The Books of Magic

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Fish out of Water: Happens to several people when they cross over into other worlds, but it's clearest with Iolanthe, who doesn't know much about how mortals operate when she decides to stay on Earth. In Book 1: The Invisible Labyrinth, Tim takes a trip into the magical past with the Phantom Stranger and learns the history of magic(at least how it relates to the Vertigo universe) . Rieber, John Ney( w)."The Importance of Being Evil" The Books of Faerie: Molly's Story,no.4(December 1999).DC Comics. Magically-Binding Contract: The focal point of nearly every other plot point, particularly in Faerie. Though this could also be interpreted as "Sir Timothy" always being a homeless bum, and Barbatos' plots are intended to make the possible future they are in a definite future.

Arc Symbol: Books. Books in this series are always a symbol of power and nearly always a source of magic. Most of Tim's lessons come from books. Changeling Fantasy: Tim is apparently the illegitimate son of Queen Titania and her human falconer Tamlin , raised by mortal parents. At least at first. Then Auberon says that Tim has no faerie blood and it seems he's the illegitimate son of Tamlin and Mary Hunter, and the changeling son of Titania and Tamlin is his half-brother whose fate is unknown. But it's never completely certain. A third possibility raised is that Mary Hunter was a faerie nursemaid under a glamour who smuggled Tim out of Faerie at Titania's request to hide the fact that Her Majesty was a human sorceress under a glamour and the baby, having been fathered by Tamlin, was fully human. So the only thing really certain is that Tamlin is Tim's biological father and William Hunter isn't. Broad Strokes: How the series seem to link to the original Gaiman-penned miniseries. It definitely still happened, as the events are briefly summarized in the first issue... and yet Tim does not recognize Rose when she shows up as his new school teacher, and Yo-Yo the owl is treated as if he was introduced for the first time here. This might have something to do with the reboots the DC Universe have gone through since the original miniseries, or there might be something else going on. Since the old ongoing series delved pretty hard into alternate timelines, it's possible we're just seeing another one of them.Everyone and everything he meets wants to use Tim for their own purposes or kill him (except, obviously, Death herself), including demons, fairies, and angels. Tim's friends and family are targeted by supernatural forces beyond imagining in attempts to get Tim to agree to a Magically-Binding Contract to own his soul and power. And everything gets really, really weird. Long before J.K. Rowling ever wrote about Harry Potter, there was another owl-toting, bespectacled young wizard with a destiny. Following the 2011 companywide DC reboot, Tim Hunter appeared in the non-Vertigo Justice League Dark title. His appearance in the mainstream DCU seems to only take into account the events of the original Books of Magic miniseries.

Friendly Enemy: Tala, the Queen of Evil (from The Phantom Stranger) is portrayed as this to Zatanna. There were also three spin-off mini-series set in the Faerie realm, entitled The Books of Faerie. The first two volumes dealt with the rise to power of Titania and Auberon respectively, whilst the third documents the misadventures of Molly O'Reilly as she tried to come to terms with the curse placed upon her by Titania during the Girl in the Box storyline. There were also plans to create an ongoing The Books of Faerie series starring Molly O'Reilly, but these were eventually abandoned. The Books of Magic is the title of a four-issue English-language comic book mini-series written by Neil Gaiman, published by DC Comics, and later an ongoing series under the imprint Vertigo. Since its original publication, the mini-series has also been published in a single-volume collection under the Vertigo imprint with an introduction by author Roger Zelazny. It tells the story of a young boy who has the potential to become the world's greatest magician. [1] Miniseries [ edit ] Waiting for him is Leah, who trapped him in the box in the hope of teaching him an important lesson about his magic. But the lesson hasn't been learned in the way that she hoped, because of Tim's focus on the small scale: it wasn't the destruction of the forest that prompted him to reconnect with his magic, but the threat to the single tree. Exasperatingly, Leah cannot even decide if Tim is wholly wrong in thinking that way. Instead, she leaves Tim with the important reminder that he might try to throw away his magic, but he will never wholly succeed: it is a part of him, and always will be. [24] Peter Gross [ edit ]Laser-Guided Amnesia: In Life During Wartime, Tim has imposed this on himself in his created world. It doesn't last.