Monstress #11 Review

Writer: Marjorie Liu / Artist: Sana Takeda / Image Comics So we’ve finally made to the island (Not off it, mind you) and Maika is super focused on getting to where they need to be as always while her entourage of Master Ren and my sweet precious cinnamon roll too good for this world Kippa are looking at all the angles, hearing Maika talk the talk and are just like: What’s to be expected with every issue of Monstress? What’s to be seen in every new chapter? What’s to be expected in every story arc? I can’t even be poetic and phrase this more eloquently: Everyone is awful. Everyone has a secret agenda and Dear God there’s always some poor person or thing getting tortured or left in bad way. Is this something that has turned me away from this comic? NAH. Is this me complaining about it? NAH. This is simply me reminding us all of the harsh yet fantastic world with all its lore that these characters are making their way in—-I can NOT stress enough how this book is not for the birds. At the heart of this all, under all the many layers of the epic world building, the art that dares you look away from first… there is real sense of urgency, this appeal that if we lined up fictional worlds in a row to visit like Narnia, this would be in the same section of GOT in the sense where you’d really not want to visit but hell- you can’t help but keep getting sucked into it because…

Come on fam, we have traveled to an island MADE UP OF BONES. BONES OF A DEAD GOD. CARRIED TO THE ISLAND BY…