REVIEW: Once again We return to ‘The Wicked + The Divine #18′
To sum it all up..
After a four month pause in publishing, the The Wicked + The Divine team Gillen and McKelvie are back! With any luck, this will be the last gap in publication for WicDiv. The plan from now on is that there should be something WicDiv coming out every month until we finish the story. -Kieron Gillen Kieron Gillen is […]
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April 29, 2016 by Tonichi Regalado
FULL REVIEW
After a four month pause in publishing, the The Wicked + The Divine team Gillen and McKelvie are back!With any luck, this will be the last gap in publication for WicDiv. The plan from now on is that there should be something WicDiv coming out every month until we finish the story.
-Kieron Gillen
Kieron Gillen is back with Jamie McKelvie’s gorgeous artwork and Matt Wilson on colours. After a successful three runs on The Wicked + The Divine plus an Eisner award, Gillen is ready to get back to basics with this new arc entitled Rising Action. The last arc Commercial Suicide was a venture into a different territory with a mishmash of different artists as well as a plot shift into character-lead experimentation.
As you’ll have seen with the previous page this has a somewhat different tone. I’ve said that Commercial Suicide was the blue period, or Bowie in Berlin. In Rising Action, basically, if something can explode, it will explode. It’s Taylor Swift’s ‘Bad Blood’ video for five issues.
-Kieron Gilllen
Persephone is alive and back with a vengeance, apparently. We get a taste of her new abilities as she takes on Woden, Sakhmet and Ananke herself using her Flower-Death-Goddess powers?
Jamie Mckelvie’s artwork is beautiful as always paired with Matt Wilson’s technicolor. As Kieron previously released, he’s glad that the original team is back together. The plot remains as tight as ever crossing fantasy with a twist of the modern; something that if the The Wicked + The Divine didn’t start, it at least PERFECTED. Issue 18 is chock- full of fantastic panels but this one specifically was sure to cause a riot with fans
Yeah, let that sink in. Well we’ll stop at that last frame and let the fans react (violently and joyfully or maybe a hybrid of the two).
Once Again We Return.
Tonichi Regalado
Tonichi Regalado is a Manila/Tokyo kid. Currently a business major in the business of fun! He's your resident comic book reviewer and feature writer. His secret mutant power: Pag-Ibig. 信仰
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