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This article contains spoilers forStrange Academy#2 .
It ’s official : Marvel Comics ' school for black art make believe Hogwarts look absolutely halting . Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos have launchedStrange Academy , a school for sorcerer that ’s understandably beingcompared to Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry . Eventhe spells being introducedin the comics are like .
The serial has introducedthe next propagation of sorcerers , who have just begun their first twelvemonth of study at Strange Academy . They include mystics from throughout the Nine Realms , as well as one new crone from the Hell Dimension of Limbo , plus the young Word ofthe Dread Dormammu . The family are frankly far more interesting than Harry Potter , Ron , and Hermione .
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foreign Academy#2 tells the story of the first day of schoolhouse , and it includes descriptions of the classes - as well as brief looks at them . History of Magical Objects is taught by the Ancient One himself , one of the outstanding necromancer of all time , and he ascertain all the Thomas Kyd are intimate with all 423 major sorcerous object from this and the 27 closest dimension . To prove the potential of these aim , he unleashesMarvel ’s version ofAladdin ’s Genie , who is far more terrifying than anything in a Disney film .
TheScarlet Witchteaches Elements of Chaos Magic , a form of sorcery that manipulates reality itself ; so wild and irregular Doctor Strange turn down to believe it existed until he was faced by it in battle . In a wonderfully meta touch , Brother Voodoo instruct Introduction to the Undead , with the wonderful puzzler " the only matter that ’s certain is taxis . " This is certainly lawful in comics , where death is a revolving door and resurrections are commonplace . The Man - Thing runs a course of instruction on Magical Plants and the Care Thereof , essentially Strange Academy ’s version of Herbology , and as a part - plant life fauna he ’s the perfect teacher .
Some of the class are high - risk , with Sister Sara of the Holy Sepulcher consort a class on World and Heavenly History that seems to regard travel back in clock time to witness the events being studied - a far war cry from Harry Potter ’s deadening History of Magic lessons . And do n’t arrive late to Magik ’s Inferno 101 class , which teaches you all about the Hell Dimension ; inStrange Academy#2 Magik transports two of the class to Limbo to test their selection attainment first script . The course spell out a lot of information on how magic work in the Marvel Universe ; the most interesting detail is that a strong astral form require a strong soundbox . This add together young depth to the idea of astral protrusion , and fit well withDoctor Strangein the MCU , which featured an astral plane battle that took place at a time foreign was bruise . It ’s a nice touch , and it suggestsStrange Academycould serve a crucial purpose in found the rule of magic in the Marvel Universe .
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