Major Spoilers Podcast #939: The Black Mage

This week, we take a look at The Black Mage Volume 1, dish the dirt on Avatar: The Last Airbender casting, and the live action adaptation of My Hero Academia finds a director! We review Eat the Rich #1 from BOOM! Studios, Radiant Black #7 from Image Comics, and Norse Mythology II #3 from Dark Horse Comics.

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NEWS

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/my-hero-academia-director-live-action-1235041442/

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/venom-let-there-be-carnage-release-date-change-1235037720/

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/avatar-the-last-airbender-netflix-live-action-series-cast-1235040170/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eaglemoss/transformers-gen-1-chess-set


REVIEWS

STEPHEN


EAT THE RICH #1


Writer: Sarah Gailey


Artist: Pius Bak


Publisher: BOOM! Studios


Cover Price: $3.99


Release Date: August 18, 2021

Welcome to Crestfall Bluffs! With law school and her whole life ahead of her, Joey plans to spend the summer with her boyfriend Astor in his seemingly perfect hometown. It’s a chance to finally meet his family and childhood friends, all while enjoying a vacation where every need is attended to. But beneath the affluent perfection lies a dark, deadly rot… will Joey discover the truth before it’s too late, and even if she does, can she survive to tell the tale?

[rating:3/5]

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MATTHEW


RADIANT BLACK #7


Writer: Kyle Higgins


Artist: Marcelo Costa


Publisher: Image Comics


Cover Price: $3.99


Release Date: August 18, 2021


Picking up from the shocking ending of issue five, Radiant Black’s life just got a whole lot more complicated. Pursued by a new enemy and not sure who to trust, will our hero escape with his life? Or is this the beginning of the end for RADIANT BLACK?

[rating:3/5]

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RODRIGO


NORSE MYTHOLOGY II #3


Writer: Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell


Artist: Mark Buckingham


Publisher: Dark Horse Comics


Cover Price: $3.99


Release Date: August 25, 2021

Thor and Loki stumble upon sleeping giant who takes them on a journey to the giant king who gives them a bizarre challenge to participate in.

[rating: 4/5]

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DISCUSSION

THE BLACK MAGE


Writer: Daniel Barnes


Artist: DJ Kirkland


Publisher: Oni Press


Release Date: October 29, 2019

When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's "Magical Minority Initiative," begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all the way back to the American Civil War, and could cost Tom his very soul.


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