![]() ![]() It’s a perfectly constructed homage, a spiritual mystery with a great final page, the best story in a fine collection, the beauty breathed in via Kei Zama’s art (sample left). Several people construct a whole from their snippets about who someone was when still living, while simultaneously revealing themselves. The final chapter is where his character creation is most refined, as Robinson offers a variation on a form of storytelling best known via the classic Japanese film Rashomon. Robinson has always built rounded people, and can now manage that with a line or two of dialogue. This isn’t just for Scarlet Witch, who’s consistent in being knowing, her old uncertainties a matter consigned to the past, nor for other known quantities who appear. It’s a beguiling mix, and a stronger selection of stories than the opening volume, possibly because they rely less on what’s necessarily going to be a vague comic shorthand form of magic and more on personality. ![]() He revisits the idea in World of Witchcraft with trips to Paris, Hong Kong and Kyoto punctuated by two long conversations in New York. Taking his characters around the world is a charm Robinson’s successfully applied in other series, and one he’s already applied in opening volume Witches’ Road. ![]()
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