MARVEL MAGIC HANDBOOK #1

[-K-M-]

Anyone pick it up? Apparently it was suppose to come out today and Talisman has an entry.

[maniac mike]

My comic shop didn't have it this week, I'm guessing it will have it next week.

MM :x

[PWalk]

Just stopped into my LCS and it wasn't there.

[Phil]

It didn't ship last week and isn't due to ship this week as it stands.

[Loki]

Anyone pick it up? Apparently it was suppose to come out today and Talisman has an entry.

It got bumped back a few weeks so that it's release could coincide with other parts of Mystic Arcana; I believe it's also had a slight rename to Official Marvel Handbook: Mystic Arcana to further tie it in.

And Talisman isn't the only Alpha-related entry in it....

[-K-M-]

Your the man Loki! and oh? who else? :D

*high fives*

[DelBubs]

My monies on Llan :-) Or maybe the Great Beasts, given that they figure prominently in the latter stages of OF. :o

[Loki]

Your the man Loki! and oh? who else? :D

That'd spoil the surprise. :P

[-K-M-]

Dreamqueen is a possibility and the Great Beasts.

So is there a date when it will finally be released?

[Loki]

Dreamqueen is a possibility and the Great Beasts.

So is there a date when it will finally be released?

Not sure - we've done all the proofing and afaik it went to the printers on time for the original release date, so I'd guess it'll be in the next few weeks.

[Mokole]

Thanks for the news.

[Loki]

Update: Out this Wednesday seemingly.

[-K-M-]

Update: Out this Wednesday seemingly.

Well...that worked out well for us, haha.

[-K-M-]

Picked it up today and just awesome, I usually have some issues with some of the enteries power/abilities, but man it covered it all. Awesome stuff, great job Loki

Enteries:
Earthmover
Llan
Pestilence
Talisman
Tribe of the Moon
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Also to note guess who may have had a hand in Alpha Flight's death in the Collective? as he cursed them to death.

[Loki]

Picked it up today and just awesome, I usually have some issues with some of the enteries power/abilities, but man it covered it all. Awesome stuff, great job Loki
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Thanks, though I can only claim credit for Talisman - other members of the team wrote the rest. Glad you liked it.

[Legerd]

Also to note guess who may have had a hand in Alpha Flight's death in the Collective? as he cursed them to death.

Would that be Llan? Does it actually hint that he may have had a hand in their deaths?

[-K-M-]

Thanks, though I can only claim credit for Talisman - other members of the team wrote the rest. Glad you liked it.

The Talisman entry was very well done, covered her entire history and good lord you literally covered every single power she has done. Cuidos

[-K-M-]

Would that be Llan? Does it actually hint that he may have had a hand in their deaths?

Yes, Llan

"...forcing Llan to flee the Earth dimension, but not before cursing the Alphans to suffer horrible deaths before the Earth's ultimate corruption, a curse whose workings may have finally begun with the team's recent decimation by Collective"

[Legerd]

Would that be Llan? Does it actually hint that he may have had a hand in their deaths?

Yes, Llan

"...forcing Llan to flee the Earth dimension, but not before cursing the Alphans to suffer horrible deaths before the Earth's ultimate corruption, a curse whose workings may have finally begun with the team's recent decimation by Collective"

Nice. 8)

[cmdrkoenig67]

Would that be Llan? Does it actually hint that he may have had a hand in their deaths?

Yes, Llan

"...forcing Llan to flee the Earth dimension, but not before cursing the Alphans to suffer horrible deaths before the Earth's ultimate corruption, a curse whose workings may have finally begun with the team's recent decimation by Collective"

Nice. 8)

Hmmm...Hopefully nobody is going to try and suggest that Bendis planned the Alpha deaths with Llan's curse in mind...I'm sorry, but BMB man doesn't have it in him to think of it (on his own, at least). I'm guessing the credit belongs solely to the writers of the Handbook for making the connection. Good on them, bad on Alpha Flight.

Dana

[DelBubs]

Nice little mention of Puck 1 in the Modred entry, but I always thought they had fought the Brass Bishop not the Black Bishop :? . Still a nice addition to any collection.

[Legerd]

Would that be Llan? Does it actually hint that he may have had a hand in their deaths?

Yes, Llan

"...forcing Llan to flee the Earth dimension, but not before cursing the Alphans to suffer horrible deaths before the Earth's ultimate corruption, a curse whose workings may have finally begun with the team's recent decimation by Collective"

Nice. 8)

Hmmm...Hopefully nobody is going to try and suggest that Bendis planned the Alpha deaths with Llan's curse in mind...I'm sorry, but BMB man doesn't have it in him to think of it (on his own, at least). I'm guessing the credit belongs solely to the writers of the Handbook for making the connection. Good on them, bad on Alpha Flight.

Dana

I certainly am not crediting BMB for that bit of continuity connection, considering how badly he wrote the characters when he... killed them. I tip my hat to the Handbook folks for coming up with that. Loki, please pass on my thanks to whoever thought of that. :D

[Loki]

Glad you liked it, and will do.

As for them being dead..., well, we've been told to assume they are for writing Handbook profiles, and told that it wasn't the temporal duplicates (who we are led to believe may have vanished / returned home under undisclosed circumstances since the end of the last Alpha volume), and I totally get that Oeming and other writers don't want to deal with some of the messy continuity that has beset Alpha. But this is also the Marvel Universe, and Bucky and Captain Marvel are both up and breathing again, so (as a fan, not as an official opinion on anything) I figure it's only a matter of time till most of them "get better".

[Loki]

Nice little mention of Puck 1 in the Modred entry, but I always thought they had fought the Brass Bishop not the Black Bishop :? . Still a nice addition to any collection.

I believe you are right, from my recall of Puck's adventures (having re-read them all for his entry not that long ago). Will double check, but looks like a mistake slipped through - Black Bishop for Brass Bishop. Thanks for spotting it.

[-K-M-]

Yeah it's suppose to be Brass Bishop, as the flashback happened in Alpha Flight vol.2