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Since when is Man-Thing a Midnight Son? Well, it makes for a great cover and a much-better-than-usual issue.
All of #8 is a single story: “A Kynd of Magick,” written by Dan Abnett with three(!) artists.\
Of course the Man-Thing parts are my favorite.
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It starts with a mystic-powered tank moving through Man-Thing’s swamp, blasting him, and then sending three blue beams out of the swamp. Each beam kidnaps a magic character: Modred the Mystic gets taken in a library.
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Scarlet Witch just visited Avengers Mansion, gets taken, and wakes up in a prison with Modred.
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And then the blue beams take Strange (Paradox version).
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The enemy turns out to be “The Clave,” an alternate timeline technomystic who is looking for Earth-616 artifacts. In a separate story, Blade tracks them to Man-Thing’s swamp (this seems out of Blade’s area of jurisdiction and also not his typical vampire prey), and eventually all the stories tie together and The Clave are expelled.
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This series will end next issue. It’s too bad it took this long to get to become good.