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Tarot has always fascinated comic book creators, from Alan Moore to Rachel Pollack to Mike Carey. But now, one of comicdom's most celebrated creators is putting the cards front and center as Jeff Lemire brings the mystery and mysticism of Minor Arcana to BOOM! Studios. And because Tarot's nothing without its imagery, Popverse is providing you, loyal querent, with a first look at the series.

Minor Arcana tells the exploits of Theresa, daughter of a small-town psychic and Tarot-reader, who must return to the village that raised her. Theresa's long believed her mother to have been a fraud but, upon returning, discovers that her magic was more than card tricks.

In a PR statement from publisher BOOM!, Minor Arcana was revealed to be a new ongoing series that  "Mirroring the suits of a tarot deck," with the story arcs that are "collected into The Book of Wands, The Book of Swords, The Book of Cups, and The Book of Pentacles respectively."

"Additionally," reads the statement, "each issue of Minor Arcana will feature a special tarot card variant
cover illustrated by Jeff Lemire culminating in a full tarot deck at the end of the series, starting with issue #1’s being The Fool!"

Check out a few interior pages of Minor Arcana #1 - plus variant covers by Lemire, Tula Lotay, Dustin Nguyen, David Mack, and Fernando Rosales - below. Minor Arcana shuffles onto comic shelves everywhere September 4, 2024.

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