She Said Destroy #4 Review

Words: Joe Corallo / Art: Liana Kangas / Colors: Rebecca Nalty / Letters: Melanie Ujimori / Vault Comics The battle has already started being waged planet side, and the line has been drawn on where the loyalties lay. Brigid is keen not on just an invasion but an annihilation of The Fey. The witches ain’t going out without a fight. With skirmishes going on here and there, there’s a breakdown in communication in the ranks of the coven of The Morrigan.

With the art is more consistent, more polished it keeps my eyes focused on the awe of magic and starships and open space and the battle raging that moves past the battlefield, into the hearts of those doing the bidding of their goddesses. The merging of The Morrigan and Brigid and their chosen avatars, Wiona and Vrixton, is an interesting development, and one that I hope pans out in the long run as the writing, while it has some interesting themes to play up–religion, devotion, defining duty and agency-has struggled to keep my attention. What I did like this issue was the focus emphasizing the crumbling of leadership for The Fey’s coven. The line Raul has of “Is Wiona supposed to be our savior or yours?” sparks an interesting moment when challenging the elders comes with expectations, with a question that I, as a reader had.

So with issue four of this series, I’m reading along and thinking about what has been working and what isn’t. What has worked: the initial premise, the coloring and lettering and until last issue, the art h…