Comics Nexus Flashback 01/08/2005: SPELLBINDERS interview with MIKE CAREY

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Leave Your Spandex @t the Door: SPELLBINDERS interview with MIKE CAREY

Welcome to the 45th edition of Leave Your Spandex @t the Door!

Happy New Year to everyone! This is the first column of 2005, and there’s no other guy I would rather have as my guest to bring good luck for the rest of the year, than Mike Carey! Mike and I sat down to discuss his new project with Marvel Comics, SPELLBINDERS which is going to be released in March as part of the company’s new MARVEL NEXT line. The solicitation for the first issue reads:

Getting through high school is hard enough without having to watch your back the whole time: but magic can give you a real edge over the competition. When fifteen-year-old Kim Vesco moves from Chicago to Salem, Massachusetts, and enrols at John Hathorne High School, she finds that the student body is divided into rival factions of witches and non-witches, with both sides bidding for her allegiance. Kim never believed in witches before, and she certainly doesn’t have any magical powers that she knows of, but someone thinks she does – and that someone is determined to kill her before she uses them. Between the tribal loyalties of the schoolyard and the brutal, fight-or-die logic of the mage-war, Kim has to steer a course that will keep her alive until she can take the fight back to her enemy and reveal the true identity of someone she thought she already knew: herself.

Manolis: Hello Mike! What is the premise of “SPELLBINDERS”?

Mike Carey: Basically, it’s an all-ages book which follows a group of teen-aged protagonists in a setting where magic is an accepted part of everyday life. It’s the real world, up to a point, but this is Salem, Massachusetts…

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