Books of Magic

[gothwalk]

I don't know if it's covered elsewhere in the series, but in Vertigo's Books of Magic, which I'm re-reading at the moment, there's a two-year gap between the first collected book - Issues 1 to 4, where Tim is 12, and written by Neil Gaiman - and the second, which starts at Issue 5, and is written by John Ney Rieber. Was there something else in there? Or is it just filled in later? I don't remember from my first reading...

It fascinates me how much of the series is either deriving from things I've read too, or how much of it I subconsciously picked up the first time through. I see elements of it all through my concepts of wizard, mixed in and jumbled.

Comments

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I've only read the Gaiman stuff - how is the rest?

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

It's ok. It's not Gaiman, of course, but it's not bad. Sticks within the same general themes, introduces some new characters, and generally does pretty well. There are times you want to kick Tim, and times you think he's doing pretty well. Worth reading, but not on my must-re-read-every-year pile.

[springinautumn.livejournal.com]

Great! Haven't seen that Icon in a long time. The fire one. :-)

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

From what I recall, the significant parts of those two years are actually covered in "crossovers" to other Vertigo lines, though off the top I can't remember which issues of which comics. But I have a friend that's a much more voracious comic fan than I, and I'll ask him and get back to you. ;)

[m-nivalis.livejournal.com]

Let's see now:

Gaiman's book (4 issues)

Books of Magic trade paperbacks:
1) Bindings (#1-4)
2) Summonings (#5-?)
3) Reckonings
4) Transformations
5) Girl in the box
6) The burning girl
7) Death after death (#?-50)
Issue 51-75 are not collected in TPBs.

The names of magic (Tim age 18)
1) The names of magic (#1-5)
The remaining issues (20-ish in total) were not collected.

Books of magick: Life during wartime (ongoing series, AU)
1) (issue #1-6?)


Is it BoM: Bindings that you're missing?