7/09/2017

The Comic Book Of Spellbinders

By Larry Harris


As a young comic fan of early two thousand and five, the spellbinder may not be news but for the recent generation, it could be. As a way of encouraging the reading habit Marvel Next published spellbinders that was enticing for all those who came across it. With the setting around magic not one but six publications came to be. The writer and graphic designer being Mike Carey and Mike Perkins respectively.

This narrative focused on a girl whose family moved from Chicago to Salem. She is the main character and given them Kim Vesco. Soon after her arrival she met a neighbor Chad Barrow. Being friendly enough he talked to her encouraging her that her new school John Hawthorne, a fictional one, would be okay if she would not be too boring or was into magic.

Her first encounter was with an embodiment in form of air. She was attacked while at the institution, a scary way to be welcomed. Luckily for her she was saved by the characters Mink and Liza Beth. Magic being the order of Salem it was not a surprise for her to encounter with a wall. Learning she could talk with ghosts she unwillingly called out a large number. They warned about the pillar and commanded her to take charge of all witches.

During a lab session, fire broke out. She quickly saved herself. Later Chad passed invited her to a party at school. Amidst their conversation he learned she lived with foster parents. The witches acquired this piece of information and concluded that she was one of them. They performed magic to protect her but they ignored her physical safety.

There had been a black out. A premonition maybe for the evil awaiting in the night. She was attacked by a were wolf. The witches came to help her out. Renata a shape shifter transformed into the confronting form. They seized each other but the thing fled in form of a bird when the rest of the crew proceeded towards them.

The witches told her about their backstory, the Thief, an occult being capable of stealing their power and that the pillar of smoke, their source of strength. They offered to take her to this handiwork. She declined but later agreed. Walking deep into the wood they set up traps against unwanted parties. Chad, followed them effortlessly and attacked the guardian.

He killed the guardian of the artifact and turned to the team. He was the new thief. He destroyed the pillar and overshadowed them. They found themselves at a world where their witchcraft was futile. As ordered, she expressed her regrets and found herself in a place with flying skeletons sand corpses. She learned that she was the keeper.

After escaping back to Salem, the others found Chad had stolen powers of enchantresses and was raising his girlfriend from the dead. Kim and the rest challenge him and overpowered him. When everything calmed down, she left the school in triumph.




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