I hated this premise. So much? Our MC Nimona became Blackheart’s supervillain sidekick and pressured him into abandoning his “rules” (only going after his nemesis directly without killing innocent bystanders).

And yeah, the whole book was just them hatching plans to poison, harm, and unalive as many innocent people as they could on crowded streets and big events, all in the name of… something? A personal beef between Blackheart and his frenemy that was fairly easily resolved? Defying the corrupt-but-not-actually-killing-people institution running the country? Or just Nimona unleashing her Chaotic Evil sadism on people for no reason.

And it was all supposed to be funny? Because Nimona was a shifter and she’d, for example, turn into an elephant to trample people to death? I dunno.. even if she shifted into a funny animal, she was still a psycho.

The story made very little sense (why were the crowds cheering for the baddies who just attacked them?) and the chapters were extremely disjointed. Why did Blackheart even like her if her entire personality went against everything he stood for and she tricked him and pushed him into to going against his deepest values? I needed more on-page friendship building.

It’s very possible that this graphic novel just hasn’t aged well since 2013. Maybe I would have liked it more ten years ago.