Comic Transcript
Panel 1
Mia (thought): I love all these old books!
Panel 2
Mia (thought): Grandpa always said you could find any answer in an old book. Where should I look? Rare stones? Antique jewelry? … magic?
Panel 3
Mia (thought): Magic?! I must be losing my mind.
Panel 4
Mia (thought): Then again…
Panel 5
Mia (thought): … I don’t know what else to call what he does.
Panel 6
Mia (thought): No. What he does is more than just an illusion. It seems so real. He doesn’t say any cheesy magic spells… he just does things.
Panel 7
Mia (thought): But magic isn’t real! Is it?
December 1, 2011 at 10:34 pm
Well, not everything can be explained by science.
December 4, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Sure it can. You just need to give science some time. Widespread use of Real Science is only about 150 years old, after all.
April 20, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Science is “The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural… ” blah blah blah. Basically, if it exsisted, science would try to break it down, analyze is, and reduce it to explainable terms. If magic was fully proven, within 5 years scientists would have made units of measurement of power, formulas to determine scale of effect, worked out the limitations of at least some of the spells, etc. For example: in DnD 3.5 fire magic can burn water elemental. Why? The scientist would find something better than “it’s magic”. Can it burn ice? Why doesn’t it set fire to mundane wood? Does it detect sentience?
Normal people run in a zombie apocalypse. A scientist captures one and tries to figure out why it doesn’t need it’s organs.
December 2, 2011 at 10:11 am
So…M was for Magic!
So…she’ll question Rhen’s magical abilities, but not her own mysterious transport to the strange and awesome steam punk world. Okay.
December 2, 2011 at 11:08 am
She’s not out of the library yet. 😉