Rat Queens #10 Review

writer: Kurtis J. Wiebe / artist: Stjepan Sejic / Image Comics Straight out of the gate I need to be honest about something. Are you ready? Here goes. *deep breath* I LIKE STJEPAN SEJIC AS THE ARTIST AND HOPE ROC UPCHURCH NEVER COMES BACK. PHEW. Glad I could get that off of my chest. Because seriously, before I get started gushing over the writing of this issue, I need to praise the artwork. Sejic is putting his foot in these panels, and every page is both delightful and delicious to behold. The tiniest details are captured so wonderfully, but it’s the expressions and body language he gives the characters that I’m just in love with. Slight eyebrow cocks here, snarky smirks there…it’s glorious. From action scenes to emotional up close and personal moments, he’s doing some amazing work. I’m SUCH a fan. Ok. On to the story.

So here in the 10th issue we are concluding the current story arc, and the past few issues have shown us an almost completely flattened Palisade, a chained up and nekkid Sawyer, and Gerrig, who has completely lost his damn mind.  Issue #10 opens up with another flashback, where we see that Hannah and Tizzie (we know her from the first issue) attended Mage University together and apparently got along pretty well at one point. When we travel back to the present, Tizzie shows up just in time to save Hannah from an arrow with her name on it, make a D&D quip, and kick some ass with her former pal in a two mage combination spell called Death Shower. Tizzie i…