Some evil mage is erasing people from existence for some reason. Also: how orcs procreate!
Hmm. So it’s been a couple years (or a billion quadrillion years in internet time!%^8!) since I last read Rat Queens and unfortunately it’s not improved. The subtitle is quite apt - this book is one big.... magic! I mean nothing! I do mean nothing, don’t I… (harps)...
Huh? Oh yeah. This thing. Sigh… the Orc Dave Special was really tedious especially if you don’t give a crap about the character like me. Get fucked, Orc Dave. And the main story wasn’t much better either. It takes a long, long time to get anywhere and it’s not really worth it. The whole thing gets wrapped up much too easily and the execution was lacking.
Writer Kurtis Wiebe tried to do something clever but it came off as just confusing: characters disappear, then they’re back, then we’re jumping around in time - a-nononoooo. And the humour is so played out. Same dull jokes - oh the girls are bitchy, har har… snore.
And so I find myself saying the same thing I seem to say about most comics being published these days (burp): the art is good, the writing is not! Owen Gieni’s art is skilful, pretty and expressive, and he shows some range with the hallucinatory scene. Good stuff, sir.
But of course most of us read comics for the words as much as the pitchers and Rat Queens, Volume 5: The Colossal Magic Nothing is immensely boring - don’t bother. Image really has become the home of bad fantasy/sci-fi comics, hasn’t it?
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