I rated and reviewed the individual comics collected in this edition separately, so this is basically just for my own records. The rating's 3 stars because that's the average of the separate issues. Overall, I found it likeable enough but not on the same level as The God Butcher. Part of that's down to tone and structure - which is both less even and less intricate this time round - but most of it's down to the villain of the piece. Gorr from Butcher was very strong initially and became less so over time due to his boring motivation. In The Accursed, however, it's the turn of the dark elf Malekith to act as antagonist. I'm new to reading these comics, and I get the impression that he's a returning character - fair enough, but I can only judge on what's happening here. For most of the collected issues he's not very interesting to me, certainly much less so than Gorr, but in #17 (the best of the bunch) he captures my attention, clearly having out-thought the good guys which I find so much more compelling than all the previous bloody slaughter.

Fun, but rather slight.