A review by pagesofpins
Monstress #1 by Marjorie Liu
Some of the most gorgeous art I've ever seen, a unique blending of eastern and western styles with amazing detail. Seriously gruesome violence, though.
It took me a while to sort out that humans are at war with arcanics, which are interbred humans and ancients, but the ancients are still around with various alliances, and that not all arcanics are "witch nuns", a sort of matriarchal Catholicism with science that looks like magic, or blends with magic, or something. And then there's the off-the-grid arcanics who mostly remain hidden, and neutral or mostly neutral peaceful human Daughters of Eden, and cats with multiple tails who are the most ancient race, and a lot of ancient Egyptian goddesses and myths worked in. I'm swimming in factions and artistic influences and religious blends here. In the midst of this complex world we have a girl who is possessed by an evil god monster thing that she cannot control, the result of a childhood betrayal she cannot figure out.
Not as attatched to most of the characters as I thought I would be, but I really like the little fox girl. She's brave and adorable and should have her own comic.
It took me a while to sort out that humans are at war with arcanics, which are interbred humans and ancients, but the ancients are still around with various alliances, and that not all arcanics are "witch nuns", a sort of matriarchal Catholicism with science that looks like magic, or blends with magic, or something. And then there's the off-the-grid arcanics who mostly remain hidden, and neutral or mostly neutral peaceful human Daughters of Eden, and cats with multiple tails who are the most ancient race, and a lot of ancient Egyptian goddesses and myths worked in. I'm swimming in factions and artistic influences and religious blends here. In the midst of this complex world we have a girl who is possessed by an evil god monster thing that she cannot control, the result of a childhood betrayal she cannot figure out.
Not as attatched to most of the characters as I thought I would be, but I really like the little fox girl. She's brave and adorable and should have her own comic.