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balu8 · 7 months

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CrossGen Chronicles #3: Meridian

by Barbara Kesel (W.); George Perez (P.); Mike Perkins (I.); Laura Martin (C.) and Troy Peteri/Dave Lanphear (L:)

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head-vampire · 1 year

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CrossGen Chronicles (2000)

Art by Esteban Maroto

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rantelisaliveandwell · 3 months

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Mystic #1

(July 2000)

Written by Ron Marz

Pencils by Brandon Peterson

Inks by John Dell

Colours by Andrew Crossley

Letters by Dave Lanphear

The first comic that CrossGen published was actually CrossGen Chronicles #1, written by head writers Ron Marz and Barbara Randall Kesel and illustrated by Claudio Castellini, which served as an introduction to the four monthly series they launched with. But I don't own CrossGen Chronicles #1, so we'll be skipping that and instead going right to the first issues of each series, which work just fine as introductions themselves.

So here we are at Mystic #1.

The creative team on this one were mostly relative veterans: Marz had had lengthy runs on Silver Surfer for Marvel and Green Lantern for DC, Peterson had worked on X-Men and various Image titles before being recruited as CrossGen's art director, and Dell had been the main inker on Grant Morrison and Howard Porter's blockbuster JLA run. Crossley was the only relative newby of the group.

This issue begins, as each of the first issues does, with a conversation between mysterious celestial beings (this is possibly explained more in the Chronicles that I don't have) as they lament the state of the universe, and plan to introduce an element of chaos into the order of things by granting powerful "sigils" to select individuals across the various worlds, but offering no guidance to those chosen few as to what has happened to them or what they should do.

(Note: I don't have a scanner or anything, so apart from covers, which are readily available online, any art that I post is just gonna be photos that I take on my phone.)

This particular story takes us to the world of Ciress, a place rife with magic and mysticism and governed by seven mages' guilds. Each guild is headed by a master, and when a master dies, their spirit is transferred into their successor, giving them the accumulated knowledge and experience of all the past masters (though the new one retains their own identity and personality; it's basically like the Avatar.)

Our protagonist is Giselle Villard, an upper-class party girl, whose studious older sister Genevieve is set to be invested as a guild master the following day (a rare achievement for one so young.)

Giselle is attending a society party, where she expresses her contempt for magic and those who practice it. Of course, her sister turns out to be standing right behind her as she says this. Genevieve drags Giselle outside, castigates her for her irresponsible ways and unserious attitude, and coldly reminds her of the importance of the next day's ceremony. No longer in a party mood, Giselle goes home for the night, on the way spontaneously adopting a stray squit (apparently this world's equivalent to dogs) who will almost certainly later turn out to be more than he seems.

Interestingly, despite the ubiquity of magic, our glimpse of the city street here seems remarkably like that of contemporary America, with brownstones, fire hydrants, and taxi cabs. I'll be interested to see how this aesthetic develops going forward.

The next day, Giselle meets with Genevieve at the guild cathedral, and the two sisters patch things up ahead of Genevieve's investiture ceremony. However, during the ceremony (attended by the heads of all seven guilds), things go awry. Giselle, seated in the audience, encounters a mysterious man who shakes her hand before disappearing, imprinting her palm with a mysterious mark. Sensing that things are amiss, Giselle attempts to flee the Cathedral... but the spiritual transfer ceremony is interrupted, and the spirits of ALL SEVEN guild heads abandon their hosts and enter Giselle instead!

She collapses into a fountain, and the final panel shows her palm, now marked with the glowing Sigil (the yin-yang-like design that serves as the company logo.)

And there we have it! Sort of a mixed bag, as first issues go. A lot of the dialogue is infodumps, and the structure isn't particularly elegant - the whole issue is essentially just two scenes, the party and then the ceremony, with not much in the way of action until things go sideways in the last few pages. But the art is a lot of fun, and the world they've set up certainly is intriguing. None of the characters have really had any opportunity to establish themselves as anything more than broad archetypes yet ("sensible sister and irresponsible sister!") Still, I had a pretty good time with it. We'll see if things pick up next issue. But first: Sigil #1!

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cryptocollectibles · 5 years

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CrossGen Chronicles #1 Signed by Ron Marz and Andrew Crossley (June 2000) by CrossGen Comics

The First, god-like characters whose superiority is suddenly threatened by the appearance of mortals graced with mysterious symbols of power. Written by Barbara Randall Kesel and Ron Marz, drawn by Claudio Castellini, Andrew Crossley, and Caesar Rodriguez.

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thebristolboard · 9 years

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