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A review by octavia_cade
Pretty Deadly #1 by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
The first of the Pretty Deadly comics, which I first read a couple of years back and have since bought for myself, because they're awesome. At this point the series is a weird western, which is not my preferred genre but which really works here: Deathface Ginny, the daughter of Death, can be summoned by singing a rhyming song which calls her forth in her role as the Reaper of Vengeance. Westerns are generally pretty good at vengeance, and the art reflects this: a mix of fantasy and reality that I find enormously appealing.
It honestly can take a while to sort out what's going on in these comics, as the storyline is fairly complex. The first real hint to that is that the whole is being narrated by a dead rabbit, after half its face has been shot off. The rabbit's talking to a butterfly, and I remember when I first picked this up wondering what the hell I'd stumbled across. The whole thing is just plain strange, but it's also original and weirdly - and I use that term deliberately - compelling.
It honestly can take a while to sort out what's going on in these comics, as the storyline is fairly complex. The first real hint to that is that the whole is being narrated by a dead rabbit, after half its face has been shot off. The rabbit's talking to a butterfly, and I remember when I first picked this up wondering what the hell I'd stumbled across. The whole thing is just plain strange, but it's also original and weirdly - and I use that term deliberately - compelling.