Monstress #13 Review

Writer: Marjorie Liu / Artist: Sana Takeda / Image Comics Goodness, Monstress is back in this new year of 2018 returning as a Hugo Award-winning book with a new arc and, once again, another oversize issue to bring us back into Maika’s adventures and struggles. To recap three major drama bombs of what last issues have brought us: deception and, by default, betrayal are exclusive in this world. Maika learns that her beloved mother who, as we read on, often operated by blurring the lines of ambition and vanity, purposely conceived Maika in order for her to become something to be feared. She also purposely raised her as a weapon before their untimely separation. Not good. It was hinted several issues ago that Tuya, Maika’s only friend in the world, someone whom she survived being enslaved with and being the dregs of society with…was confirmed as a member of the Dusk Court, someone who seeks Maika’s power in some regard or another. No bueno. It is also confirmed that Maika has an actual living family member alive and kicking, her grandmother, yet not of human face and kind. Maika’s grandmother is of the older, more ancient variety, also of the Dusk court. She also has taken the back seat and let the proverbial chess pieces play on the board as she’s sat back in luxury…Maika Halfwolf has known nothing but strife in this life and I can’t blame her for the fight-or-flight reflexes she’s honed and has depended on because they’ve kept her alive. also see me emotionally digesting al…