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Pretty Deadly #5 by Emma Ríos, Kelly Sue DeConnick
4.0
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

The conclusion to the first arc, and I'm still left with a lot of unanswered questions and a heap of confusion to be honest, but I don't really mind. As I think I said in a review of an earlier issue, this series comes across as a puzzle box! I'm still largely in the dark as to what Johnny has to do with anything, and admittedly I've been reading this on my phone and even zooming in I found it hard to see what was happening with the key, but the framing with the snakes and the eventual end of Death are both just so visually striking that I'm fascinated regardless. This is weird western that leans very heavily into the weird, but it pays off.

I may be confused, but I'm also surprised, and more importantly, I'm interested