When I bought the latest two comics for my son, I also picked up two comics for me. This is the first of those.
Title: Magic: The Gathering: TherosIssue: 1
Date: October 2013
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Writer: Jason Ciaramella
Artist: Martin Coccolo
Colorist: Joana Lafuente
Letterer: Robbie Robbins
Editor: Carlos Guzman
Cover: Eric Deschamps
Once again, only bought this for the promo card, (which was an absolutely awesome version of High Tide, using the regular cover art from the comic).
So, Dirk Fayden (thief and planeswalker extraordinaire) has returned to Ravnica for a comic book based on the Magic: the Gathering set
His new mission: To steal a gem that could cause a new Guild War to break out.
Really? Does anything ever happen on Ravnica besides Guild War near-misses?
Anyway, Dirk's brilliant plan is to sneak past the angels guarding Sunhome, the Boros Legion headquarters. When that doesn't work, he tries brawling with the angels. With predictable results.
He does manage to grab a bit of a consolation prize while beating a hasty retreat, and it turns out to be a magical artifact in its own right. This is what leads him to Theros, where he gets into a street brawl, meets a hero-worshiping kid (or perhaps just a sneaky one), and attempts to hire a ship.
For all that goes on here, it really didn't feel like all that much happened. Theros is presented beautifully in terms of the visuals, but we get almost no sense of its culture. It's a fantasy world where an adventurer walking down the street gets into a brawl. Pretty generic.
In generally, this issue was visually impressive, but didn't deliver much in terms of story.
That promotional version High Tide was quite lovely, though.
Rating: 4.5/10
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