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Matt Wagner has announced that Mage: The Hero Denied<\/em>, the conclusion to his Mage<\/em> trilogy will be a 15 issue series coming from Image later this year. Wagner describes Mage<\/em> as…<\/p>\n … the archetypical Hero\u2019s Journey told as a modern, urban fantasy. Our unlikely protagonist, Kevin Matchstick, is a cynical everyman until he encounters a ragged and beguiling street wizard named Mirth who soon reveals that Kevin is heir to a heroic destiny that he had never imagined. Along the course of his adventures, Kevin gathers a posse of comrades who all aid in his struggle to defeat the dark magic of the villainous Umbra Sprite. At the end of the first volume, The Hero Discovered, Kevin accepts his role and finds himself the wielder of an ancient and mythical power. In the second volume of the Mage trilogy, The Hero Defined, Kevin finds himself paired with a whole new posse of companions, all reborn heroes based on the mythic cycles from a variety of cultures. As they track down and battle supernatural threats together, Kevin is pursued by a befuddled vagrant, Wally Ut, who claims to embody the next stage of Matchstick\u2019s mystical mentorship \u2014 his second Mage. Eventually, Kevin\u2019s own arrogance and stubbornness leads to devastating consequences that threaten to undermine his entire struggle against the forces of darkness. The new series, The Hero Denied, is the third and final part of the trilogy. The storyline takes up, as I said, about ten years after the conclusion of the previous series and finds Kevin at a very different place in both his personal life and his role as the reborn Pendragon. The Hero Denied #0 kicks things off in July and is a half-sized issue that features the third \u201cInterlude,\u201d a motif I\u2019ve traditionally used to bridge the gap between the various Books of the trilogy. It\u2019s a great jumping-on spot for new readers and an exciting fresh return to the world of MAGE for longtime fans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n