From Jack Holt:<\/p>\n
I hope magic still has some tricks up its sleeve, some quirks that keep the good Doctor on his toes.<\/p>\n
I like the idea of Doc using a system of magic, but somehow I hate the idea of magic itself being limited. Fairy queens, will o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wisps, and the music of the spheres all have their place to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
As far as I’m concerned, there are at least as many systems of magic as there are, say, branches of science. Over time, Doctor Fate will develop a system for his own use, but that in no way precludes the existence of others — or of magical personages and phenomena like the ones you mention.<\/p>\n
Actually, it doesn’t even “limit” Fate’s magic. As with any sorcerer (or scientist), his limitations will be demarcated by the extent of his knowledge and skill.<\/p>\n
What I want to avoid with Doctor Fate is the trap that ensnares so many supernaturally-based characters in comics: the ability to cast an appropriate spell for any occasion at the writer’s convenience. Just as Superman can’t suddenly gain the power to read minds or turn invisible to suit the needs of a story, Doctor Fate won’t have a spell on hand for every kind of peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Jack Holt: I hope magic still has some tricks up its sleeve, some quirks that keep the good Doctor on his toes. I like the idea of Doc using a system of magic, but somehow I hate the idea of magic itself being limited. Fairy queens, will o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wisps, and the music of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}