Customer Reviews

Mystic v. 2: The Demon Queen

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This is the second book in the series, so if you've gotten this far, then yo may already be a ware of many of the weaknesses in this book.

Firstly, the printing and binding is not so good. Illustations have a lot of color and these are printed well. However, where the pages are glued together overlaps with the printed frames of the comic. So, in order to read dialogue near the edges of the page, you have to really pry the pages apart and try and look in the crack then guess what the part of the word that you can't see is. This is doable, when trying to decipher a word. It makes viewing an entire picture at once impossible.

The story is OK. It flows nicely in and out of back stories for the characters and world. I didn't get so pulled in, but I can see how a person could get really into the series. I was distracted by the over-the-top-flowery language that the characters often use, and the fact that all women were poured into whatever they happened to be wearing at the moment. It's very over the top. Any of these women could have been instantly transported to a strip-club scene in a rap video and fit right in. Every page is a pin-up - Give me a break, please! That may well be a plus for the gentlemen fans out there.

Overall this is a very skippable comic, but might be worth taking a look at were it to be reprinted so that the whole page is visible.

This is the second TPB (Trade Paper Back) combining issues 8 through 14 of Crossgen's Mystic Series.

The story is if anything stronger than the first voulme as we get an explaination of several previously introduced but mysterious characters. The production values are excellent with great color reproduction. The art is beautiful, the beautiful women are gorgeous, the monsters are truely monstrous.

The plot for this arc revolves around the guild masters who have lost their sign of legitimacy, the ancient guild spirits, and are desperate to not lose political power. Nearly maddened by the fear they hatch a plot to release the most horrible threat the planet of Ciress has ever faced and then betrayer her again. It's a plan of absolute madness...obviously there are going to be problems. (In fact they will still be trying to clean them up in volume 3; but this is still a nicely selfcontained story arc.)

A 5-star book with a place of honor on my shelves.