Magik #8

History

The Magik ongoing series launched on January 8, 2025, written by Ashley Allen — who had previously piloted the character in the one-shot X-Men: Blood Hunt – Magik — with series artist Germán Peralta. Issue #8, released August 13, 2025, opens the back half of the ten-issue run and marks Matt Horak's debut on the title as fill-in penciller, replacing Peralta for this installment while the creative team prepared the arc's concluding chapters. The series was edited by Darren Shan under executive editor Tom Brevoort and editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski, and was ultimately collected in two trade paperback volumes.

Trivia · 8 facts

• Released August 13, 2025 (cover-dated October 2025); issue #8 of a completed 10-issue ongoing series — the first solo ongoing series ever published for Illyana Rasputina / Magik.
• Written by Ashley Allen; interior art by Matt Horak (fill-in, replacing series regular Germán Peralta); colors by Arthur Hesli; letters by VC's Ariana Maher; cover art by Pablo Villalobos.
• The issue is the third chapter of the second story arc, 'Shadows of Resistance,' later collected in the trade paperback Magik Vol. 2: Shadows of Resistance (collecting issues #6–10).
• Plot centers on Magik (Illyana Rasputina) and Mirage (Dani Moonstar) traveling to Las Vegas on a mission assigned by the Embodiment — the leader of the mysterious Society of the Eternal Dawn — to retrieve a magical artifact called the Quill, which is being exploited by a local criminal organization.
• Liminal, the series' primary antagonist who has possessed the body of Cal Isaacs, accompanies Magik and Mirage on the mission, creating a three-way dynamic of mutual distrust.
• The issue introduces the Scarlet Eye as an adversary faction — revealed within the issue to be defectors from the Society of the Eternal Dawn itself, deepening the series' theme of institutional corruption.
• A sustained interpersonal conflict between Magik and Mirage — rooted in disagreements about leadership and trust simmering since earlier issues — reaches a turning point and is partially reconciled during the Las Vegas mission.
• Variant covers for the issue include a 1:25 incentive variant by Russell Dauterman and a 1:100 J. Scott Campbell 'Just Spectacular Collection' virgin variant, as well as covers by Gerald Parel and Campbell's standard edition.

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