Product Description: He's a media darling, a vital part of the X-Men dynamic and the newest member of the team. His name: the Magician! Watch him live up to his name in ways you could never conceive. There is more - much, much more about this new mutant than any suspect. Meanwhile, a tormented Jean Grey is having great difficulty dealing with the results of the Shi'ar testing. Elsewhere...Dazzler stirs. Collects Ultimate X-Men #72-74, Annual #2.
Spring cleaning before Cable Presumably this was just published to clear the plot-decks before the next arc ('Cable'). Even with an annual added for filler, this volume is disturbingly slim.
As an added bonus: Nothing actually happens in the larger narrative. The 'Magical' storyline has nothing to do with... well... anything. Not the core Marvel universe, not the Ultimate universe, not the larger storyline, not nothin'.
The result is not only spectacularly pedestrian reading, but also completely irrelevant to the series as a whole.
Everything isnt magic Not the best run of the series but I give Kirkman credit for introducing a completely new character to the marvel universe and using it to explore how the innate abilities of the most powerful mutants can not only effect the lives of people but actually dictate their very actions.
However I do love the annual story line involving night crawler. The handling of night crawler was pure genius. I give magical a *** out of five but I give the annual story line a **** out of five.
So So I didn't care much for this collection. It is rather short, collecting just a few issues and the annual. The regular series art was good, but I didn't care for the artwork in the annual. A new character is introduced by the name of the Magacian. I just didn't like the character or the resolution. The Nightcrawler storyline was more entertaining.
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