I have the Nicola Scott variant of this issue and my god it is absolutely gorgeous.

Baal saying all I do is win has just got me thinking of DJ Khaled and just internet culture in general and I love how this comic repeatedly makes pop culture references. It just totally adds to the realistic setting of two years ago. Also Baal is a total badass.

The skulls on the table to signify Lucifer, Tara, and Inanna genuinely made me a little bit sad, and even though some of them have been gone for multiple arcs now, I love that wicdiv regularly makes references to them. Gone but not forgotten.

But holy moly, the one page where Persephone takes up most of it and you see how Baal, Cassandra and Sakhmet react to what she says. A single word and she can change the entire game. The way her hair covers part of them, how she's the strongest out of all of them, and could easily consume and cover them if she wanted to. Honestly the illustrations are just so bloody gorgeous. Jamie McKelvie regularly goes above and beyond for WicDiv.

I just love these characters, I love them so so much. Urdr being revealed as a submissive polyamorous lesbian and Dio coming out as asexual and that being no big deal is just one of the reasons why I love this comic. The representation is incredible. There is no other mainstream comic with this level of LGBTQIA and POC representation. None at all. And the story and how three-dimensional all of the characters are just adds to everything.

This is genuinely my favourite arc since Fandemonium and this comic just seems to go from strength to strength.

The colouring for Motor Crush is always absolutely gorgeous.

I truly am worried for Domino. She can't seem to go without having crush every couple of hours now and it's completely affecting her rides. If she doesn't win, she can't help out Lola and be at the top like she should be. She's losing all her races, the pain of not having crush knocking her off her bike, but then, a mysterious stranger offers her help, and crush.

I love this comic, it's one of my favourites, and the intrigue around Domino and her story as a racer is just wonderful to me. The cover for the next issue looks gorgeous as always, and the art and story just seems to keep getting better.

I still have no bloody idea what's going on but I do have a bit of a thing for comics about vigilantes so this is keeping my interest a little bit.

With the whole killing bad guys for a demon aspect, it would be hard for me not to compare it to Kill Or Be Killed, which is frankly a superior comic.
Maybe if I'd read this before that, then I'd enjoy this a bit more.

Holy moly, the colouring for this is insane.
I have genuinely never ever seen colouring as gorgeous as this in any comic I've ever read, so hats off to Rico Renzi. Describing it as a dark neon probably doesn't make any sense, but at least for me it was totally giving off a neo-noir vibe.

Loose Ends is dubbed a four-part southern crime romance, and this issue is crammed with action and characters. There might be a bit too much going on, but the art was such a delight that I honestly didn't care. I could read 500 pages of this and not get bored.
The characters are a little underdeveloped at the moment because there was that much action going on, but I trust that we'll get into them a bit more in the next issue.

Seriously, this comic is an artistic masterpiece, and just thanks to Image for finally putting out the full run after 10 years.

Holy wow that Veronica Fish cover is beautiful.

This issue broke my heart a little, especially with it being the second to last issue we're ever going to get.

Jory and the Backstagers being gone for two months is a huge thing, and I feel as though it is being trivialised just a little. They're all banned from seeing each other, but they still do (typical teenagers right).
Jory and Hunter no longer being together and crying about it in the library genuinely made me really upset because I've been rooting for them from the start.
Sasha playing football was also a super cute panel, and I wish we got to see more of him this issue.

Maybe I'm just not used to reading all ages comics. Anything bad that gets thrown at the Backstagers seems to be resolved in the same issue, or the next one. Anything done for dramatic purposes never seems to last long and it all turns out okay. It's either the comic's intended audience or the fact that we've only got eight issues, but exploration of any themes raised doesn't tend to happen or have enough depth for me.

I still like this comic, I really do, but something feels a little lacking for me.

I love love love this comic!

Even though this comic is about roller derby, which I've never done in my life, it's still so heavily relatable. I've been that girl who's wanted to do something with her best friend but ended up in a different place (then again haven't we all been that girl). I've had the boy that I've called 'the boy'. I've had to juggle splitting time between my old friends and my new friends and feeling bad when I can't seem to get it right.

I just love the idea of female friendship in this book. I love that Cancan is starting to stand up for herself. I love the art. I just love it.

Hey Veronica Fish, that's one nice cover.

Last issue had Cancan and Knockout stop being friends :( so I super hoped they made up this issue, and they kinda did, albeit at the expense of Cancan being injured.

I liked that they had an intro to roller derby at the start of this issue, because I honestly don't know a whole lot about it and it definitely made it feel more inclusive for someone like me who doesn't know their stuff.

The opposing panels of them talking to other members of their team about the dissolution of their friendship made me really sad but was such a good layout for this; to see their pain paralleled was just honestly really touching. This coupled with the last panel where Cancan calls Knockout her hero was so so cute!

I think this is my favourite issue to date because we had a really good balance of roller derby and the friendship between the two mains.

If an evil wizard kills other evil wizards who are after him, does that make him good, less evil than the other wizards, or just as evil?
This comic seems to keep pushing the idea that Wizord is evil but I just can't see it at the moment. He definitely does things that are morally questionable, like shrinking millions of people and putting them in a plastic bag, but I don't see him as evil.

He's trying to do the right thing, and his entire deal is 'the end justifies the means' but I like that he's like that.
In this issue he builds a paradise for the little people in the plastic bag (such a strange thing to type) and ends up losing his magic. Again, this issue was short on plot, but I still enjoyed it.

When they were speaking in bird language I was reminded just a little bit of Rick & Morty, which is probably not what Charles Soule was going for but it's what I got.

Sizzajee is also gorgeously coloured as always, but really isn't a big part of this at the moment. I can imagine his role will increase as the issues go on, but right now, this is pretty slow paced.

We've still applied the standard network reality casting percentages: fifty percent male, fifty percent female; sixty percent white, thirty percent ethnic, ten percent undetermined; balanced dispersal of ages from fourteen to eighteen; plus the four Golden Tokens: gay, foreigner, disabled, and orphan.

Gosh, I'm honestly a little bit at a loss on how exactly to review this book.
It tries to be many things at once; a satire on society and reality television, a survival story involving adolescents, a study in excess and greed and disparity between social classes, and then some science-fiction thrown in.

Boilded down, Waste of Space is a teen Big Brother that supposedly takes places in space (spoiler alert: it doesn't actually).

Waste of Space follows Chazz Young, a hotshot producer at a cable network called DV8 that shows trashy but enjoyable reality TV (so something like Bravo essentially), who gets the idea to create a show about sending kids into space and filming it. But he's not actually going to send them into space obviously, just make them and anyone watching the show think that he is. Oh, and he's pretty much doing everything on the fly and just going with the flow. It's all very blasé in the writers room for this show.

He holds auditions in malls across America and manipulates kids into signing contracts. There's very minimal time between developing the show and it being on air. And once it's on air it's a huge, astronomical hit, but of course something is bound to go wrong, and it does, completely.
It's all fast paced, and it's actually fun to read. I enjoyed the introduction to the characters and the absolute mania of development more than the actual show and plot, which took up most of the book naturally.

The book is written as a report, with an intern at DV8 compiling evidence in order to determine what actually happened during the duration of Waste Of Space's development, from the initial idea to the last aired episode. Waste Of Space is styled as a collection of audio and video transcripts, so if that's not your thing then you probably won't enjoy 500+ pages of it.
The story is split into four parts; Part One - Preproduction, Part Two - Production, Part Three - The Last Day, and Part Four - Post-Production. Again in all of these we have interviews, transcripts of live and recorded segments for the aired episodes, and transcripts of the live feeds.

At it's core, this is a story about exploration and exploitation. Everyone is exploited, and everyone learns something new about themselves and those around them. Characters who we think are one thing turn out to be another. It's a game, just like reality shows are. Chazz is toying with the audience, all of the teens are toying with each other, and the scientists are doing a little bit of playing themselves.

There were some surprises, some twists and turns, and this book definitely went places that I wasn't expecting. You go into this expecting the antagonist to be one person but it turns out to be someone completely different. There isn't one singular completely good guy, and no one singular completely good guy. Everyone in this book is flawed, even the slightly two-dimensional and underdeveloped characters.

This is a long book, with too many characters trying to do and be too many different things, but it's definitely a fun ride (pun intended).

The way the book ends is kind of hopeful in a completely terrifying way. The whole concept of this book is utterly terrifying, but the fact that one of the contestants is god knows where

after casually walking into a black hole

and we don't really see the aftermath of it is worrying.
No way would a show like this be on the air now, no way, but even with the slight fantasy/sci-fi setting, it does raise a lot of relatable issues.

If you want to read a book about a ton of teens being trapped together, then this is for you.
If you are looking for a book about space exploration then this probably isn't it (although some of the teens do genuinely believe they're in space right until the very end).
If you're just looking for a fun read, then this might be it.