The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of THE MAGDALENA #1 from Image Comics and Top Cow Productions. Tini Howard and Ryan
Cady write, Christian DiBari draws, Mike Spicer colors, and Troy Peteri letters.
Maya is your average community college student. She’s
bright, but she’s young, and she ditches church with her mom to hang out with
her goth friends. There’s this guy she likes, but he’s gotten weird lately.
When they meet at a club, he starts acting strange, like a junkie. They go to
the local diner, and when he explodes in a cloud of flies, a strange woman with
a spear comes out of nowhere. Maya grabs the spear, and it just feels right.
The Magdalena is back, and things are, well, complicated. But
it wouldn’t be any fun otherwise, and that’s really what makes this a great
first issue. There’s a bunch of questions, not many answers, and enough action
to keep it interesting. And the art handles darkness and light to really cool
effect.
The new Magdalena is rough and untrained, but she has
potential. Patience will need to live up to her name in order to prepare Maya
for what is coming. Get on board here at the beginning.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
