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The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 3: Commercial Suicide by Brandon Graham, Jamie McKelvie, Leila del Duca, Stephanie Hans, Kieron Gillen, Tula Lotay, Kate Brown
5.0

After the devastating climax of the last volume, we get a series of chapters each focusing on a different member of the pantheon in the aftermath. Not that most of them even notice what happened to Laura, but there's plenty for them to concern themselves with as Baal goes on the rampage after Baphomet for murdering Inanna. Each chapter has a different artist and a different style and they are all gorgeous and various degrees of devastating to read, meaning you'd very nearly miss what a stunning piece of storytelling is occurring in the Woden chapter, created almost entirely using art from previous McKelvie issues and one little, er, insert from Sex Criminals.

WicDiv continues to be the most zeitgeisty of comics, tpping into a pure pop stream of celebrity, love, death, violence, power fantasies, the ecstasies of youth, the longing for something more and the various dysfunction of all sorts of families.