Raven: The Pirate Princess #3 Review

Writer: Jeremy Whitley / Artists: Rosy Higgins, Ted Brandt / Action Lab Comics WOOOOOOOW. This cover tho. Never a dull moment with this series.

NEVER. A. DULL. MOMENT. YIKES. YIKES. YIKES. This issue begins with another awesome childhood flashback from the verily awesome Raven, who is pirating with her father and is sent on a very, very important part of the mission: to convince someone to come out of the cabin on the ship they’re pillaging. It’s only a job Raven can do and after it’s been done we see how: inside the cabin was a young girl around Raven’s age named Ximena, and through the power of young naivety and friendship they walk out together.

This gives us just the backstory we need on Ximena, who is not only a map maker and navigator, but also someone from Raven’s past that she’s meeting again, and a new character we personally get to meet later in the issue. (On  a side note: can I just say that this this scene wrapped up really nicely because as a woman I can’t imagine that this ended great for women throughout history on either sides of conflict in male-driven war and pillage.) (The reaction picture I didn’t know I needed!) [divider type=”space_thin”] So despite the sweet flashback, butt kicking, and all the fabulous joke territory that we keep cruising through, I keep having to remind myself that Raven is assembling her crew. No, really. She has a first mate. And a ship that she is on a mission to fill with crew mates. And the art stays up the par with the writin…