G. Willow Wilson Relaunches Crossgen's Mystic at Marvel

This makes sense to me. I didn't like G. Willow Wilson's Vertigo series Air (affiliate link). The problem wasn't that the writing was bad nor was it that I didn't like the story. And art was beautiful. What didn't work with Air for me was that it (or at least the first collection) was too much like The Invisibles (affiliate link). I love The Invisibles (there's a post there one day), as strange as that book was. It wasn't just the similarities and differences between Air and The Invisibles that turned me off. It really boiled down to the fact that I had literally finished reading The Invisibles the week before I read Air. If I hadn't just read The Invisibles, I probably would have liked Air.

The whole point of this ramble is to say that I like G. Willow Wilson's writing and think she is probably the perfect choice to reimagine Crossgen's Mystic for Marvel. And this "Mean Girls goes to Hogwarts" concept makes a lot of sense.

The art by David Lopez is beautiful. I didn't remember his name before, but he was the artist on Hawkeye & Mockingbird (affiliate link), which was a beautiful book. He's one to watch. I need to go find more work he's done.

For now it's a four issue mini series and hopefully we'll want and get more once it's done.

I need to go back and reread Air now that it's been a while and see how I like it.

via Newsarama