The Books of Magic

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The first book is based on the original miniseries. The subsequent books are based on story arcs in the second series; except The Children's Crusade, which is based on the Vertigo crossover event of the same name. The Mole: In Life During Wartime, John Constantine suspects there is one. He should know, because the mole is Constantine himself, allying himself with the Faerie Queene against the humans. Except it then turns out he was playing the Fairie Queene all along and the entire thing was a Batman Gambit orchestrated by him and Tim Hunter. Winter's Edge #2". DC/Vertigo. January 1999. Archived from the original on January 27, 2008 . Retrieved November 27, 2008. a b c d e "Interview with John Ney Rieber". Serie Journalen. December 1, 1995. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008 . Retrieved April 28, 2008. Pals with Jesus: Death seems rather fond of Tim. Plus there is his love/hate relationship with Queen Titania.

Everyone and everything he meets wants to use Tim for their own purposes or kill him (except, obviously, Death herself), including demons, fairies, and angels. Tim's friends and family are targeted by supernatural forces beyond imagining in attempts to get Tim to agree to a Magically-Binding Contract to own his soul and power. And everything gets really, really weird. The Books of Magic was a four-issue limited series by Neil Gaiman which explored the DC universe through the eyes of a young boy named Timothy Hunter. Characters from The Sandman, including The Endless, are featured prominently in the second half of the story. Sir Timothy and Barbatos return to Tim's time from 2012 because Tim is the last boy in the multiverse who could possibly grow up to be Sir Timothy, and they intend to ensure that he does. Their plans are thwarted without Tim even being aware of them, as he has a guardian angel called Araquel who is chained between Heaven and Hell for having had a daughter called Nikki with Khara. Khara defeats Sir Timothy on Tim's behalf. The intervention doesn't mean that Tim is safe, however, as he has come to the attention of the last member of the Cult of the Cold Flame, a magician called Martyn. [16] Tim and his burnt father threatened by Martyn and Leah, from the cover to issue #7.

An exclusive Books of Magic story, titled "The Lot" and written by Ney Rieber, appeared in Vertigo Rave #1, published in the fall of 1994. Obviously Evil: Mister E is set up for this in his first appearance in the four-parter, what with his suggestion they murder Tim out of pure pragmatism, and his misogynistic comments further cement this (he was literally raised to believe that women are the source of all evil). The superficial similarities are striking - but no more so than any number of other stories in the genre. As Gaiman has repeatedly said, he and Rowling were merely drinking from the same well. In fact, there was even a story in 2000AD (called the Journals of Luke Kirby) which came out a few years before The Books of Magic, which was extremely similar to both the BoM and Harry Potter. This is a genre - and Gaiman and Rowling are both playing with the conventions of the genre, to different ends. [12] Beyond the story, the artwork is beautiful in each volume, but different from artist to artist. Not in a jarring way, just noticeably different. Yarrow: Can this truly be your bedchamber? Never have I seen so small a space so remarkably disarrayed!

Gross, Peter( w)."A Day, a Night and a Dream, Part One" The Books of Magic(November 1999).DC Comics. Each issue was painted by a different artist, John Bolton, Scott Hampton, Charles Vess and Paul Johnson. Magic Wand: Tim makes one out of a screwdriver. May or may not be an intentional Shout-Out to a certain Sonic Screwdriver.Gwendolyn decides to stay and look after Tim while his father makes a miraculous recovery at the hands of the strange Mister Vasuki, eventually returning home after sharing a taxi with a young mother and her son Cyril. Deity of Human Origin: Queen Titania was originally a human peasant girl during the Middle Ages. She is such a powerful sorceress that to all practical intents and purposes she is a Physical God and appears to be The Ageless. Titania easily outmatches most mythological gods in the modern age, as she does not depend on worship for power. The supernatural community in general simply regards her as the godlike Queen of Faerie. A kid very much like Harry Potter might have been starts a journey of discovery, with four wise(ass) men from the magical side of Detective Comics, ostensibly to see if he wants to keep upon the path of a magical destiny. Give him the principles and a feel for the cost, show him the dark side, let him hope for the light, and put him in constant peril while keeping an eye on him... or not. The faerie market in Gaiman's novel Stardust has many similarities to the one presented in the original miniseries. This may not be surprising as it's simply a case of Gaiman borrowing a portion of one work to use in the other.

Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Life During Wartime, Tim has imposed this on himself in his created world. It doesn't last. He visits all kinds of different realms, traveling in the past, present, and finally the future, all the while being chased by a group called Cult of the Cold Flame who are out to kill him...for reasons. With Rieber leaving, the series editor Stuart Moore championed Gross to take over scripting duties because "I knew he could do it. He's got a great sense of story and character". [11] Gross initially wrote a short memo detailing where he thought the series should go, hoping that it might influence the editors' choice of writer. Gross was then asked if he could expand his ideas into an actual story, and he plotted a six issue story that he thought might be used as a "filler" until a new writer could be found. [8] DC encouraged him to think bigger until, by the time he started writing his first issue, he had plotted out a 23-issue-long story for the book. This soon expanded into plots for Gross' entire 25-issue run, [9] despite Gross initially being nervous that his writing efforts would be unfavorably compared to those of Gaiman and Rieber by the series' fans. [8] Vertigo published a number of winter specials under the title Winter's Edge, featuring short stories based on their current properties and featuring stories to preview upcoming series and one-shots. The Books of Magic featured in all three issues of Winter's Edge, with issue #1 containing "Thanks for Nothing" by John Ney Rieber [44] and issues #2 and #3 featuring stories written Peter Gross. Issue #2 featured a story called "We Three Things", [45] and issue #3 featured the Dead Boy Detectives in a tale set during Tim's time at one of the Inns Between the Worlds. [46] A Day, a Night and a Dream [ edit ]In December 1997, a two-issue crossover with Hellblazer was published, with a script from the then current Hellblazer writer Paul Jenkins from a story written in collaboration with John Ney Rieber. The artwork was by artist Paul Lee. Wizards' War: The last issue of the original mini briefly depicts a Bad Future where Tim went evil and sparked off a war involving pretty much every magic-user in the setting. increíblemente esta Novela gráfica ya tiene 30 años. Perfectamente podría parecer escrita ayer mismo. Another version of Tim showed up in the main DCU during the New 52 in a Justice League Dark storyline.

As well as an abandoned The Books of Faerie ongoing series, Vertigo planned a prestige-format one shot called The Books of Magic: A Day, a Night and a Dream. The comic was to be written by Peter Gross and illustrated by Charles Vess, set during Tim's stay at one of the Inns Between the Worlds. The issue was intended to be an introduction to the ongoing series and the wider world of Vertigo, [47] but was eventually incorporated into the main comic's storyline instead. [37] [48] The Names of Magic [ edit ]Despite being relatively short, this series has probably the largest timespan among the Sandman stories, showing both the dawn of the Universe and its destruction. The two issues showed Tim Hunter coming into possession of a time capsule that had been made by John Constantine as a child. The capsule contained all of Constantine's childhood innocence, placed there in one of his first acts of magic to rid himself of the perceived weakness. Tim attempts to return the box to its original owner, but Constantine wants nothing to do with it, until it falls into the hands of a demon called Kobal ("Master of the Infernal Theatre"). [42] Though this could also be interpreted as "Sir Timothy" always being a homeless bum, and Barbatos' plots are intended to make the possible future they are in a definite future.