This month's issue of MAGIC Magazine (April 2008) contains a review of John Bannon's Royal Scam. Written by Jason England, the review says, in part: "The multiple phases and double-whammy ending make for a visually interesting and magically potent combination. ...there's an excellent bonus routine included. ...this effect plays like it uses gaffed cards. But it doesn't. At the end of the routine, everything is examinable. The cards used certainly aren't part of any normal deck (a Bicycle Ace of Spades with a green Tally-Ho back?)... The price for the DVD and the special cards is a very reasonable $15."The same issue of MAGIC contains the following about David Solomon's Knaves Gone Wild: "...Solomon has come up with convincing and interesting ways to display the cards both before and after each Jack vanishes."
And the hits just keep on coming. In the April, 2008 issue of MUM, Joshua Kane reviews Ross Johnson's Simply Psychic. He says: "...This is possibly the best one-disc DVD produced to date as an intro to mentalism...This one is a no-brainer: buy it today, before they wake up and raise the price."
There's lots more in the works from Fun Inc. along these lines. Look for two new Bannon effects in the coming months. If the above reviews are any indication, you should anticipate our new releases eagerly, or be the last one on your block to nod in assent when the critics finally pass judgment on them.
On a separate (but connected) note, I'm curious if anyone out there in cyberspace cares to share his comment on MAGIC's list of the ten funniest acts in magic today (again, see the April issue, or visit www.magicmagazine.com).
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