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| Mystic v. 2: The Demon Queen | 
| Authors: Ron Marz, Brandon Peterson
Publisher: Cross Generation Comics
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1173325
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1931484066
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5
EAN: 9781931484060
ASIN: 1931484066
Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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Product Description
Ciress is a world that runs on magic, and those with the most magic run the world. Genevieve Villard was in line to become a great leader, but during her Rite of Ascension something went horribly wrong. Her sister Giselle, a flibbertigibbet society girl, was conferred not only the power that was rightly Genevieves but that of every other Guild Master on Ciress. Now Giselle must come to terms with being the magical protector of her entire planet if the Guild Masters let her live that long. The second volume of Mystic introduces Animora, a demon queen brought back to life in a dubious scheme of the Guild Masters to regain their powers. They swiftly learn what it is to make a deal with a devil, as Animora double-crosses the Guild Masters and threatens to enslave all Ciress. Only the power of Giselle`s mysterious sigil and the combined wisdom of the Guild Spirits can stop Animora`s evil. PUBCOMMENTS Ron Marz has been writing comics since 1990, giving up a journalism career when he found that it was more fun to make up the stories. In those years, he has written extensively for publishers including DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Image, and Acclaim. You've read his work in the pages of Superboy, Silver Surfer, Star Wars Tales, StormWatch, X-O Manowar, DC vs. Marvel, the Amalgam title Dr. Strangefate, and most notably Green Lantern. He brought his skills and voracious fans with him to CrossGen, where he writes the titles Scion, Sojourn, The Path, and Crossgen Chronicles. Ron received a Harvey Awards nomination as Best Writer in 2002 for his work on Scion, which was also nominated for Best Continuing Series.
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 Every page is a pin-up - gimmee a break! December 24, 2007
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.
 Another fine TPB in the mystic series December 25, 2003
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.
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