Midnight Pals: Magic

HP Lovecraft: everyone, this is harry Houdini the famous magician
Harry Houdini: hey
Stephen King: you know harry Houdini?
Lovecraft: oh yeah we've been looking for a project to work on together for a while
King:
Lovecraft: we already established he's not really italian

King: so you must really believe in magic, huh?
Houdini: nope!
King: nope?
Houdini: it's all flim-flammery!
King: flim flimmery?!
Houdini: and tomfoolery!
King: well i knew it was flim flammery
King: but to think it's tomfoolery too--!

Alan Moore [appears in a clap of thunder]: what fool dares to doubt the existence of magic?
King: the arch magus!
Lovecraft: the arch magus!
Poe: the arch magus!
Barker: the arch magus!
Koontz: the arch magus!

Houdini: i am that fool
Houdini: fie on your so-called magic!
Houdini: why, it's nothing but a lot of humbug and ballyhoo!
Houdini: i believe, my good sir, in facts and logic
Houdini: by my calculations, magic is a flapdoodle of a fraud!

Moore: MAGIC NOT REAL?!
Moore: A FLAPDOODLE!
Moore: A FRAUUUUUD!?!?!?!??!!?
King: uh, harry
King: you might want to speak a little more uh
King: respectfully
King: to the arch magus
Houdini: balderdash! hogtits!
Moore: HARRY HOUDINI
Moore: DO NOT TAKE ME FOR SOME CONJURER OF CHEAP TRICKS

Moore: [sky darkens, thunder sounds] now observe the awesome powers of the magus… unleashed!
Moore: ok check it so please note that these 3 rings are NOT connected

Houdini: bring your best magicians! i'll defeat them all with the power of facts and logic!
Aleister Crowley: i got this bro
Crowley: I'M THE GREAT BEAST!!!
Crowley: DO WHAT THOU WIIILT!!

Crowley: ok first you need a giant hat shaped like a pyramid
Houdini: really? this is the best you got
Crowley: wait wait i'm not done
Crowley: then you need to draw a big ol' eye on it
Houdini: NEXT

Grant Morrison: see, magic is about collecting all 8 chaos emeralds-
Houdini: NEXT
Charles Williams: it's about following the dictates of god's holy Anglican church-
Houdini: NEXT
Eve Harms: wait wait wait check this out
Harms: just wait til you see what i can do to these base metals
Houdini: NEXT

Houdini: i look around and all i see
Houdini: are charlatans and frauds
Houdini: OH YEAH
Houdini: is there no one here with the strength to defeat me in the arena of knowledge?
Arthur Conan Doyle: NOT SO FAST!

Charles Dickens: prepare for trouble!
Doyle: make it double!
Dickens: we are
Doyle & Dickens: [standing arms folded, back to back] GHOST CLUB
Doyle: blasting off at the speed of light!
Dickens: surrender now or prepare to fight!
Robert Aikman: Meowth! That's right!

Dickens: we're a team of paranormal experts dedicated to investigating the uninvestigatible
Dickens: determining the indeterminable
Dickens: and canning the uncanny
Doyle: and also fairies
Dickens: no no no
Doyle: yes we look for fairies too
Dickens: no Arthur we talked about this, we're not doing fairies

Doyle: ok harry i know you think magic is all "fake" and "lies"
Doyle: but if that's the case explain The Lost World (1925)
Houdini: what the
Houdini: are those REAL dinosaurs?!?!
Doyle: mmmmaybe