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Pretty Deadly: The Rat #1
by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick
dark
sad
fast-paced
This begins a new mini-series in the wider Pretty Deadly world, and the focus seems to have shifted to old-time Hollywood. Clara has died there, having apparently thrown herself from the top of the Hollywood sign, and her uncle is desperate to know what happened to her. Something must have driven her to this, he reasons, and that's reason enough for Ginny, the reaper of vengeance, to arrive.
Again, as much as I enjoy the story - and I do - it's the artwork that's most spectacular here. Emma Ríos is using a new style, and it's very... tentacular, perhaps? That's not quite the word. It's sort of tentacles mixed with tree branches, the sort of branches that scrape outside your window in the middle of the night. I'm starting to think that the artwork varies alongside the reapers, for while Ginny turns up, the other reapers mentioned here - hunger, thirst, and obsession - all seem to have their own styles. Whatever that style is, it's very attractive to look at.
Again, as much as I enjoy the story - and I do - it's the artwork that's most spectacular here. Emma Ríos is using a new style, and it's very... tentacular, perhaps? That's not quite the word. It's sort of tentacles mixed with tree branches, the sort of branches that scrape outside your window in the middle of the night. I'm starting to think that the artwork varies alongside the reapers, for while Ginny turns up, the other reapers mentioned here - hunger, thirst, and obsession - all seem to have their own styles. Whatever that style is, it's very attractive to look at.