black magick 5

Eisner Award-wining writer Greg Rucka and artist Nicola Scott bring the first story arc in their ongoing gothic noir Image series, Black Magick, to a close in February.

Despite her best efforts to keep her work and private lives separate, Detective Rowan Black has found herself in the middle of a deadly occult investigation, and this one is personal. The arc concludes with a trial by divination.

“This issue concludes the first half of the first ‘act’—and it upends the table,” said Rucka. “We start to see more of what not only what Rowan can do, but what Alex is capable of, as well; but more crucially, we get the first real reveal of what it is they’re up against. And it isn’t pretty. Literally and figuratively.”

“Rowan, Alex, pretty much everyone, has way more to fear than they thought,” Scott added. “Something’s creeping through the cracks and the manipulation has just started.”

Black Magick #5 hits stores Wednesday, February 24th.