Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

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

22 reviews

rwsmith's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.5

A++ graphic novel. art is beautiful and very well-done, well thought out and it conveys so much in every panel. a short read, but endearing, makes you love the characters and feel for the things they go through. makes me want to get the big volume of all the origin stories! grabbed this from the public library to start me off on these character's stories. 

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Content Warnings

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

bibookworm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Body horror

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

idleemma's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

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

jenns_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

Spent 10 minutes reading this standing in the middle of my condo, and had a reasonably good time. It's a fast look at the backstory for Caleb Widogast that we knew of from the campaign - but it's interesting to see it visually laid out. The art was beautiful. But I will not forgive the artists for including Frumpkin the cat as a victim in the fire - absolutely heartBREAKING.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Animal death

Moderate: 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

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

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

nowflymeaway's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Torture, Sexual content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death