Snow White

Booooooo.

I know ending an epic like this is hard, but it's difficult not to feel a bit short changed. Maybe the next two volumes will make up for it, but as it is this was a disappointing turn of events and the amount of plot devices it depended on was outright farcical. Such a shame to follow up one of the best volumes of the series with this.

Bufkin also feels like he got short shrift, perhaps they just ran out of time to resolve the oz arc in any more detail.

Oh, but the last volume was so good! This one ... isn't. Far too much posturing and arguing about who gets to kill the big baddy. SO MUCH, in fact, that I think we're reading a conservative allegory of some sort, but it's not clear enough what it is, and by the end of the volume I didn't care. GREAT art, as always, but I think Mr. W might be getting tired of writing this.