Polygon.com / 28.01.25

The best comic book fantasy duo is back at it with Spurrier and Bergara's A Mischief of Magpies

Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara, the inimitable team behind Coda and Step by Bloody Step, are back with another fantasy comic aiming to really blast your eyeballs out of the back of your head. Courtesy of Dstlry, Polygon can reveal A Mischief of Magpies, a new series from Spurrier and Bergara inspired by classic portal fantasy, set on a floating city in an endless ocean. Mar has a secret, reads Dstlrys summary. Sometimes, without warning, he falls out of the world. This would be an inconvenience if his life wasnt already such a drag. When hes gone, he finds himself in an extraordinary city. A city which is also a machine, endlessly crossing a shoreless ocean. A city of two halves: the bright, bustling spires above the waves, and the beast-haunted twilight halls below. And between, clowning along the rusting beach, a troupe of anarchic magpies with all the answers but none of the questions. While two rather different projects, Coda and Step by Bloody Step came at fantasy worldbuildi...
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