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Loading... The Wicked The Divine Volume 3: Commercial Suicide (edition 2016)by Kieron Gillen (Author)
Work InformationThe Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Kieron Gillen (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Commercial Suicide feels like a side-step at first, in that we seemingly move away from the ongoing story of Wicked + The Divine to see what other gods are up to, in issues drawn by a variety of guest artists. There's also an issue entirely made up of things McKelvie drew for previous issues of Wicdiv. This turns out to be kind of a trick, because a couple of these issues are set in the present day, and develop the evil plan of Ananke. I think if you were more into these characters, you would get more out of them than I did, though I did appreciate the beautiful art of Tula Lotay in the very depressing Tara focus issue. After the amazing first two volumes, this one was a huge letdown. First, there was very little plot development. Instead, the individual issues that comprised this volume focused on the back stories of each of the various gods. Only the issues involving Tara and Woton, and to a lesser extent Morrigan's, were necessarily plot-relevant. The others were only peripherally so, if even that. The main thing that I found particularly jarring was that each issue used a different artist so that this volume did not feel like a cohesive whole. This was particularly true for Sakhmet's story, where the art style was so incredibly different from the others that I felt like I was reading a completely different title - not to mention that the handwritten font was incredibly hard to read on my tablet screen. Several characters weren't instantly recognizable from issue to issue because of the different styles. Overall, a bit disappointing. Given the giant honking cliffhanger that volume 2 ended on and all the burning questions that were unresolved, very little was done in this volume to address any of that. Frustrating, to put it mildly. Hopefully, answers will be coming in the next few issues. no reviews | add a review
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"After the detonation of FANDEMONIUM the gods-as-pop-stars of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE try living in the long dark shadow. Team WicDiv are joined by a stellar cast of guest artists to put the spotlight on each of the gods. The multiple Eisner Award nominated series continues in the only way it knows how: darker, weirder, faster. Don't worry. It's going to be okay"--Publisher's website. No library descriptions found. |
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