Paperback, 149 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Image Comics.
Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible threat.
This time with more pirates. What if Lovecraft rewrote the rime of the ancient mariner and wasn't a massive racist? This is a solid second volume and starts to answer some of the questions set out in the first.
The plot keeps moving along with interesting new characters and the existing ones keep getting better developed. Art, as always, is phenomenal.
I find it hard to review graphic novels. The drawing in this one is just so captivating, that I sometimes loose track of the story, which remains quite confusing...
In this one the monster is ever more present. And Kippa is still my favorite. But I have this feeling that thanks to Kippa's unwavering support Maika will prevail... but not all foxes are as nice as Kippa.
Cat necromancers > all :) If nothing else, I am reading this for the cats.
And we get to find out who Tuya is. In a most beautiful drawing, too.
Monstress: The Blood is the second volume of these beautiful comics by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. Maika joins a pirate crew to beg passage to the Island of Bones, with the hopes of learning more about her mother. Obviously, lot's of people still want Maika dead or captured and there's new beasts in the deep. This was more of a straightforward story and wasn't quite as strong as the first but I'm still looking forward to the third instalment later this year.
