More like a 3.5. The story was alright, and only improved, especially with the last couple issues. Enjoying the new characters. Liked that it’s a lot more inclusive than the originals and the show. The artwork is pretty, however, is not doing it for me, though. Everything seems pretty hasty. The covers are great. Just wish the interior had a similar style, even if it was speed painting it would fit the cover work better and be a huge improvement imo.

The world of Brakebills has always had some sexual tension. There has also been a decent amount of queerness and homoeroticism. Now, that is all out in the open and it plays decently well. I worry a little bit that it may be too rigid. I have always assumed that there is something about the power that lets these folks see past the rigid sexualities. The way that this tale is told seems to still have some structure. Once again, that has to do with my original reading of the novels. Of course, Lev...

Loved everything about it ! The plot and characters were intersting, The artwork was great, and also Great ending

I didn't care much for this, partly because none of the characters were charming or interesting (no investment in their success or failure), partly because I just don't care for the art style of American comics. Makes me think twice about picking up Alice's Story, because although it sounds like it might be really interesting, I don't have much faith that I'll enjoy it.

First off, I'm entirely the wrong person to review this. So basically, discard everything I'm about to say. I've never read the books. I loved loved loved that TV show. And that's so backwards for me. It's literally the only time i can think of that I've liked a screen version more than a paper version. If you fall into that category (I can't imagine there are many of us) this might not be the right choice for you. The characters that carry over into this story are the versions from the books, n...

This was genuinely one of the most grotesquely horrid things I could have picked up to read. I really love the original series. It's innovative, it's weird. It has a ton of soul. It takes a group of incredibly flawed, unpleasant people and then it manages to break them and build them up and by the end I couldn't help caring about them. It was good. It had this defined mood. Something that worked for me. This one, though. It feels like the writer only read some sort of a short summary without un...

This story was much better than Alice’s story. I felt like it had a good balance in length, although comparing it to Alice’s story there could have been double the issues and still be a compact story except with more build up in tension. I’m positive about the inclusivity in this story. The transgendered person, the non-binary person who is respectfully being referred to by everybody by their correct pronouns (they/them) and the gay kiss. It was very not in your face, how I feel inclusivity shou...

I loved diving back into Brakebills; this was quite a short story and I want more!

Giving this one an extra star for potential in a comic that didn't have time to go anywhere. But the plots were totally ham-fisted and clearly tied up too early. I feel like the world and characters could have worked if they'd had time to grow.But definitely don't bother reading it. Nothing of interest happens.

Set firmly in the world of the Magicians books and not the TV show, it's a new day at Brakebills when a class of Hedge Witches are inducted into the hallowed halls. Of course, that goes about as well as can be expected, with murder, magic, and mischief galore in these five issues.Lilah Sturges and Pius Bak are old hands at Magicians books by now - their Alice OGN was fantastic, and getting a bit more freedom to inhabit the world and craft characters and stories of their own really works in their...

I’m a major major fan of the book series and the tv show so I was excited to get another addendum to the series I love so much. But... well. The build up to the final climax set us up for what ended up a very anticlimactic resolution where it basically amounted to: this person is a serious threat and we should all be afraid and careful of them only to defeat them in one panel and they give up and leave. There were a couple of jumps in narration that just didn’t make sense(going from daytime in l...

4.25 stars! I hope that there will be more installments love me some hedge witches. :)

I really liked the first issue, but from there on the story started to move too fast. I love Brakebills, but for me that's not what The Magicians is about. The TV show had a similar problem where it was more about being a Narnia/Hogwarts where you can die instead of actually looking at the genre tropes and playing with those.

This is a graphic novel taking place some years after Alice and company have left Brakebills. The school is changing in that it is going to allow hedge witches to enter the school which causes trouble between the students that have been at Brakebills and the hedge witches (who they don't consider to be true witches.)What makes things worse is that the three hedge witches are being entered as third year students which, naturally, makes the students that have been at the school jealous. One of the...

If you like the books, you’ll probably like this. If you like the show, you’ll definitely like this—it hews more closely to the sensibilities of the latter than the former.One thing, however, is for sure: it is, it turns out, vastly superior to Saved By the Bell: The New Class (then again, so is a dried-up slug). BUT—is the original Magicians class superior to the original SBTB class? Whoa boy. Now we’ve got ourselves a contest. And now someone needs to contract me to write the living feces out

*More like 3.5 stars than 3.*Like a 100m dash, this comic was so incredibly fast-paced. It skimped on the character growth and fast-forwarded through all the action. There were convenient resolutions abound and lacklustre late revelations. Yet there was something sort of endearing about this ragtag bunch of young adults. They didn't have that same great dynamic of the original class of Brakebills student (aka Quentin & co.), but they certainly made for an interesting and diverse group. The level...

I only picked this book up because I thoroughly enjoyed both the books and TV show and thought graphic novel spin off set in the same world could be fun. This was so far below the mark it's difficult to find nice things to say about this one. If you find this review before reading please take my word. This is not cannon nor is a necessity to read for you to be a fan of the magicians.

At some point after the original trilogy, the Brakebills staff decide to let hedge witches into the school as third years, without making them make up courses or pass the entrance exam, an exam many of them have probably already failed. They also hire the leader of a coven to become a teacher at the school. For about a page or two, the students face prejudice. Then they discover the real reason they are there, (view spoiler)[to fight an ex-student who believes they need to stop a possible future...

Im gonna need more of this asap! Feels true to the original series and yet opens things up in an exciting new direction. Love it!

Another graphic novel by the team that brought us Alice's story and it is every bit as good. This is new territory. Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy has invited talented hedge witches to join the student body. Why is a secret. It seems a talented student at Brakebills has turned rogue. They have been stealing books containing dangerous magics. Their purpose is unknown. They have been leaving dead magicians and hedge witches in their wake. They must be stopped.The story gives us both sides...