novelerachavela's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
whimpulse's review against another edition
5.0
Second volume of the series! This is where I went from being impressed at the comic to honestly loving it.
Where the first volume could get a bit heavy for me thanks to the amount of exposition needed to introduce the world (note: partly my fault - I binged the whole thing at once. And it was a lot...), this one was more of an adventure. There's a couple of silly moments, the characters get more fleshed out, the villains are great, the art is breathtaking and the universe it all takes place is, like last time, full of wonder.
One of the main themes seems to be Allison having to decide her own fate - or, as someone put it, "the shape she will take".
Note: I actually binged the whole thing without a break back in November, but re-read the parts I had been skimming over a bit carelessly on December 24th, so that's where I'll mark this as "read".
Where the first volume could get a bit heavy for me thanks to the amount of exposition needed to introduce the world (note: partly my fault - I binged the whole thing at once. And it was a lot...), this one was more of an adventure. There's a couple of silly moments, the characters get more fleshed out, the villains are great, the art is breathtaking and the universe it all takes place is, like last time, full of wonder.
One of the main themes seems to be Allison having to decide her own fate - or, as someone put it, "the shape she will take".
Note: I actually binged the whole thing without a break back in November, but re-read the parts I had been skimming over a bit carelessly on December 24th, so that's where I'll mark this as "read".
heysunbee's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
friutpunch's review
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore and Murder
kaitythecat's review
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
oldmanrupee's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Violence
jubbygestalt's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
vernip's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Lot less lore dump, and a lot more things happening in the now.
In which, our heroine gets into a drinking contest, names a demon with a most weebtastic series of references, swaps places with a slave girl, gets the attention of a tyrant queen "trapped" by her station & looks, and kills a tree that sprouted from the corpse of a god-king.
Also, her hair stopped being blonde *shrugs*
The angel pal from the first book on the other hand, gets a (further) identity crisis, is made an offer that they simply can't refuse, and joins the heroine on her quest to wipe the heavenly slate clean.
Also, can this angel's true form have any MORE eyes and wings in places there normally are not eyes and wings?
In which, our heroine gets into a drinking contest, names a demon with a most weebtastic series of references, swaps places with a slave girl, gets the attention of a tyrant queen "trapped" by her station & looks, and kills a tree that sprouted from the corpse of a god-king.
Also, her hair stopped being blonde *shrugs*
The angel pal from the first book on the other hand, gets a (further) identity crisis, is made an offer that they simply can't refuse, and joins the heroine on her quest to wipe the heavenly slate clean.
Also, can this angel's true form have any MORE eyes and wings in places there normally are not eyes and wings?
jonknightknighthunterbooks's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Read on the web. Totally not just reviewing this to make it clear I'm reading *something* at the moment.
valuxiea's review against another edition
2.0
The second book is significantly better than the first. Not great, but now there's actually a plot and characters as opposed to incoherent jerking off about how cool the author thinks their world building is paired with bad philosophy.
The big problem is the protagonist is not active in her own story. And you can write a story with a passive protagonist, it's just incredibly hard to do well. And even within those stories, at a certain point they have to stop being passive. Thank God, she finally does in LITERALLY THE LAST 10 PAGES.
I hope each book in the series subsequently improves, because asking the reader to slog through is a big ask.
Also, minor gripe. The series is called Kill 6 Billion Demons, and our protagonist is yet to have killed a single demon, or have killed anything for that matter. Also, almost every action scene is incoherent and hard to follow. Action scenes are supposed to be the one part of comics that they all excel at, that are hard to fuck up. I'll still read the next ones because I hate myself.
The big problem is the protagonist is not active in her own story. And you can write a story with a passive protagonist, it's just incredibly hard to do well. And even within those stories, at a certain point they have to stop being passive. Thank God, she finally does in LITERALLY THE LAST 10 PAGES.
I hope each book in the series subsequently improves, because asking the reader to slog through is a big ask.
Also, minor gripe. The series is called Kill 6 Billion Demons, and our protagonist is yet to have killed a single demon, or have killed anything for that matter. Also, almost every action scene is incoherent and hard to follow. Action scenes are supposed to be the one part of comics that they all excel at, that are hard to fuck up. I'll still read the next ones because I hate myself.