Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda - Monstress - Vol 3: Haven

Still good and possibly getting better. Characters proliferated over the first two volumes, with the usual questions about how they all fit together and how powerful they each are, but this third volume feels like a bit of a consolidation without diminishing the sense of scope and sprawl. Some of the story's lines appear quite traditional (modern) fantasy, while others are more out of the box, and the comic's commitment to fully-realised, messy female characters across the board is evidently baked in and provides some of its most enjoyable aspects.