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A review by palomapepper
The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillen
2.0
#12 and #13 were very disappointing. Now that the main character / reader surrogate is ostensibly dead, the storyline feels like it's lost its heart. I'm not terribly attached to any of the new characters. The guest art in those issues fell flat for me - it changed the overall tone and felt disjointed.
#14 marked a return to the original artists (thank heavens) and a promising move in an interesting direction. Woden is turning out to be more of a Lucifer figure in this story than Lucifer herself.
I had hoped that #15 - 17 will take the story in a more cohesive direction, instead of setting up more loose ends...
#15 was, again, a disappointment. Plot was barely comprehensible: there's a confusing fight and something vague about cultural appropriation?
#16 wasn't so bad. The Morrigan's and Baphomet's origin story is engaging enough. The issue ends with a cute kind of "punch."
#17 was another disappointment with distracting & less attractive guest art. The peek into Sakhmet's backstory felt... perfunctory.
#14 marked a return to the original artists (thank heavens) and a promising move in an interesting direction. Woden is turning out to be more of a Lucifer figure in this story than Lucifer herself.
I had hoped that #15 - 17 will take the story in a more cohesive direction, instead of setting up more loose ends...
#15 was, again, a disappointment. Plot was barely comprehensible: there's a confusing fight and something vague about cultural appropriation?
#16 wasn't so bad. The Morrigan's and Baphomet's origin story is engaging enough. The issue ends with a cute kind of "punch."
#17 was another disappointment with distracting & less attractive guest art. The peek into Sakhmet's backstory felt... perfunctory.