Quicken Forbidden was a
comicbook title published by Cryptic Press, and created by writer
Dave Roman and artist John Green. It was first published in 1997, and the first five issues were later collected into a
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; the series concluded with issue 13, published in 2005.
AiT/Planet Lar
AiT/Planet Lar is an American comic book publishing company based in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1999 by Larry Young and Mimi Rosenheim. The company focuses on releasing original graphic novels into the mass market, although the ...
collected the first ten issues in two trade paperbacks, ''Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Borrowed Magic'' and ''Jax Epoch and the Quicken Forbidden: Separation Anxiety''.
The plot revolves around
Jax Epoch, a normal modern-day high school student from
New York
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. Through a series of accidents and moments of poor judgement, she ends up accused of bringing items from a number of fantasy realms into the real world, and thus causing the fantasy realms and the real world to leak into one another, causing havoc and destruction for all realms involved. Most importantly, she is accused of releasing a creature called the Quicken, which must now be captured and contained.
1997 comics debuts
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