Today:
THE STOLID KEVIN BLACKMON – 37 – THE MAN FIGHTS TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE
The Magician is back and still fighting the good fight against Uneb who showed up in the Hyperion universe to take her revenge on Alia. With Alia, and Ivan and Clay, existences away, Kevin leads the forces of the universe against the enemy that seems to have a never-ending store of energy.
THE DESCENDANT – THE SECOND UNREST – 6 – UNE ADVANCES
Une sleeps as her consciousness continues her quest for revenge in the Hyperion universe and the Fonlands. As she sleeps, two existences scramble to resist her, but Une will show them the folly in that.
THE ARCANE WIZARD’S LOG 2120 – 15 – THE BATTLE COMMENCES
Issac had been doing a good job of keeping Uneb contained in his spacetime loop, but nothing lasts for ever. Even the Arcane Wizard can slip up and Uneb seizes the advantage. And when he needs back up, the Luminaries and the Vodun, Jo, arrive to resist the enemy.
THE DIVINE ESSENCE – THE SECOND UNREST – 38 – COUNTDOWN
Pultine slowly regains her strength in the Une-verse. Alia and the Queen Rowen do what they can to heal her, but there are many dangers lurking in enemy territority. The Queen Rowen tells of a mysterious spacecraft and Alia tries to free the Superguardian from his catatonic state.
The summer is rapidly approaching and with it, the 2026 Annual Issue. Look out for that on PRL Day, June 16, 2026. It’s so much closer than I realized and we are excited to show you what we’ve been working on. Of course you can check out previous Annual Issues for an idea of what to expect if you have no idea.
We are well into the 2026 Crossover Event, The Second Unrest, with this act ii and things are very interesting. It is a vast battle across many existences, but with three primary fronts:
- The Fonlands where Jo, Gu, and Agbe organize to resist the half of Une known as Unea, and Sakpata and his team in the Smiting Chamber track Une across the multiversal structure;
- the Hyperion universe where Kevin and the forces of that universe resist the half of Une known as Uneb;
- and the Une-verse where Une resides and where the Vodun Agê, Fâ, and Xêvioso lead a force of beings from the multiverse to attack Une directly.
Issac Washington, the Master of Multiversal Arcana and the Arcane Wizard, is back this month as he continues to use his magic to prevent Une from landing on the Fonlands. He, like Kevin Blackmon in the Hyperion universe, greeted a half of Une as it arrived inside of his existence, and they have both surprised Une in their ability to resist her. Issac and Kevin are like two versions of the same thing, Issac the Wizard and Kevin the Magician, but while Isaac’s skills as a wizard allow him to warp space and time sufficient to fool and trap Unea in a loop, Kevin’s abilities are more tactile and allow him to produce anything from his imagination to challenge Uneb. Kevin has undergone extensive training since we last saw him back in Volume VI that has greatly expanded his imagination over the years; early in his career as a hero with a preternatural ability he deployed armored suits with jet packs, and now he creates the legions of dummy soldiers and impossibly large constructs to face Uneb. Issac and Kevin are both magical, but the source of their magic is different. Kevin’s ability comes from a device, the Dark Matter Manipulator, that was created on the distant planet Druont. Isaac’s ability comes from extensive study of the wonders and mysteries of existence that set him on a path to becoming the embodiment of the magic of the universe, a title known as the Master of Universal Arcana.
The parallels between Kevin and Issac are interesting and I should note that Issac was inspired by a desire to have a Kevin-type character who wielded magic from arcane sources that mirror Dr. Strange of Marvel comics. I like magic and when I first conceived of Kevin as a character, I wanted him to be a magician with powers that had a complicated origin explained by science because I wanted to tell a science fiction story, and Issac was inspired by a desire to create a fantasy story inspired by myths and legends of the African continent.
Kevin debuted all the way back in Volume I, in the very first issue of the PRL Serials and his story ran through Volume VI, though he was largely in the background of Volumes IV and V. Issac Washington debuted in Volume VII of the Halloween Special and his story continued in subsequent Halloween Specials until he traveled with Wazad the Wonderful to the Fonlands in the Interim Short: The Deft Hands of Zacchaeus – 10 – Brad Jordan. Since then, Issac has teamed with the Vodun and the dwellers of the Fonlands to save existence from Une.
Now Issac and Kevin are the vanguard against the two halves of Une and their powers will be put to the ultimate test.
This issue features another re-run from Âmuk, the serial starring Maxx the Superguardian. Definitely check out Maxx’s journey if you’re curious about the plot that led to this issue. Other things to check out if you want more of the backstory that led our characters to the present:
- Multiversal Family Tree Anthology – Features issues of many different PRL Serials and includes issues starring Owuo, the Abosom of Evil, the Mmoatia, the Witches of the Death Witch Coven, Alia, and so many more!
- Death Witch Coven – Find out how the fearsome wielders of Death Magic who were banished from the Disc of their birth became allies in the fight against Une.
- Heated – Owuo is pure evil, and for a long time many considered him to be the Vodun of Death, or that’s how he saw it. This 2024 Crossover Event chronicles Owuo’s existence from the start, to the present when Yana, the Queen of the Caves, discovered a threat to the multiversal structure through the Smiting Chamber.
- Deathgrowth / Talj Rip – The Vodun use the game of Smiting to save the Talj Universe from Une.
We hope that you enjoy the issue we will see you all again soon!
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