
This was a fun read and a much better way to tell the stories of the multiverse than the block novels were. The set novels were utterly amazing but the story telling has degraded in quality since then. This was a fun and quick read and I intend on picking up the next anthology.
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