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octavia_cade's review
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
5.0
This is just enormously sad. The war's over, but there are so many dead that it doesn't really seem like a victory. In a series where death is both inevitable and valued, however, that sadness is also just a little ambiguous. Cyrus, for instance, is more affecting dead than alive, and I don't mean by that that his memory impacts on the other characters and makes me feel for him through them. I mean his ghost, who talks and wanders round in a sort of benign haunting, who makes friends with the reaper of fear, has both more narrative heft and more emotional pull. He's more interesting when he's dead, which is somewhat the case for a lot of characters in this series.
kellyd's review
3.0
Rating: 3.5 stars
An interesting story. I can't say I understood it a hundred percent; however, volumes of comics are like the first ten pages in a novel thus I feel that the important points are: visually appealing, intriguing plots/characters, etc.
An interesting story. I can't say I understood it a hundred percent; however, volumes of comics are like the first ten pages in a novel thus I feel that the important points are: visually appealing, intriguing plots/characters, etc.
coffeeandink's review
4.0
An amazing, dreamlike, nightmarish, atmospheric fantasy/horror Western. This first issue doesn't so much build as gather up different strands of story in a single hand: you can tell they'll weave together, but not yet how. Images linger: a dead rabbit, a butterfly, a blood-streaked girl holding a gun; gorgeous pink and yellow skies; Death's daughter, with scars or stitches creasing her mouth. In a theatre made up of an open-air stage in the town square (probably they use it for hangings), tramps tell the story of Death's daughter with illustrated banners and Tarot cards. The entertainers are an old, blind white man and a young Indian girl in a vulture cloak; black homesteaders offer the man and the girl shelter; a white woman gunslinger hunts them down. Death's daughter rides through stories, coming when she's called to avenge your wrongs.
A single issue is hard to judge, but Pretty Deadly reminds me of Jeremy Love's Bayou, which rewrites American mythology and Alice in Wonderland to center on a black girl adventuring in the Jim Crow South and a fantastical and horrific underworld.
A single issue is hard to judge, but Pretty Deadly reminds me of Jeremy Love's Bayou, which rewrites American mythology and Alice in Wonderland to center on a black girl adventuring in the Jim Crow South and a fantastical and horrific underworld.
jenk2020's review
3.0
I loved the artwork in this one, but man it's confusing. Actually even the artwork can't save it in places. I read bits about five times thinking what the f@*k is going on? Some really interesting characters but we never really get to know any of them as their introductions are rushed. I'm intrigued to read on in the series but glad I got this one from the library and will wait to get the next issue from them too.
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