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\"\"<\/a>MAGIK vol 3 #8<\/strong>
\n“Frayed Not Broken”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Ashley Allen<\/strong>
\nArtist: Matt Horak<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Arthur Hesli<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Ariana Maher<\/strong>
\nEditor: Darren Shan<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Symbolic image of Magik in Liminal’s hand, which would been a better fit for the previous arc.<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-4.\u00a0<\/strong>Magik, Mirage and Liminal track down the Scarlet Eye.<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, recap: Last issue, Magik showed up at the headquarters of the Society of the Eternal Dawn looking for Cal Isaacs. Cal turned out to be completely possessed by Liminal, although currently with little or no power; Liminal claimed that he would be “limitless” once his new body adjusted to him. The Society’s leader, the Embodiment, sent Magik and Mirage to Las Vegas where (she claimed) a magical artefact that could be used to separate Cal and Liminal was being used by local drug dealers to enhance their drugs. Magik insisted on Liminal coming with them because she didn’t trust the Society to take care of him; Embodiment agreed to this after using magic to symbolically remove Liminal’s heart, apparently as some sort of tether.<\/p>\n

The High Roller.<\/strong> It’s a real Ferris wheel in Las Vegas<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Scarlet Eye.<\/strong> They’re new. Apparently they’re the magically-enhanced drug dealers that Embodiment told us about last issue.<\/p>\n

Zosimos’<\/strong>\u00a0Quill.<\/strong> The magical artefact that’s supposed to separate Cal and Liminal, according to Embodiment. According to Liminal – if you can trust him – it contains a gem that “modifies both the physical and metaphysical”. Liminal claims that the gem\u00a0could<\/em> separate him from Cal’s body, but that this wouldn’t achieve anything in terms of saving Cal, because Cal is dead. Magik insists that this isn’t true, but offers no reason.<\/p>\n

The Quill itself is new, but Zosimos is presumably Zosimos of Panoplis, a fourth century alchemist who wrote the oldest surviving books on the subject.<\/p>\n

Aendret worms.<\/strong> According to Magik, magical creatures that eat the mind. They seem to be new. “Aendret” is a Danish word meaning “altered” or “changed”.<\/p>\n

Liminal.<\/strong> As in the previous arc, Liminal presents himself as a kindred spirit of Magik who can potentially ally with her – though doesn’t seem to quite understand how others perceive him. He claims that the Society have imprisoned him because it’s “corrupt and fears what they cannot control”, and seems to think it’s obvious that there would be no good reason to control him. That’s despite him having killed people, imprisoned Magik and gloated about his upcoming limitless power in previous issues. In fact, Liminal is right about the Society being dodgy, but he’s hardly the best example to prove it.<\/p>\n

“Make another deal with you?”<\/strong> Magik made a deal with Liminal to get out of his pocket dimension in issue #3.<\/p>\n

PAGE 5.\u00a0<\/strong>Magik, Mirage and Liminal arrive outside the Scarlet Eye’s HQ.<\/em><\/p>\n

“That stupid fight in Ireland.”<\/strong> Issue #5, presumably referring to Mirage giving Magik a dressing down for her treatment of Cal at the end of the issue, when she took Cal away on her own. Magik interprets that lecture to be accusing her of putting Cal in danger. As so often in this book, Magik lashes out rather defensively at this allegation, but her narration and private behaviour elsewhere suggest that she actually agrees with him.<\/p>\n

Liminal<\/strong> seems to be drawing a sigil of some sort, though it doesn’t appear to mean anything to Magik. The next scene has Illyana and Dani arguing even more than normal, and Illyana finding herself following Liminal’s lead during the fight, so perhaps the sigil is something to do with that.<\/p>\n

His claim that he didn’t do anything is obvious nonsense, but perhaps he’s just trying to make sure that they bring him along on the mission instead of parking him on a rooftop by making sure to look as untrustworthy as possible.<\/p>\n

PAGES 6-14.<\/strong>\u00a0Magik, Mirage and Liminal fight the Scarlet Eye.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Scarlet Eye appear to have either psychic or magical illusion defences which make the room appear to be full of hallucinatory enemies.<\/p>\n

While Magik seems strangely compelled to follow Liminal’s suggestions in this scene, the suggestions themselves\u00a0are<\/em> basically sensible. Nonetheless, Liminal has started talking as if everyone else is fulfilling a mission for him.<\/p>\n

Mirage is able to use her powers to create an illusion for the Scarlet Eye based on\u00a0Liminal<\/em>‘s fear of being returned to his prison dimension.<\/p>\n

PAGES 15-16. <\/strong>Magik and Mirage talk after the<\/em> fight.<\/p>\n

This is obviously the point where they reconcile their arguments that have been ongoing throughout the series (perhaps because it kind of needs wrapped up before we reach “Age of Revelation”).<\/p>\n

Liminal argues that the Society entirely failed to prepare Magik and Mirage for what they just fought, and suggests that it was a suicide mission. While they don’t trust Liminal at all, both immediately agree that he’s made a legitimate point here.<\/p>\n

“If I were leading this mission during Krakoa…”<\/strong> Presumably in her capacity as one of the Krakoan Captains.<\/p>\n

PAGES 17-20.\u00a0<\/strong>Magik and co retrieve the Quill.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Quill is in the possession of an incoherent man who has apparently been using it to create the illusions from earlier in the issue. The Scarlet Eye turn out to be defectors from the Society, although since the bit about drug dealers seems to have been true as well, they may not have been saints either.<\/p>\n

“They feed my name to their star and I slowly unravel.” <\/strong>Last issue, the Embodiment caimed to have created the Society’s tower “by confining a falling star and forcing it to invert”, whatever that means.<\/p>\n

Lexi Larsen<\/strong> is one of the three Exemplars we saw working for the Society last issue – she was the “Exemplar of Recruitment”. She can create golems, like the two we see in the background. She’s removed the smiley-face half-mask she wore last issue, showing some sort of energy effect on her mouth. (Her eyes do glow green in a couple of panels of that issue, though.)<\/p>\n

The two guys behind her with machetes are presumably Society members; we didn’t see anyone wearing this sort of black ops gear at the tower in the previous issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAGIK vol 3 #8 “Frayed Not Broken” Writer: Ashley Allen Artist: Matt Horak Colour artist: Arthur Hesli Letterer: Ariana Maher Editor: Darren Shan COVER: Symbolic image of Magik in Liminal’s hand, which would been a better fit for the previous arc. PAGES 1-4.\u00a0Magik, Mirage and Liminal track down the Scarlet Eye. Okay, recap: Last issue, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}