Midnight Pals: Magic (Patreon)

HP Lovecraft: everyone, this is harry Houdini the famous magicianHarry Houdini: heyStephen King: you know harry Houdini?Lovecraft: oh yeah we've been looking for a project to work on together for a whileKing:Lovecraft: we already established he's not really italian

King: so you must really believe in magic, huh?Houdini: nope!King: nope?Houdini: it's all flim-flammery!King: flim flimmery?!Houdini: and tomfoolery!King: well i knew it was flim flammeryKing: but to think it's tomfoolery too--!

Alan Moore [appears in a clap of thunder]: what fool dares to doubt the existence of magic?King: the arch magus!Lovecraft: the arch magus!Poe: the arch magus!Barker: the arch magus!Koontz: the arch magus!

Houdini: i am that foolHoudini: fie on your so-called magic!Houdini: why, it's nothing but a lot of humbug and ballyhoo!Houdini: i believe, my good sir, in facts and logicHoudini: by my calculations, magic is a flapdoodle of a fraud!

Moore: MAGIC NOT REAL?!Moore: A FLAPDOODLE!Moore: A FRAUUUUUD!?!?!?!??!!?King: uh, harryKing: you might want to speak a little more uhKing: respectfullyKing: to the arch magusHoudini: balderdash! hogtits!Moore: HARRY HOUDINIMoore: DO NOT TAKE ME FOR SOME CONJURER OF CHEAP TRICKS

Moore: [sky darkens, thunder sounds] now observe the awesome powers of the magus… unleashed!Moore: ok check it so please note that these 3 rings are NOT connected

Houdini: bring your best magicians! i'll defeat them all with the power of facts and logic!Aleister Crowley: i got this broCrowley: I'M THE GREAT BEAST!!!Crowley: DO WHAT THOU WIIILT!!

Crowley: ok first you need a giant hat shaped like a pyramidHoudini: really? this is the best you gotCrowley: wait wait i'm not doneCrowley: then you need to draw a big ol' eye on itHoudini: NEXT

Grant Morrison: see, magic is about collecting all 8 chaos emeralds-Houdini: NEXTCharles Williams: it's about following the dictates of god's holy Anglican church-Houdini: NEXTEve Harms: wait wait wait check this outHarms: just wait til you see what i can do to these base metalsHoudini: NEXT

Houdini: i look around and all i seeHoudini: are charlatans and fraudsHoudini: OH YEAHHoudini: is there no one here with the strength to defeat me in the arena of knowledge?Arthur Conan Doyle: NOT SO FAST!

Charles Dickens: prepare for trouble!Doyle: make it double!Dickens: we areDoyle & Dickens: [standing arms folded, back to back] GHOST CLUBDoyle: blasting off at the speed of light!Dickens: surrender now or prepare to fight!Robert Aikman: Meowth! That's right!

Dickens: we're a team of paranormal experts dedicated to investigating the uninvestigatibleDickens: determining the indeterminableDickens: and canning the uncannyDoyle: and also fairiesDickens: no no noDoyle: yes we look for fairies tooDickens: no Arthur we talked about this, we're not doing fairies

Doyle: ok harry i know you think magic is all "fake" and "lies"Doyle: but if that's the case explain The Lost World (1925)Houdini: what theHoudini: are those REAL dinosaurs?!?!Doyle: mmmmaybe