Madame Xanadu #15

[Jeff of Earth-J]

I didn’t even know there was a Madame Xanadu title currently being published. Imagine my surprise when, attracted by the Michael Kaluta cover art, I picked up what I thought was a one-shot only to discover it was issue#15! I very seldom ever buy comics on a whim anymore, but Kaluta did the interior art as well so I thought I’d give it a shot. Honestly, I didn’t even notice that the splash page said “part five”; it looked to me like a done-in-one and the last page said “The End” so I figured it was a one-off adventure. I’m sure I didn’t pick up on everything going on in the story, but the action was set 1940 with alternating scenes flashing back to 1493, and nobody does historic settings better than Micael Kaluta (well, maybe Michael Zulli does them as well). The clincher was that issue featured Wesley Dodds as Sandman with Dian Belmont. The issue also features a seven-page preview of the first chapter of a new Fables prose novel. Anyone out there reading Madame Xanadu?

[Dagwan]

It's a terrific series, and the first TPB has the first 10 issues for $13.

It fits in that early Sandman/ Swamp Thing/ Animal Man/ Doom Patrol area of Vertigo where titles lay that may be part of actual DCU continuity, but don't have to be.

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[Jeff of Earth-J]

Thanks, Dags! Is Kaluta the series' regular artist?

[Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)]

10 issues for $13? That's a bargain I might not be able to pass up...

[Dagwan]

The regular art team is Amy Reeder Hadley and Richard Friend. Their art style has a drop of manga influences that works really really well with Matt Wagner's stories. They return as artists next issue.

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"You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it." -Groucho Marx

Check out the Secret Headquarters (my store) website! It's a pretty lame website, but I did it myself, so tough noogies

Listen to WOXY.com, it's the future of rock-n-roll!

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[Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod)]

I finished the first trade recently; there's a review in my "Mr. Vertigo Reviews" thread. I like it a lot, and in fact I recommended it to fans of the DC magic characters generally. It really doesn't appear to have been tailored for Vertigo.

[Jeff of Earth-J]

Thanks, Mark. I'll look for it there.