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We tend to associate the world of magical fantasy, spells and demons with a much darker setting, and even in those books where there are academies training aspiring young wizards. Comic artist Nicolas Sauge with writers Josselin Azorin-Lara and Sylvain Dos Santos take a different approach in Golam , setting their adventure of young magicians in training in a brighter and more colourful Arabian Nights setting, where the worlds of magic, spells and demons is actually just as much at home. Before we get to the training programme for aspiring alchemists, the first few pages of Golam -Volume 1: The Son of the Moon introduce us to the nature of those powers, how they are used and how one enterprising young tearaway somehow gets mistaken for a wizard and ends up on what looks to be a dangerous and challenging programme. We are in Aassima in the world of Naitoo, and a tournament between two alchemists shows how skilled individuals can call on and control the arcanic energy that flows around ...