It’s a good time to be a witch. I don’t mean literally, though based on my formative years
in Salem, Massachusetts there are some places where it’s always good to be a
witch. I’m speaking more in broad
pop cultural terms, as I almost always am. This year marks the 20 year anniversary of The Craft, a hit mid-‘90s teen
witchcraft horror flick that’s being lavishly re-released, Scarlet Witch is
finally finding her footing as a major Avenger, and this month marks the
release of the hotly anticipated Witch.
Given all that, I thought I’d take
a look at Witches in comic books.
Even though superhero books have always lived on combining disparate
genres into a whole that’s greater than the sum of their parts there aren’t
very many witches in comics but today we’re about to get the full spectrum on
all of them.
