This year IDW's Giant Halloween Hex is back, two years after the first issue and completing the trilogy of stories with Magica's family. But I hope it's not the last issue of this series we'll see, I like these kinds of seasonal specials.
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| "Magica De Spell" added to the logo |
New this year is that we have Magica's name as part of the cover title, and I think that is great! I can't think of many comics having Magica as the logo title, and I wish we had an issue dedicated to her in IDW's Showcase series while it lasted (the Gold Key series had one).
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| Showcase #30 from the Gold Key series |
Another difference from #1 published in 2016 is that we now only have one cover variant while the first one had three. But this change is fine too, I've never been a huge fan of cover variants unless there is something special like a convention exclusive or something like that.
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| All cover variants |
The main story in Giant Halloween Hex #2 is Gifts of the Gods!, and as I said it completes IDW's run of the (kind of) trilogy with Magica's family. The first story is The Great Rock of Power-Plus! in Giant Halloween Hex #1, Gifts of the Gods! is actually the second one created, while the third story is The Secret Santa Spell in published by IDW in last year's Christmas Parade. There are a lot of other stories with different versions of Granny De Spell and with Minima. And there exist another story with Rosolio too, but I look at the three mentioned above as a trilogy.
In Gifts of the Gods! we have the family tagging along with Magica's latest scheme to get the Number One Dime. And this time she tries to get it with the help of the "gifts of the gods".
But as usual things might not go exactly like planned, especially with the cursed family around…
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