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NETFLIX: INTRODUCES MILLARWORLD MAG AND STREAMS SERIES
The Magic Order now best-selling new comic.
Flashback to last month when a thin envelope with a red ribbon appeared on my desk. Too big to be a traffic fine and not thick enough to hold a book or manuscript, what fell out was suprising. Netflix dropped their very first comic book, The Magic Order, in June and it’s, dare I say, magical (and smart).
Not just because the cliffhanger-like first edition introduces a number of characters and mesmerises with darkly stunning graphics, it’s cultivating a readymade audience for its first slate of series based on Mark Millar’s work.
Netflix acquired Millar’s company, Millarworld, last year and has started developing projects with Mark and Lucy Millar.
These included The Magic Order, which has been published as Netflix’s first comic book.
Since its release it has become the biggest selling new comic book franchise in nearly 20 years.
“My wife Lucy and I are 11 months into our jobs at Netflix and it’s everything we hoped for.
“To see a movie based on your work every couple of years is incredibly exciting, but to see them all happening at once like this and with talent this high-end is just off the scale.
“These are writers and directors I’ve privately been sending fan-mail to over the last 18 months so to be working with them all is just enormously exciting.
“This really is the greatest creative environment I’ve ever worked in.
“I can’t wait to switch on my computer every morning.”
The Magic Order is a dark fantasy graphic novel written by Millar with Marvel’s Olivier Coipel (Thor, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man) as the artist for the first volume.
This series will be stretched over six issues in which magic meets the mob as five families of magicians sworn to protect our world face an enemy killing these wizards and witches in bizarre and eerie ways.
If the sorcerers, magicians and wizards can’t protect us against this darkness, how will humans defend themselves?
Do yourself a favour and get your hands on The Magic Order volume one.