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twirlsandwhirls's review
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I'm so close to the end of the series and I'm sad to see it go. So many twists and turns and it feels almost complete!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
ria_mhrj's review
5.0
Not sure why I waited quite so long to finish this series but DAYUMN, what a brain, what astonishing artwork, I will miss this series so much. One more issue left.
spookynymph's review
2.0
Not with a Bang but with a Whimper
I knew it. There's a reason the person I identify most with in this comic is Cassandra.
HEY GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
The frustrating thing is... I want to be happy for them? I guess? Because yay, choose life, and killing your gays is a gross trope, and I'm actually really deeply sympathetic to people needing to be pulled out of hell because I've been there myself. But. I don't care about either of the two girls in hell. I can cope with not knowing a lot about Eleanor, because she was only in about five issues overall. (Besides, part of the point of Eleanor's story is that she doesn't know who she is, either.) But even this close to the end, Laura remains as frustratingly inconsistent and opaque as she's always been.
Why does Laura care so much about Lucifer? When did these feelings happen? What was with banging Sekhmet and Nergal and Ba'al if she was secretly pining for Lucifer the whole time? I mean, I get the part about her wanting to save Lucifer because she's tired of watching people die. I felt that. But then, immediately after Eleanor renounces Lucifer, Laura's all, "Okay, I can handle one more person dying SUP ANANKE." And I was like, "Woman, will you make up your goddamn mind? Are you tired of death or not?" It would be different if the others had to talk her into it because she's the only one who can perform miracles reliably, but no. On one page, "[I don't] want to hurt anyone any more." Four pages later, "I bet I can burn a hole in her head."
Except then she doesn't have to because Valentine (Ba'al) grabs Min and jumps off the goddamn building. I'm not too upset with it because hey, I've been griping for ages that we're not seeing the torment he's going through. But it's because we haven't seen it that I'm dissatisfied with this. If we'd known he was falling apart inside, this wouldn't be so out of the blue. And I'm really annoyed with his summation of, "I spent my whole life trying to be a big man. And if this is what being a man means? It's not worth it." Because it's not what being a man means. It's what happens when you do evil, even when you think it's in the service of the greater good. Ananke knew Valentine wanted to be a protector and used it against him to break him. And it worked.
One more issue, but it's really just loose ends at this point. The only lingering question I have at the moment is, Are they going to get Tara a new body? And if so, how?
I knew it. There's a reason the person I identify most with in this comic is Cassandra.
Spoiler
So in my review of WicDiv #43, I said that I thought Lucifer was going to die, because renouncing Lucifer meant accepting being Eleanor, and I was pretty sure Lucifer hated being Eleanor even more than she loved being Lucifer. And then I said:That said, I won't be entirely surprised if Killen gives into the modern mania for subverting expectations and lets Eleanor live, probably because Laura loves her. I'll be disappointed, but not surprised.
HEY GUESS WHAT HAPPENS.
The frustrating thing is... I want to be happy for them? I guess? Because yay, choose life, and killing your gays is a gross trope, and I'm actually really deeply sympathetic to people needing to be pulled out of hell because I've been there myself. But. I don't care about either of the two girls in hell. I can cope with not knowing a lot about Eleanor, because she was only in about five issues overall. (Besides, part of the point of Eleanor's story is that she doesn't know who she is, either.) But even this close to the end, Laura remains as frustratingly inconsistent and opaque as she's always been.
Why does Laura care so much about Lucifer? When did these feelings happen? What was with banging Sekhmet and Nergal and Ba'al if she was secretly pining for Lucifer the whole time? I mean, I get the part about her wanting to save Lucifer because she's tired of watching people die. I felt that. But then, immediately after Eleanor renounces Lucifer, Laura's all, "Okay, I can handle one more person dying SUP ANANKE." And I was like, "Woman, will you make up your goddamn mind? Are you tired of death or not?" It would be different if the others had to talk her into it because she's the only one who can perform miracles reliably, but no. On one page, "[I don't] want to hurt anyone any more." Four pages later, "I bet I can burn a hole in her head."
Except then she doesn't have to because Valentine (Ba'al) grabs Min and jumps off the goddamn building. I'm not too upset with it because hey, I've been griping for ages that we're not seeing the torment he's going through. But it's because we haven't seen it that I'm dissatisfied with this. If we'd known he was falling apart inside, this wouldn't be so out of the blue. And I'm really annoyed with his summation of, "I spent my whole life trying to be a big man. And if this is what being a man means? It's not worth it." Because it's not what being a man means. It's what happens when you do evil, even when you think it's in the service of the greater good. Ananke knew Valentine wanted to be a protector and used it against him to break him. And it worked.
One more issue, but it's really just loose ends at this point. The only lingering question I have at the moment is, Are they going to get Tara a new body? And if so, how?
samhain's review
5.0
Laura Wilson is the toughest motherfucker in the universe. My mind is forever blown away by how she just casually reaches for Eleanor, literally and figuratively, in her darkest hours. She does it like it's nothing, like offering a light to someone lost into the darkness isn't one of the hardest things one can do in life. And she's doing this incredibly brave and agonizing thing while still being lost in the darkness herself, while she's still trying to climb outside of her own hell.
I'm a psychologist, I see people lost inside their own hell on a daily basis. And I'm still in absolute awe of Laura fucking Wilson being stronger and kinder than all the deities combined. She's doing what none of them could do: she's saving herself, and she's taking the others up with her. She was already my favourite character of the series, but she's now the absolute queen of my heart. Persephone was both life and death but Laura chose life, as painful as it is, and did so out of sheer determination and empathy for her fellow gods. Mind.blown.forever.
TW+TD made me feel all the emotions right through the end. I still have several questions about the ritual and Ananke's life in general, and I hope they'll be answered in the last issue, but the conclusion for the gods is perfect. In a sense, even Valentin found his way out of the depression and misery. I don't encourage suicide obviously but realizing he can no longer live with himself, not even if it means being with the love of his life, and deciding to use that to protect the others forever? His pain was unbearable, but in the mist of it, he still made the one choice that would save them all. He paid the price right 'til the end, willingly.
Gillen created the most human characters ever, and he made them absolutely sublime in their sufferings.
I'm a psychologist, I see people lost inside their own hell on a daily basis. And I'm still in absolute awe of Laura fucking Wilson being stronger and kinder than all the deities combined. She's doing what none of them could do: she's saving herself, and she's taking the others up with her. She was already my favourite character of the series, but she's now the absolute queen of my heart. Persephone was both life and death but Laura chose life, as painful as it is, and did so out of sheer determination and empathy for her fellow gods. Mind.blown.forever.
TW+TD made me feel all the emotions right through the end. I still have several questions about the ritual and Ananke's life in general, and I hope they'll be answered in the last issue, but the conclusion for the gods is perfect. In a sense, even Valentin found his way out of the depression and misery. I don't encourage suicide obviously but realizing he can no longer live with himself, not even if it means being with the love of his life, and deciding to use that to protect the others forever? His pain was unbearable, but in the mist of it, he still made the one choice that would save them all. He paid the price right 'til the end, willingly.
Gillen created the most human characters ever, and he made them absolutely sublime in their sufferings.
hdanniel's review
5.0
Hermoso final para la mejor serie de los últimos 5 años. Y aún falta un número mas.
aitanae's review
5.0
wicdiv is having the kind of ending that I love.
My name and a bit of the email I wrote in may, in the middle of a breakdown, appear on the letter page.
Idk. Everything is wonderful and a little sad.
That's a good summary of this year
My name and a bit of the email I wrote in may, in the middle of a breakdown, appear on the letter page.
Idk. Everything is wonderful and a little sad.
That's a good summary of this year
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