There is no depth to the character beyond his singular need to find his mother; his character lacks the depth and complexity of other Sandman universe characters.

Terribly paced - some parts are draggy and some are rush. It's shallow (emotionally and philosophically) and full of cliché and overused tropes. In compare to The Wayward series this book is much worse.

This is probably the most ambivalent I've been on a comic in a while. On the one hand, I like the art and Kat Howard pleasantly surprised me with her first novel (Roses & Rot) and does relatively well writing this one. However, the main character is just that perfect mixture of annoying brat and blah teenager that makes me yawn and the plot is slow on its feet with very basic teases of evil to come. There's the mysterious mentor, the evil elite society, the mundanely magical occurrences around o...

3,5/5 Come on, it has a magical boy and it's set in the sandman universe, I had to read this! The cover art are the most gorgeous ever, but the way the interior art draws faces is weird/ugly. Otherwise everything from the dream lands, to library settings and etc are gorgeous. I love the owl !

This was a nice collection of early Books Of Magic / Tim Hunter stories, numbers one through to six (I think). The artwork was a particular draw for me in these ones, nice, atmospheric often great colouring and creative framing. The stories were... ok. I have to confess, I never loved the Books of Magic as much as I wanted to. I Adored the original The Books of Magic by Neil Gaiman and very much enjoyed The Books of Magic, Volume 1: Bindings by John Ney Rieber but the rest of the series never re...

I never read Neil Gaiman's original 4-issue run of Books of Magic, nor did I read any of the subsequent runs, so, naturally, of the four titles initially announced for the first wave of Sandman Universe series, this one was the one I was least interested in. It's not that I wasn't interested in the premise - I love a good story about people learning how to do magic - but it was more the idea that, due to my lack of knowledge of any of the previous stories, I'd be totally lost going into this com...

It's been ages since I read the original miniseries, so I can't really compare. And I'm not sure I ever read the ongoing series, though it seems that was largely ignored. Taken on its own merits, this is a book with some good ideas but with a plot that is just a little stretched. This could have been four issues, but with six it's short and a bit repetitive. That said, things really get going in the last issue collected here, and I'm interested to see more.

A pleasant return to magic and The Dreaming.Kat Howard’s graphic novel Books of Magic Volume One: Moveable Type (2019) is a fine sequel to Neil Gaiman’s Books of Magic from 1990. Her comic is very intriguing as the next step in Timothy Hunter’s magical journey into a London wizard. Neil Gaiman’s original graphic novel Books of Magic is riveting and thoughtful with high caliber writing. Gaiman does write the opening Sandman sequence that is another amazing chapter in Dream’s surreal odyssey. Kat

Kat Howard's writing isn't necessarily bad, but it is severely decompressed. These 6 issues should have taken 2. It takes forever for the series to progress. It also seems like the 90's and 00's Books of Magic series were both ignored, leaving Neil Gaiman's and John Bolton's mini-series as the only canon left. I really missed Molly from the 90's series. Tom Fowler draws weird faces that leave characters looking like they have slits across their cheeks. Jordan Boyd's colors are really good though...

Tim Hunter could be the most powerful magician of his age...if he could work out how magic works, of course. With some help (?) from Doctor Occult, Tim takes his first steps into the world of magic, but the consequences of his foray will haunt him and those he cares about forever.Books Of Magic is a great concept. It's Harry Potter, but dingier, and a little less well-formed. These first six issues set up the basics, drawing on the older Books Of Magic concepts from back in the day and giving th...

1/5~ This is a no for me. Didn't enjoy and will not be continuing with this series.

1.5*Supposedly this is a good starting point into the Sandman Universe...I completely disagee. Nothing was explained, a lot of characters are name-dropped and the reader is thrown right into the middle of a seemingly long ongoing plot.The pacing is way too fast.On top of that the main character is completely flat and uninteresting.Overall very unsatisfying.

Right before reading this book, I read the original Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman, and boy, are these two oceans apart!My main problem with this series is how it perceives magic. Gaiman was careful to imbue magic with mystery and danger, as if surrounded with a hushed silence. There are consequences to wielding magic, and those consequences might not be directly noticeable. You have to tread very carefully.This book basically sees magic as mechanical, as machinery - it's a weapon that goes ZAP!...

I enjoyed this well enough but it shouldn't have been 6 whole issues. I'm going to see what the 2nd trade is like and decide fully from there on whether or not I continue on. A solid three stars. It was fun but it didn't blow my mind.

Another underwhelming DC/Vertigo-reboot.I mean, why reboot the Books of Magic in the first place? I guess it had gone far past its comfortable niche with the later series. So, we could accept a reboot if this new series were great.But this new series is just OK. We have a young Tim Hunter. We have the traditional prophecies. We have a really quick ramp-up on him doing magic. We have an alternate love interest. We have Rose hanging around, totally stealing his agency. We have a gratuitous crossov...

Dark, magical and full of mystery.This beautifully illustrated story drew me in and kept me on my toes from start to finish. Dark fantasy mixed with murder and mystery. It was so good, I can't wait to read more!

2.5 starsWhen you reboot a series, you will inevitably invite comparisons between the reboot and the original. And I am sad to say that the first volume of this series pales in comparison to John Ney Rieber's ongoing Books of Magic series from the 1990s. This one does have potential for future greatness, but the first arc is so slow to drag along and get moving, it's really kind of a snore. The adventure hook that comes in at the end of the volume really should have happened about four issues pr...

The other Sandman Universe books have their flaws, but they do at least feel like prestige projects. This is just miserable and dull. As a character, Tim Hunter has always struggled since another fated boy wizard with glasses and an owl turned up, but creators have found interesting ways to work around that, not least in the much underappreciated Books of Magick: Life During Wartime. All of which this reboot wipes out, instead picking up right after the original miniseries, except that it's now

Timothy Hunter has a problem. According to some prophecy he will become the greatest mage of all time. He will also choose to use his powers for evil. As a result some of the good guys want to kill him. There is also a group dedicated to evil who want to kill him in case he decides not to become evil. And we thought Harry Potter had it bad. All Timothy wants to do is find his mother who disappeared some time ago. Fortunately he does have an ally, a young lady named Dr. Rose, who seems to have ma...

It all felt extremely familiar, and that’s not a description I’d like to use for a Neil Gaiman inspired work. I thought we were supposed to be branching off to a brave new world. Maybe had the action picked up a little bit quicker and if Timothy had visited the Dreaming sooner, it might’ve worked? Not a fan of the drawing style. Nice colors though!