Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy this as much as I hoped to. It had a really cool concept but didn’t manage to meet my expectations. I liked the graphics, which made for a quick read. The facial expressions were well-drawn, which made me like it more and it easier to read the book faster.

I liked the characters. I liked the approach that they went in with the book. You have your seemingly standard magic boarding school and then it turns out to have that trope be flipped. That part of the story I did enjoy. Something I always really like seeing is when the panels in graphic novels seem like they’re moving. I’ve had instances where the characters looked wooden. Their expressions were still and the panels don’t flow into each other nicely. Luckily this wasn’t the case with The Black Mage. Even though I wasn’t the biggest fan, at least I liked reading it.