After the loss of Caleb and the realization never to see Elyon back again, Cornelia falls into a depression. She secludes herself and doesn't attend school anymore. The others can't manage to comfort her and the group falls apart. Even offering a cat doesn't cheer her up. Her sister Lilian adopts the animal and names it Napoleon.
At home Susan tells Will they will remove in June.
Taranee doesn't just have words with her mother about Nigel, she also discovers she is stalked by someone who proves his existence by leaving the message "I know who you are" behind.
In her stupidity Irma transforms herself into a twen, showing herself off between the hunks and the pimple heads. When she tries to transform herself back she discovers her powers have diminished. This also counts for the rest. As Hay Lin makes herself invisible she doesn't manage to return to her old state. And Taranee discovers her telepathic powers are almost gone.
When Peter becomes hostage of Taranee's stalker it is Frost who follows her. With all their might the girls defeat him and bring him to Kandrakar. Over there Hay Lin's grandma makes her visible again. But she has a serious message. Because all of this mischief in the group the oracle has become angry and she as well!

There is sadness everywhere. The only nice detail in this story is that the irritating sister Lilian has found herself a little friend.
Further on there's a good horror element in the stalking of Taranee, and the failing powers of the girls.

In picture 13.23.2 Taranee discovers a Polaroidcamera of hers has disappeared. But comparing the chest with picture 13.25.2 you see something more has happened!
Picture 13.58.4: Irma's wearing a purple top!

14: The end of a dream

To prevent Will's removal she and Irma, Hay Lin and Taranee go to Simultech. Making use of the inattention of Susan's secretary Amanda they get into action.
The same time Luba is playing the wizard's pupil. As the four Guards gather their powers, she reaches her goal. But the result is more serious as expected.
A transformer has been unleashed; a very dangerous creature, capable to transform into any person at free will. Possessing the powers of energy, fire, water and air it only has to find the power of earth: Cornelia. Just before the others are aware of it, the transformer manages to reach Cornelia at first and takes possession of Cornelia's body. The oracle fears the worst by now, and Napoleon is the only one to know something is terribly wrong with Cornelia.

Finally! For thirteen issues the oracle floats through the fortress of Kandrakar in a relaxed mood, now he has turned into a stressed old man. The situation is really serious by now. The guards have lost their powers except for Cornelia. The transformer has changed her character and has immense powers! The only good thing left is that Will does not remove, and the detectives Medina and McTiennan (who found themselves in an x-files position) finish their investigation.
And it's fun to see the transformer in the shape of Irma creeping along the wall like Spiderman.

In picture 14.14.3 the barrier has lost its colours!

Witch-fan Danique Plaatzer told me Maria Medina lost her ear-drop in picture 14.46.4. Looking further I discovered Medina wore no ear-drops at all in her earlier meeting with Irma! That makes a double error.

Another thing: Cornelia's bed! Compare picture 14.39.2 with those in part seven in the Meridian chronicles. The differences are clearly to be seen. And that's not all of it.

Pictures 7.58.4 and 14.49.4: in episode seven Cornelia's wardrobe had one door-knob with a yellow tassel, yet it has two door-knobs with red tassels.

One who observes the pages from 14.7 to 14.10 and page 14.20 more closely will discover the drops change from rotating clockwise into rotating anti-clockwise and vice-versa.

There's something about the face on Irma's blouse. We already see it (partially) in picture 14.3.1. But it is missing in pictures 14.4.2 and 14.14.4. And when she is wearing her jacket it goes wrong too. Her blouse is cut out deep, so there should be seen a little of it. But on the pages from 11 to 14 you see it too high in the opening of her jacket, and in some other pictures not at all!

On the pages from 12 to 15 something is wrong as well: the glasses. The number of them changes sometimes and when Irma, Will and Hay Lin have gone, Taranee is left alone with six glasses!

15: The courage to choose

The white loose hanging dress wearing guys of Kandrakar are being at loggerheads about the girls, especially about Cornelia. Irma is sick and tired about Cornelia and leaves the group. Only Hay Lin and Taranee go out trying to restore the broken friendship.
The congregation sends Luba to earth to prevent Cornelia's attempt to resurrect Caleb. But both their utter pigheadedness nearly results in a disaster. Before the eyes of Taranee Luba takes Cornelia and Caleb with her to imprison them at Kandrakar.
The other four girls gather again (Martin is the right person to make Irma forget her anger!) and leave for Kandrakar, where Luba still runs amuck around the place.
When Cornelia and Caleb appear and Caleb gives back Cornelia the powers she invested into him, Luba looses her self-control and betrays Kandrakar by leaving.
The next day everything is over, and on the Sheffield Institute the girls discover they have passed for the next class. Holidays are beginning!

This is a quite profound story. Cornelia yearns to revive Caleb, Luba wants the right on her side at any cost and the four other girls try to find out how to regain their powers. The changes in the scenes are good, and still you can follow the story. The drawings are something else. They vary from being good to horrible. The long waved hair makes Cornelia to a complete different girl, and it suits her.

Images 15.23.3, 15.23.5, 15.45.5: In a short time Wills shirt undergoes some changes. First there is a yellow stripe running under the star, then it runs ove r the star, and from picture 15.24.5 it has disappeared for good.

When Luba takes Cornelia and Caleb with her to Kandrakar, Cornelia's wings have disappeared.

Pictures 15.56.3 and 15.56.7: the girls arrive from Kandrakar back on their departure time: a quarter past nine. When they clean up the mess, the clock suddenly reads a quarter to ten, and it has changed in design! By the way, why should they move it? It was properly standing on the chimney!

The different artists don't make it easy for us by drawing the garden plaza in a different way, and we can't do anything about that. But it would be a lot easier for us if the building remains the same in one episode.

In picture 15.43.1 you see Caleb is missing his spot at his right cheek.

The mystery of Irma continues. We see her suddenly wearing a necklace in picture 15.6.2 which was not present in the previous episode. In picture 15.19.5 her jacket is completely closed. And if you watch carefully you see here and there a part of the print of her blouse.

Some other strange thing is that Irma, Hay Lin and Taranee suddenly carry their school stuff with them, which was not there in the previous issue. Moreover Taranee has changed her skirt with zebra motif and blue pants for a sleeveless orange shirt and a dark red pants. And that's not all of it.
In the previous issue she wore nothing around her wrists, but now she wears a bracelet on either the left or the right one. Sometimes she even wears a bracelet on both her wrists and then nothing again! Another detail: After picture 15.18.5 we never see her book back again.

In picture 15.40.5 you see Cornelia has lost her body and legs. Though she has a firm amount of hair which reaches below her bottom when she is transformed, there is no excuse for that.

The story

16: Nerissa's seal

Our five go out on vacation in the summer-cottage of the Lair family for a one week stay with Anna and Christopher. When Will awakes on the beach from a nightmare she discovers a strange sign on her hand.
To get this clarified the girls go to Kandrakar. Yan Lin tells the history of Nerissa and the other Guardians she joined. Her conclusion is that Nerissa wants to get the heart of Kandrakar into her possession.
Meanwhile Nerissa decides to take revenge, and therefore she transforms a dog into the person of Khor, who gets the task to kill Hay Lin at first. Hay Lin receives a premonition of that in a nightmare. When Khor manages to capture Hay Lin in a second effort the others go into action and release Hay Lin.

For economical reasons the editors decided to stop adding page numbers. Doing so the collection comics won't become too expensive. This means the picture-notation code becomes universal.

The story doesn't start very nice to Irma. When she tells there is only one folding bed, Cornelia claims it at once because of her allergy to sleeping bags. The next scene has its effects to the nerves of the Lair family. It even takes Leafy its attention!

That Nerissa is a strange character! For centuries she lies rotting in her stone coffin, and as soon she wakes up she asks for vengeance instead of visiting a dermal specialist.

Khor is the living proof of the threat of Nerissa, but that she can fail as well. During his transformation she kept improving his mind aside. Now it is a purple Hulk with a dog's brain.

Do you remember? Matt invited Will for a dinner in Lodelyday. But the bungler left his wallet home. That's how you get the laughs against you!

And now for the mistakes. In picture 16.3.4 Irma lost the chain she wore in picture 16.3.2.

On the menu card we read the name of Lodelyday as we know it. But when Matt and Will passed the menu standard just before, the name was spelled as 'Lodelydey'. Quite puzzling. Another detail is that the clothing of the waiter in picture 16.10.5 has changed in picture 16.11.1.

Will has a watertight watch, which strangely enough disappears and reappears in different pictures, right like it happened with Taranee's bracelets in the previous issue.



In two pictures Cornelia's dress (16.41.2 en 16.41.6) is wrapped about her neck in a different way.

The curl on Hay Lin's shoulder (picture 16.20.1) stands backward.

17: Don't close your eyes

Vacations at Irma's has ended. Will, Taranee and Cornelia continue their own vacations somewhere else. Nerissa creates three more monsters: Ember, Tridart en Shagon.
Caleb, hunting for Luba, visits Will for help because Luba has gone with the Hale family to their holiday settlement, disguised as Sandra Doubman, a school friend of Cornelia's mother.
The other Guardians are being alarmed and go to Cornelia. But they are misfortunate and don't come further than an attempt to buy a ticket for the bus or train.
Cornelia tries to evade Sandra Doubman when she meets Will and Caleb.
That moment Luba tears off her disguise and neutralizes Caleb before she gets neutralized as well by Ember, who both with Tridart followed Luba to take Caleb with them. Will teleports the missing Guardians to her and tries to protect Caleb. When Shagon arrives the fight is lost and the monsters take Caleb with them. Afterwards the Guardians bring Luba back to Kandrakar.

This story is crowded with monsters! Nerissa creates another three, The mayor Krinkle tempts Lilian to make a photograph of the non-existing monster Scotty and Harold Hale calls Sandra Doubman a monster, taking the piss of her.
For the first time Caleb is nice! He has humor and makes fun of himself, and he manages to get rid of a child pest. And he learns Will how to transport things and persons almost like in Star Trek! A wonderful story!

(17.27.1) Will with a motor helmet! Could it be more cool? It asks for making an avatar from it!

(17.29.4)You can't do much with a telephone which has a nine-number keypad.

(17.42.5) Suddenly Irma has a second red band on her t-shirt, where it should be white. And the strawberry has suddenly disappeared too.

(17.44.2)Taranee doesn't only have problems with the booking-clerk, but lost two earrings too.

17.45.2 to 17.45.4: Our overenthousiast Lilian prepared herself to photograph 'Scotty'. Her camera's strap hangs over her left shoulder first, then over the right shoulder and then again over the left shoulder. By the way, she never could make a photograph, because when Shagon fell into the lake with Caleb, she didn't have her camera with her anymore.

(17.52.3-4) The long hair of Hay Lin and Irma's necklace disappear in a miraculous way, and the strawberry on Irma's t-shirt as well. And the red band of the t-shirt suddenly runs through to the arm.

18: Fragments of summer

The oracle has decided to partially erase the girls' memories for their own good. By that they forget Caleb and Nerissa.
Hay Lin has met a boy, Eric Lyndon. When the other girls are introduced to him, Matt arrives on the wrong moment, making him think Eric is "the stranger with the motor". Therefore he drops Will. But when he meets Eric again in the presence of Martin and Nigel he discovers he's wrong.
Meanwhile Caleb is held captive by Nerissa in the Thanos mountain where she rejuvenates herself (and it's a real improvement!). Caleb manages to escape and meets Luba.
Nerissa gains on him. On that very moment the Guardians remember everything again and go into battle. To shorten the fight against Nerissa Luba sacrifices herself and gives the Guardians the time to leave with Caleb.

A fine fast story, with changes which don't make you loose the thread.
After her rejuvenation Nerissa wants to get rid of Caleb. It does not matter to her he has escaped and going to a certain death. For what she follows him then?

18.22.2-3: It's clear to see that things are not right with the wand of Nerissa.
18.25.1: Is this girl sick or an alien? Anyway, Kurt is standing close to her.
18.29.1: The artist has had a problem with the perspective, through which an Escher-like deformation has occurred. The arms of Will and Irma seem to be unnaturally long now without being remarked at once.

Nerissa before and after transformation. She looks much better now. If that only counted for her character as well...

Usually Yan Lin wears earrings, but in picture 18.34.2 she lost them.

Pictures 18.41.3, 5, 18.42.1 and 18.42.3: there is something strange with one of Eric's bracelets. First it is a closed bracelet, then it's missing, next to that it's an open bracelet and finally it's on the left pulse instead of the right!

19: The other truth

Nerissa attacks the girls in their dream so frequently, that they hardly dare to sleep. This sometimes causes shameful situations overdays.

Hay Lin discovers a letter from ex-Guardian Kadma to her grandmother. Kadma runs the "Rising Star Foundation" in Fadden Hills. Will is being told she was observed by her teachers and she was Halinors pupil beyond her knowledge until she moved from Fadden Hills to Heatherfield. When Kadma gives Will a diary and almost turns the girls out of doors, Hay Lin thoughtless whistles the tune called 'Nerissa's shivers'. Kadma then understands Nerissa has returned. She tells the part of the whole history Yan Lin and the oracle held back.

Later Will and Hay Lin go to the observatory to ask Eric's grandfather Zachary Lyndon, a mysterious astronomer, to decode the runes in the diary.
Cornelia supposes to hold a pyjama party at hers to battle against Nerissa in a collective dream. The idea works, and Nerissa has to flee from the girls with the painful realization her weakness is uncovered.

Artist Manuela Razzi has done a good job! The pictures are better than the earlier issues. The only sad thing is that sometimes the sequence of the vignettes is unclear.

The oracle doesn't seem to be that holy and all-knowing anymore! In the eyes of Kadma and Halinor he has failed and he even doesn't know the slightest thing about the place where Caleb finds himself on the moment. More fun is Yan Lin, who really looks like a penguin.

Pictures 19.47.4 and 19.60.3: First the white band on Cornelia's nightgown has some decoration, later it hasn't any. Stranger is the one-piece nightdress Will is wearing; how the heck does she put that thing on and off?

The doll's house has been turned about twice! Why?

Pictures 19.49.1-2: Cornelia's bed is large enough to have a cuddly toy next to you. Still the rabbit has disappeared. Hay Lin herself has an alien cuddly toy at home, so there is no reason to speak about shame!

It doesn't look like Will has moved during her sleep. So what about the doll's house? It didn't move from its place either!

The sequence of the vignettes are so confusing, even the editors became a victim and swapped two texts among each other. Here's the reconstruction how it should be.

20: Hate's blow

Mrs. Rudolph is retiring with the meanings of returning to Meridian. Her departure will be celebrated at the Sheffield Institute.
Will has to deal with voices in her head more and more, driving her paranoid and make her losing her reliance on her friends. In addition there are more dangers waiting for her.
Professor Lyndon tells Hay Lin about the description of an unknown star in Halinors diary. From what he tells her Hay Lin is able to conclude this star was visible the last time at the birth of Will!
Will gets convinced her friends are imposters and tries to destroy them. When she discovers her mistake she unbosom's herself on Matt, and she shows him the Heart of Kandrakar. Nerissa, possessing the body of Matt, takes the Heart and leaves the deceived Will.

Though the oracle bloody well knows about the seriousness of the upcoming threat, he does nothing but floating around pretending nothing's wrong. "It's decided", isn't it? "It's written!" Even Yan Lin is criticizing the oracle.

Picture 20.40.4: Irma's beautiful evening dress doesn't seem to be drawn easily. Just watch pictures 20.33.1 and 20.45.2, 5 and 6 and 20.48.1 .

20.6.3-20.8.1:Well, what is it? First we see Will having the strap of her backpack at the left, but soon it jumps to the right and backwards. Finally she decides to wear it on the right shoulder. With her belt it goes wrong as well (20.9.3). In this picture Hay Lin is missing her legs!

In picture 20.45.2 Hay Lin literally says: "Without the Heart of Kandrakar we cannot transform ourselves!" Wrong! There's enough proof they can.

Picture 20.46.2: the table is missing two of its legs.

21: Tomorrow's shadows

Nerissa marches up with her horde against the fortress of Kandrakar, taking barrier after barrier. Meanwhile Will and the girls get back the diary. The next evening they sneak into the observatory.
The defenses of Kandrakar don't have effect, just as Caleb shows up and offers his help to battle against Nerissa.
While Will has a spiritual contact with the spirit of Cassidy (something only Irma understands at first) the others kick the ass of Khor, who was send out for another time. Will gets a copy of the Heart of Kandrakar, with which they hurry to the fortress.
Over there we see Caleb being surprised about the real appearance of Cornelia. And Nerissa is standing at the door ready for the endgame.

The artist has been rough with the lines. Every wrinkle and flab is drawn. But he's been royal to Susan Vandom, looking a lot younger and Nerissa, who's got some great boobs in her decolleté.
At last Cornelia has a realistic way of thinking. Alas, Caleb's reaction is embarrassing. Who would have thought that?

Something strange happens in the observatory when the girls visit professor Lyndon. Irma wants to see the stars by daylight, as he reminds her she can't! But he was the one who opened the dome!

21.3.4, 21.15.5 en 21.15.6: It's clear enough there's something wrong with Cornelia's clothes.

21.18.3: And so it is with Taranee! Her clothes have changed colours! And when she sneaks in together with the others she has her cap with her when she enters. But in picture 21.27.4 she has lost it.

21.31.1: The last mistake is the biggest! When the girls entered the observatory the moon was full. But when they leave the building on page 46 the moon has passed the last quarter. In picture 21.47.3 you see next to Yan Lin a fish in its bowl, a little further a kind of tribble (yes, Star Trek!) and a bit further you find a praying mantis! This artist loves joking!

22: A broken heart

Everyone prepares himself for the endgame! Nerissa is at the doorstep, the Guardians choose their individual opponents and the Congregation commences to meditate. Nerissa breaks the Heart of Kandrakar from which pure evil streams down covering the Fortress. And instead of making a counter-move the Guardians fall asleep and awake into a life without problems.
The one after the other forgets all about Kandrakar seeing their boyfriend or in Irma's case, the boy she fancies. Only Cornelia is left, clinging herself on the memory of Caleb. With her love for him she breaks the spell Nerissa has casted over the Guardians.

The Star of Cassidy merges with the broken Heart and heals it.
The Heart, endowed with the spirit of the nymph Xin Jing chooses Will after a verbal duel against Nerissa. Knowing everything is lost Nerissa gathers her last powers to seal her hate paying with her life, a Pyrrhic victory... Instead of it she gets incinerated by the Guardians.

The black dregs which covers the Fortress is the same muck which manifested itself in Cornelia's bedroom (see Witch issue number 3).
Cornelia has proven for herself love really is stronger than magic.
This is quite a nice story, spiced with romance, psychology and a bit of horror.

Question: Cornelia never has seen Cheepee before, neither has she met Kadma ever. How is it possible then she recognizes him at once? And how is it possible Kadma recognizes Cornelia?

Mrs. Cook arrives at the schoolyard wearing a set of ear-drops with a matching necklace. The pearls of the ear-drops are hanging below her coiffure. It's already going wrong on page 22.19, where she first looses her right ear-drop, as well as her necklace. On page 22.20 she looses her left ear-drop and on picture 22.21.1 she looses both of them.

Kadma's pendant (from page 22.26 to 22.29) changes hanging in height.

From page 22.43 to page 22.59 you see the curls change on Hay Lin's shoulders.

Picture 22.53.6: Cornelia has a curl in her top, and the one in her skirt has disappeared.

23: Farewell!

The battle against Nerissa has ended, but for Cornelia an inner one still has left: her love for Caleb. The excuses that bastard has to end their relationship are not accepted and she lets him burst. When it's decided to bring him back to Meridian both with Galgheita she doesn't want to go along. Instead she returns to Earth to transport Galgheita to Kandrakar. As a deed of love she delivers the homeless Ray the memory about a nice fairy giving him a home for the night. Meanwhile Will bursts out against the oracle to utter the displeasement of her and her friends, which of course causes a stir.
The return of Caleb and Galgheita leads to a festivity in Meridian; we see Elyon and Vathek back again.
Back at home a disaster awaits Will: her astral drop has gone, causing Will getting grounded. Cornelia, Irma and Taranee find the astral drop near Olsen's and manage to catch her. At Will's home she tells she saw Matt with an other girl. Reluctantly she merges with Will, who of course gets really upset by receiving the astral drop's memories.
Despite of this all seems to end well, but now there's a man standing at the door...

Again love is the subject, but it's broken love, especially Cornelia's. The last one partially still is the protagonist!
It gives a good laugh seeing dormouse getting confused when he sees its master and her double. Who's who?
This has become a nice story again. The pictures are splendid, but they are somewhat disappointing in the second half.

23.28.1: An artist's joke: Will's shadow reveals her double identity.
23.29.4: The lower half of Will's sleeves are yellow, while they were purple at first!

23.13.4: If we shouldn't know better you would think Cornelia is hugging a penguin! Take a look at the end of her sleeve too. Usually it has a pointed end on the back of her hand, but not here! And this repeats itself throughout the story several times. And it still goes wrong with he curls on Hay Lin's shoulders.


23.14.3: The tale of the homeless and the fairy...


Thanks to Naomi Renders some new errors are revealed:


23.5.1: Cornelia's top is purple.
23.5.3: Initially Cornelia's sweater has no knitting pattern, but it has one on the next page.
23.6.1: Taranee is missing her left wristlet.

23.19.1: Irma is wearing a typical variant of Wills top. The sleeves are equal, but the colour is green and Irma has bare shoulders as she and Cornelia are used to.

Then Taranee's dreadlock. It was missing on pages 23.36, 23.37 and 23.38. From picture 23.43.3 the dreadlock is back again. After a single disappearance on page 23.48 the dreadlock is gone forever from page 23.50.

23.18.6: Hay Lin's top isn't fully colored in, and at Irma's right leg (23.20.3) the lower bands are missing.

24: Trust on me

Matt introduces his girlfriend Mandy to Will, which results to a jealousy attack by Will. Thus Mandy is victim to Will's magical naggings during the qualifying rounds. Imagine how Will feels when she hears Mandy is just entirely a friend of Matt since Kindergarten and he means a lot to her, even since her parents are divorcing.
Taranee and Hay Lin are out both with Nigel en Eric to make a reporting in the Rock&Roll Café, forgetting it's closed. Next to that they get a fight with Uriah who insulted Taranee and Hay Lin. Finally they end up in the police station.
At the same time Will meets another surprise: daddy's back! Result: Susan in paranoia and Will in seventh heaven (for the time being...). He gets tangled with Susan and tries to get the trust from Will.
Punished for her bad marks Taranee has to make her homework in her mother's office. That's where she discovers the "Vandom case" Taranee takes care for it that Will knows about this...

This is the end of the second saga and a turning point for Will. Despite his good intentions we already know what ^$@*#@!*%$*& Thomas Vandom truly is.
Cornelia and Irma are left at the background for a bit, but it's sure Irma's on the hunt... for a boy!

24.1.4 en 24.1.6: Amanda Bolland wears two hairpins at first, then just one.
24.3.2: Irma has lost her right eye.

24.27.1 and 24.27.1: Uriah is molesting the dispenser when it failed to eject a can. Would he have pressed the "money back" knob? The panel at least suffers from his foot. But the next page the dent is positioned next to the panel!

On page 24.10 a few things aren't right. Primarily the roses are situated a different way in the trash can, and secondary the cell phone addresses the fridge with Edward instead of James. A mistake; the phone is Edward himself!

24.28.2 and 24.28.4: Susan, Will and Dean are celebrating Will's victory in the qualification round. By candlelight! But the candle jumps from its place from Dean to Will! /p>

24.23.5-6: Peter is standing at the right from his father when his mother asks him a question. But when he makes his witty remark he's standing on the left side of his father!

Pages 24.18-24.22: Several things go wrong with the girl who walks along with Will and Mandy. At first she has her goggles around her neck, after that she has them in her hand. Why so? She even doesn't have her bathing cap with her, though she wears it from picture 24.19.1. First with a light red band, then a white band, and on picture 24.22.1 she has a complete white bathing cap and a green bathing suit. In picture 24.22.2 everything is restored again.

On picture 24.34.4 mrs. Lin addresses her own daughter with 'Taranee'!

And as if it's not enough! On page 24.53 Will and Mandy are sitting on a bench with a dark blue and yellow bag between them. On page 24.54 it's entirely dark blue. On page 24.53 Will has a towel over her shoulders, except for pictures 24.53.5 and 24.53.7. On page 24.54 they are sitting on that towel. For what?