Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast by Jody Houser

9 reviews

ong's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Caleb, my sweet sad wizard boy :(

Spoiler

ALSO PEEP THE MOLLYMAUK CAMEO?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Death, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Torture, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, and Animal death

Minor: Genocide, Sexual content, Classism, and Bullying

crykea's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.75

HOT. i love astrid eadwulf and bren. story is good too

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual content

merle_bookdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Just as sad and traumatizing as I expected it to be. We've learned quite a bit about Caleb#s backstory during the campaign and I had no illusions about how rough this comic would be but yeah our poor wizard boy really had a BAD time. I like how Ickythongs manipulation was made very obvious though and I also appreciated a lot that they should the relationship between Caleb, Astrid and Eadwulf explicitly on page because it is an important part of his past and how he developed at the academy. 

If you are planning to read this and you've seen Campaign 2 already - all good. If you haven't or know very little about Caleb's story this is an explicit recommendation to check the trigger warnings before reading because this comic has it all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Torture, Murder, Confinement, Physical abuse, Violence, Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness

lifeinsherds's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I recommend every Critical Role origins graphic novels! This one is especially beautiful and tragic in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

thekyleross's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Violence, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Forced institutionalization

penguinsquack's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Forced institutionalization

iaraya's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Forced institutionalization and Emotional abuse

Minor: Animal death and Torture

sarahhoward's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Classism

mazomazli's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

It was pretty good but quite fast (I understand it’s a comic so it must be). 
Also…

Spoiler

the amount of threesomes packed into 60 pages was… interesting. I feel like it could’ve used a bit more time on the shards in the arms part since it wasn’t explained

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse