Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

7 reviews

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

fronk10's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

Good visualisation of the story Liam told in the show, with nice extra insight to Caleb/Astrid/Eadwulf’s relationship. Didn’t really expand more than that, though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

troll_for_initiative's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Murder

thingslucyreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Murder, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Sexual content and Blood

tinysongstress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Sexual content, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual content, Gore, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Blood, Violence, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Kidnapping

talasterism's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Moderate: Blood

thebooktree's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Animal death, Confinement, Murder, Mental illness, and Physical abuse