Some warnings: Rat Queens might not be to your taste if you’re sensitive about gore, crassness, drinking to excess, drugs, and fantasy violence. The secondary characters are also extremely well done: a gentle, giant Orc named Dave who keeps bluebirds in his huge black beard Sawyer, a studly and serious police chief (and POC!) with a weakness for Hannah Betty’s hot kind-of girlfriend Faeyri who sports a classic lesbian haircut, a septum piercing, and a no nonsense attitude and many more! So if you love books where interesting, fleshed-out women get together to use their skills to fight evil, that might be all you need to know to rush out and read this, if you haven’t already.īut there are so many other things to love about this series: the fact that women’s diverse body types are highlighted, the gorgeous gorgeous art, dead-pan and dark humour, satire that at once is affectionate and critical of the fantasy tropes it’s drawing on, deliberate anachronisms, and a decent job featuring people of colour (although, I’d like to see more-Dee is the only Rat Queen who’s not white). That, and their superior skills at kicking ass and killing bad guys is what brings these ladies together. And then there’s Betty, the resident queer and comic relief: she’s a hobbit with blonde dreads who loves candy, being a sneaky sneaky thief, recreational drugs, and booze.Īctually, it’s not just Betty who loves booze: it’s every Rat Queen. Violet is a formerly-bearded dwarf who’s rebelled against her family’s traditions by leaving home and shaving her beard she wields a giant sword skillfully wherever she goes. Then there’s Dee, a quiet, socially awkward atheist who comes from a family and culture that worship a giant squid god she’s got witchy / priestess powers too, but more of the bookish type. You’ve got the leader Hannah, a pale elf with flashy spell-casting powers, a high level of sass, a rockabilly sense of style, a messed-up past, and a penchant for dating the wrong men. So, like Girls and SITC, Rat Queens features a cast of complex, flawed women, all kick-ass in their own way. But it’s also just as rad as you might guess, taking all the awesomeness of Buffy, LOTR, SITC, Tank Girl, Girls, and D & D respectively to concoct something new, like the best mash-up ever. Yes, Rat Queens is as weird as all those comparisons imply. To be honest, the strange pictures you’re probably getting in your head from trying to imagine how all that media could be mixed together in a comic are likely pretty accurate. It’s like Sex and the City meets Lord of the Rings? Dungeons and Dragons mixed with Girls? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tank Girl but set in an timeless, kind of Medieval fantasy world? Wiebe and American illustrators Roc Upchurch and Stjepan Sejic is one of those comics that, when people try to describe it, ends up sounding like the most bizarre combination of the most disparate media you’ve ever heard of.
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