Black Magick, Issue #5 begins with Morgan and Rowan, the two main police officers, having dinner at Morgan's house with Morgan's wife, Anna, who is pregnant. Rowan Black is the main character, and she's a witch as well as a police officer. After dinner, she attends her fellow witch, Alex, who in issue #4 came across a dark spirit. Meanwhile, another group of investigators whose motives are unknown are investigating Portsmouth and Rowan Black. I bought Cover B with art by Stephanie Hans, which really caught my eye. As I mentioned in my review of issue #4, the artwork of Nicola Scott is really on point, with scant colors by Chiara Arena. Scott did the pencils for the iconic "gay Green Lantern kiss" in Earth-2, pictured below, right. Most of all, I liked the greenery surrounding the suburban houses. Although the title is 95% black-and-white/gray-scale, I still got a feeling for the varied suburban landscape you'll see in middle-class homes. The lettering is done by Jodi Wynne, and there are several styles in Black Magick. Black-on-white lettering is used in everyday conversation, white-on-black is used for human spells, orange-on-black is used for spells by the unknown creature, and orange-on-white is used when that creature speaks in its home plane of existence.
"Now she just needs to be pushed," is the final line, which also adorns the back cover. The first five issues of Black Magick have perfectly set up the conflict between... it's too early to say "good and evil." Human and demon? The beings in issues #4 and #5 sure go out of their way to look evil, demonic. I refer to the main "demon" as an unknown creature earlier in this review because she really is unknown.If you're not reading Black Magick yet, try the paperback coming out in April, Black Magick, Volume 1: Awakening. Then you can start the series month-by-month (as it is meant to be read) starting in July.
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