Magik (comics)
Magik (Storm and Illyana Limited Series) | |
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ISBN 0-7851-3093-4 |
Magik was a four-issue
Publication
Because of the popularity of the
Continuity
The main plot takes place in mere seconds of
Plot
Magik tells the story of
Cat takes Illyana to a replica of the
Illyana spends three years learning magic from Belasco, while secretly reading every book in his library, plotting his downfall. Alone in her room, she attempts to imitate the creation powers Storm showed her by forming an acorn from a part of herself, only to find the acorn is black and rotten. Hearing Belasco's voice outside her room, she panics, and her mutant power to create teleportational light discs manifests itself. Illyana uses a disc to enter Belasco's library, hoping to steal his grimoire, but Storm intervenes, accidentally sending her into another disc. She finds herself in the past, witnessing Storm "killing" Belasco, who claims to be immune to death while in Limbo; it is this act which binds Storm to Belasco. She teleports back to the present to find Storm battling Belasco. Cat fatally wounds Storm, then attacks Illyana. She kills Cat in self-defense.[4] Belasco orders her to sacrifice Storm's soul to the Elder Gods. Instead, she kills Storm to save her soul and teleports to Storm's garden, where she buries her. Enraged by her defiance, Belasco captures Illyana, extracts another bloodstone from her essence, and casts her out into a wintery wilderness as punishment.[5]
Illyana finds Storm's massive oak and spends years trying to use it to help create a living acorn from her essence, only to produce still more rotten acorns. When the oak finally crumbles to dust from her efforts, Illyana realizes that she was only trying to create life as a means to an end: destroying Belasco. She tries instead to manifest her desire directly, using the last of her power to create a "
Collection
- After being out-of-print for a few decades, the series was collected as a hardcover graphic novel titled X-Men - Magik: Storm & Illyana and released in Dec. 2008.
Title | Material collected | Publication Date | ISBN |
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X-Men - Magik: Storm & Illyana (144 pages) | Magik #1-4 | April 2008 | 9780785184553 |
See also
- The New Mutants
References
- ^ McMillan, Graeme (May 11, 2017). "The 'New Mutants' Backstory That's Crazy, Even by Comic Book Standards". Variety. Archived from the original on November 10, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
- Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series), no. 1 (Dec. 1983). Marvel Comics.
- Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series), no. 2 (Jan. 1984). Marvel Comics.
- Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series), no. 3 (Feb. 1984). Marvel Comics.
- ^ Magik (Illyana and Storm Limited Series), no. 4 (March 1984). Marvel Comics.