Every week we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore…
Today we look at the debuts of four notable witches. Jennifer Kale, Topaz and Satana because they actually appeared in a comic book series called Witches and Agatha Harkness just because she is awesome.
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Magick-Users in Comic Books: the Scarlet Witch — The Juggler: The Pagan Newswire Collective
The most famous Witch superhero of all (Wanda Maximoff, aka The Scarlet Witch) is a fascinatingly multi-faceted character, with unusual and demonstrable cross-over appeal….She has the unique ability to create “hex energy,” causing disasters, calamities, and unforeseen misfortunes to occur. Handy though this is in battling adversaries, it is unpredictable; she cannot tell what effects she will unleash with her “hexes,” and initially even the smallest gesture could loose her power. This gave the Scarlet Witch an interesting tension, imposing a certain containment of being upon her….
The erratic nature of her haphazard power still proved vexing, however, and so the Scarlet Witch (in an interesting subtext, as this mirrors in comics what was going on “for real” in various circles of NYC), the Scarlet Witch began to look for avenues of instruction in the Magickal Arts proper. Whereas before the name “Scarlet Witch” had been metaphoric for her Mutant “Hex Power”: she wished to actualize it, by becoming a Witch for real. But who to help her in this quest? Enter another (cross-over) Marvel character: the Witch of the Marvel Universe, Agatha Harkness…(who basically becomes, if you think about it, the Scarlet Witch’s initiating High Priestess)….
Juggler reader Karen responded with the perceptive observation, that the Scarlet Witch could then be spun off into her own independent feature, centered around her Witchcraft instruction with Agatha. Voila! Not only a Superheroine movie: but a Superheroine Witch movie to boot! Ah, that the Gods might make it so!
Nico Minoru by Dustin Nguyen
This drawing kicks so much ass…I love Dustin’s work. <3
Reminds me a bit of Black Alice with the spiky tails.
Here you go, lexidizzle, my new Circle of Three soulmate! Temporary tattoos from the Circle of Three series. The only ones that are missing are the ones that actually said “Circle of Three” along with a couple more pentagrams. I have a full sheet hidden from myself somewhere, because my sixteen year-old self thought “I must preserve the awesome for posterity!” But, of course, now I can’t find them.
YAY! Thanks Thorn! (BTW, this is totally lexidizzle, on my sort-of defunct/indefinitely-hiatused blog about “trashy” witchy YA books :D)
Old Magic fan-trailer
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Quite a lot going on on the Cate Tiernan covers front!
Hi. My name is Traci 13. I’m dating your son. I brought cookies.
- Blue Beetle v2 #24
LOL one of my favorite scenes
Cassie Blake is devastated when her summer vacation in Massachusetts is made permanent when her mother insists they have to move in with her grandmother in small town New Salem. But her disappointment soon gives way to shock when she encounters The Club at school—the elite clique that even the teachers submit to. But the biggest shock isn’t that they’re witches, it’s that Cassie is actually one of them. Soon she is locked in an internal struggle between those who use their powers for good and for evil, and she soon discovers that the decision is not as easy as it seems. When a centuries-old evil starts to infiltrate their coven and tries to bring them all under its control, Cassie finds herself with choices to make, and one wrong step could spell doom to all….
these are all my charmed books.
incomplete, i know.
i intend to complete these though.
whenever i pass by a bookstore (even if it is a book store for used books), whenever i see a Charmed book, i’ll grab the book and pay for it immediately. haha!
I’ve been rewatching Charmed and feel the urge to find these books now.
Zatanna, Traci 13, and Circe. Awesome.
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Sarah Connor Chronicles survivor Thomas Dekker has landed the male lead in the Kevin Williamson-produced CW drama pilot Secret Circle.
Based on the book series from Vampire Diaries author L.J. Smith, Secret revolves around a young woman named Cassie (Life Unexpected’s Britt Robertson) who discovers that not only is she a witch and part of a top-secret coven, but she’s also the key that will unlock a centuries-old battle between good and evil.
Dekker plays Adam, the oldest member of the aforementioned coven and a love interest for Cassie.
NOM.
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Gorgeous cover!!! And great title!
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