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A review by samhain
The Wicked + The Divine #44 by Jamie McKelvie, Matt Wilson, Kieron Gillen
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.