![]() ![]() For endless miles in every direction, telephone and power poles provide some of the few signs of life between the highway and the distant horizon, though the towns-where average speeds drop suddenly from 70 mph to radar-enforced 25 mph or slower- are spaced just often enough along the highway to serve your food-and-fuel needs. Physiography aside, this route’s cultural landscape centers on small but self-sufficient farm or cattle communities that date back to the last days of the Wild West and that are far enough off the tourist trail to retain an unselfconscious, aw-shucks quaintness. Yet on US-83 you’ll also take in some phenomenal country: verdant farmland dotted with truly small towns, endlessly shifting prairie grassland, winding Missouri River roadways, and plain, isolated, where-the-hell-am-I agricultural expanses.įollowing roughly along the 100th meridian, US-83 marks the historic divide between the “civilized” eastern United States and the arid western deserts. Its grim moniker, “The Road to Nowhere,” is alternately unfair and then not severe enough, for the route navigates some of the widest and most aesthetically challenged landscapes in the country-the yawn-inducing rolling grasslands of the northern Great Plains, the beefy expanses of western Nebraska and Kansas, and the mesmerizing heat of the Texas-Oklahoma Panhandle-before following the lower Rio Grande south to the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() In the final panels of the comics, Timothy manifests Yo-Yo back into existence, thus performing his first spell.Once the only entirely paved route from Canada to “Old Mexico” (as hard-to-find postcards along the route still say), US-83 is still likely the shortest-from Swan River, Manitoba, dead south to Brownsville, Texas, and beyond to Matamoros, Mexico, seemingly without turning once. However, both the brigade and himself soon realize that the choice was an illusion, since he's already seen the magical side of the world and won't be able to forget it. Then she sends Timothy back to his time.Īfter returning from the journey, Timothy tells the Trenchcoat Brigade that the price that he's seen is too high, and he chooses the regular life. She also mentions that she has "an appointment in Samara" with him, thus tying Mister E to an old legend. Death tells Mister E that Timothy's life is not his to take, and orders him to walk back to his time "the hard way" - one year at a time. The owl sacrifices itself to save Timothy, but soon their fight is interrupted by the appearance of first Destiny, and then Death who came to claim her brother and then the Universe itself. However, the worried Trenchcoat Brigade sends Yo-Yo through time to rescue Timothy. There, at the End of Time, Mister E reveals that he has no intention of taking Timothy back rather, he believes the boy to be weak like all humans and wants to kill him before the world corrupts his soul. Finally, they arrive at the End of Time when they meet the last thing remaining before the collapse of the Universe - the embodiment of the Major Arcana of Tarot inhabiting the place they call Terminus. Next Mister E takes Timothy thousands years into the future, showing him how both science and magic rise and fall time and again, taking different forms, until finally, millions years from now, both terms lose all meaning. This battle is fought differently in different futures, but it always signifies the end of magic for the centuries to come. ![]() First, they visit a point fifteen years from their time when a final battle between the magical forces of good and evil is being fought, and in this instance the grown-up Timothy is leading the forces of evil. Mister E takes Timothy to one of the possible futures. #The road to nowhere series#Book IV: The Road to Nowhere is the fourth and final issue in the limited series ' The Books of Magic. ![]()
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