Peculiar Path

Wiccan's first miniseries takes him off the beaten track on the Witches' Road

- STEPHEN JEWELL

THE REINCARNATED SON OF THE Scarlet Witch and the Vision, Billy Kaplan first appeared as a Young Avenger in 2001. Now, nearly two and a half decades later, Wiccan is starring in his first, five-issue miniseries, in which he travels the mythical Witches' Road, following in the footsteps of his television counterpart - as played by Joe Locke - in last year's Agatha All Along.

"Billy's a wonderfully rich character with so many aspects that have been left unexplored," writer Wyatt Kennedy tells Red Alert. "But the thing that attracted me most was getting to put him front and centre of the story. It's no secret that he has what one could generously call a 'complicated' backstory, especially given his power set, so I wanted to start him from a low point and watch him work his way up to being a hero worthy of the magical mantle he carries.