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A review by ladyfives
Rat Queens, Vol 8: The God Dilemma by Ryan Ferrier
And this is where I sign off. It was a good run, Rat Queens.
Most of the previous volumes were enjoyable but kind of frustrating—the ideas, both on the issue & arc level, are often awesome, bizarre, or fun. But especially with the bigger ideas like Evil Hannah it feels like the writers only want to have fun in the set-up and build-up…and put the important finales off-screen. I feel like I’m being told, “Oh, we didn’t actually want to write that. And you didn’t want to read it, right?” I was here the whole time. Yes, I did.
Regardless, there’s a reason that after the confusing chaos that was Vol.3, I came back for more. These are great characters and even if the artists keep changing, they always add something special and different. I’ve got a spot in my heart for irreverent, crass, gory, often nasty high fantasy—that still is emotionally true and appropriately epic. Rat Queens almost got there.
Most of the previous volumes were enjoyable but kind of frustrating—the ideas, both on the issue & arc level, are often awesome, bizarre, or fun. But especially with the bigger ideas like Evil Hannah it feels like the writers only want to have fun in the set-up and build-up…and put the important finales off-screen. I feel like I’m being told, “Oh, we didn’t actually want to write that. And you didn’t want to read it, right?” I was here the whole time. Yes, I did.
Regardless, there’s a reason that after the confusing chaos that was Vol.3, I came back for more. These are great characters and even if the artists keep changing, they always add something special and different. I’ve got a spot in my heart for irreverent, crass, gory, often nasty high fantasy—that still is emotionally true and appropriately epic. Rat Queens almost got there.