MAGIC February issue has four tricks by John Bannon in his Dear Mr. Fantasy style. I picked it up on the swish new iPad app that Magic have, and it was pretty cheap! Here’s what John says on his website...

“A change in pace for MAGIC, there is no “story.” Instead, there are four previously unpublished tricks (3 card + 1 mental coin tricks) written in the narrative form I used in Dear Mister Fantasy: Chronic—a very unusual and iconoclastic “clock” trick. This one breaks all the rules. Buf’d—a transposition with a re-transposition. Did it reverse, backfire or ricochet? Easy to do. Origami Poker Revisited—you gotta’ know how to fold ‘em. A surprise Royal Flush with a twist. Completely—no, totally—self-working. Ion Man—no negativity here, but a practical streamlined handling for Max Maven’s “Positive Negative” plot. Imaginarily choose any coin and flip it. We knew it all along. Twelve magic-packed pages and a sidebar by my buddy Raj Madhok. Go ‘All In.’”

All the tricks are awesome, but Buf'd is, as they say, 'worth the price of the book!'

Anyone else checked this out?

Liam.

I don't have a subscription, but I *have* to get this issue. When I read that four Bannon tricks were going to be in the February Magic, I added an issue of Magic to my next order from Magic Warehouse...but I didn't pay attention to the month I was getting, so I ended up with the January issue. I'll have to make some excuse to buy something else soon, so I can tack the February issue on.

I'm a card carrying Bannon fan, so it was a no-brainer, but you really owe it to yourself to pick this issue up, the clock trick is very cheeky thinking, and uses non of the usual ploys, and includes an un-published Simon Aronson move that I'm sure will see the light of day in lots of ways. The transposition is amazing, so economical and discrepant yet you get a lot of magic with very little effort.

Origami Poker is an extension of John's work on the Dudeney fold but as he says self-working and super fooling. Lastly we have his take on Positive Negative, almost similar to Dave Forrest's version but it takes a trade mark Bannon swerve at last minute to come up with a method that will make you smile!