Day of the Magicians

Le Jour des magiciens #1-5

by Michelangelo La Neve, Marco Nizzoli (Illustrations)

A fantastical saga of sorcery, love, and adventure, featuring a young magician's quest to becoming a man.

Drazen has completed his magician’s training and is now ready to carry out the mission conferred upon him by his to find and take down the renegade sorcerer Lancaster, his own father. Torn between his duty, the desire to find the love of his parents, and the pursuit of his own life-long love, the young magician will be left with the most difficult of choices.

Genres: Comics

268 pages, Paperback

First published March 9, 2011

Reviews

[Amanda Majasaari · Rating 5 out of 5]

I totally loved this book. It contains all ordinary five comic albums of Day of the Magicians tale. This climbs up to the TOP 10 of the best mature rated fantasy comics I have read.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pop hermetics and tarotic archetypes? Count me in. Kind of the fantastical answer to the mystic sci-fi of the Incal books, most obviously evinced by Jodorowsky's terse (and pointless?) introduction. Has some interesting things to say about the dangers of messiahood and nicely illustrates the correspondence of magic to electricity as found in the Kybalion of the Three Initiates.

[Travis Johnson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought the story was okay. The art was good. Very "European." But the ending left a lot to be desired. The author didn't seem willing, for whatever reason, to change the world.

[Lucas Bernardin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gros coup de cœur.

[Jefferson · Rating 1 out of 5]

The artwork is slick enough that it caught my attention, but this book ended up being so dull that I gave up reading it about halfway through. The story drags on and on, and too often falls back on text page info-dumps for its (largely uninteresting) world building instead of letting those details come out between the characters. The aforementioned artwork is superficially pretty but bland and soulless, making this story seem like a film with great costumes, sets and cinematography, populated by beautiful fashion models who can't act.

[Drew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid art and story, and I enjoyed reading it, but there was something missing that would've elevated it to exceptional.