Welcome to the Maynard by James Robinson, art by J. Bone. Dark Horse, 2025. 9781506744919. Contains #1 – 4 of the series.
Pip starts working as a bellhop at the Maynard, a fancy hotel for the magic community. It’s all secret and invisible to mortal eyes. This creates a problem with Pip’s girlfriend, who figures out Pip has been lying about working at a regular hotel. But Pip can’t give it up. And it’s not just the wizards, magical beings, and fabulous coworkers. Pip is secretly in-training with Sam, the hotel’s house detective, and they’re trying to catch a thief who has been stealing an incredibly odd array of items from the hotel (and then escaping in a marvlous, magical way, of course).
Pip is wonderful and easy to root for, but I loved the wizard Hamilton Cape as soon as he made his entrance. He’s more Liberace than not, and he has an amazing sense of style.
Robinson (Starman! Scarlet Witch) and J. Bone (Alison Dare, Mutant Texas) previously teamed up on Image Comics’ The Saviors, which I somehow missed. Check out the superhero illustrations on J. Bone’s Instagram and enjoy at the sense of nostalgia his inking creates.
