A review by octavia_cade
Pretty Deadly #8 by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick

dark sad fast-paced

5.0

This is absolutely awful, in the best possible way. The reapers of war, cruelty, and vengeance are on the trench battlefields of WW2 France, as the sympathetic human characters die around them. The reapers ask each other if these young men know what it is they're doing when they dig the trenches that will become their graves, and the answer is an unequivocal yes. It's such a waste, and that waste is reinforced by Emma Ríos' art, which is again outstanding. Her use of colour, in particular, is enormously affecting. Combined with the utter bleakness of the script the whole of the issue is just so compelling.