11/24/17 - ON SALE for $3.99: http://amzn.to/2zjQSN0Reviewed by: Rabid ReadsThere's a special kind of chaos that went into the creation of PRETTY DEADLY. The installments begin from the POV of a bunny and a butterfly and are told with fable-like flair, but as the main characters are human, there's a significance to our animal narrators that isn't immediately understood. I say "understood" b/c there's a lot that is never explained, just implied. Combine that with the maelstrom of image...

A bit hard to follow. The art was nice to look at though.Reread: THE story was a bit easier to follow 2nd time around. I'm still not sure it's good. The art is still pretty.

Death's heir is nearing the throne in the wild west. Carnage ensues. A tad convoluted but beautiful all the same. This definitely feels like a prequel. Story: 3Art: 5

I wanted to like it, but the story was all over the place and the art was very confusing for me in a lot of panels. Maybe it was because I read it digitally, but some of the action scenes were just too hard to understand.My overall impression was that the whole thing was cluttered with feathers.If you like metaphorical shit and your stories don't need to make sense?This will be your jam.I mean, the issues are narrated by a dead rabbit and his BFF the butterfly. Because?I don't fucking know.What'...

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Second in my lineup of Keith Reads All The Image, I went for Pretty Deadly. The first time I read it I realized by the second chapter that I had absolutely no idea what was happening, and by the fourth chapter I decided I was just going to have to slog through it to get the beats down, and read it a second time.It mostly made sense on the second read, but I'm still baffled by the book's existence in these perilous times. Perhaps the point is stronger right now because I just came off Matt Fracti...

Incredible artwork, but very confusing story.

Err… What the hell what that? Apart from a deadly pretentious, deadly uninteresting, deadly boring piece of utter confusion? I don't read many comics so I might have missed something here. Something that might have helped me understand why so many reviewers rave about Pretty Deadly. Some critics think it is "grand and majestic," others mention how "dark, alluring and original" it is. And you know what, I think that's the problem right there: this comic tries too hard. It tries too hard to be ori...

”Book, you have the right to a speedy trial” review! THE DEFENSE- Interesting cast of characters. When the embodiment of Death is one of the less notable players in a story, you know you're reading about an interesting bunch. From perky and charming Sissy to unflinching and rugged Fox, there were a lot of distinct personalities on display. And while the main cast was fun to read about, there were some compelling antagonists as well, like Deathface Ginny, a ghost story come to life, and Alice, a

Today, on a whim, I devoured this first volume of a female created black fantasy-western hybrid, I revelled in it's often incredible and evocative artwork and became engrossed in it's narrative despite being unsure of exactly what was happening until almost the final pages when things tied together in a remarkable and hugely impressive manner. The whole time I was thinking to myself how my friend who only loves Gaiman would be hugely impressed and that if Ennis could scale back the gross humour

Absolutely brilliant storytelling and mind-blowing art combine to make a story that you'll want to read again the instant you finish it.

More reviews (and no fluff) on the blog http://surrealtalvi.wordpress.com/ Pretty Deadly is a lyrical, fairytale type of story set in the Old West but firmly rooted in folklore and fables. Seemingly disparate threads slowly converge as the story unfolds, creating a mersmerizing story of love and loss. This is another great example of how graphic novels are a true artform - iillustrations furthering story, with each working together to create a unique and distinct tale.Story: A butterfly and

MINOR SPOILERS INCLUDEDWhen it comes to stories about the American Wild West whether factual for fictionalised, one of the most interesting traits about this period is how it can be interpreted by any media from the clean shaven cowboys from John Ford’s films, the ultraviolence of Sam Peckinpah, to the spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone. However, there are also the mashups with the Western genre being merged with another genre, whether it’s sci-fi i.e. Cowboys & Aliens and Westworld, or in the c...

Pretty Deadly Volume 1 should come with a beret, it’s so art school-y. Writing-wise that is as, while Kelly Sue DeConnick’s writing and storytelling is dull and pretentious, Emma Rios and Jordie Bellaire bring their A-game to the art. Pretty Deadly’s a western set sometime in 19th century America during the frontier days but the story is heavy on the magical realism/mythologising brand of storytelling that makes it feel like a fable of sorts. And that’s what the first volume is, very broadly: th...

Pretty Deadly reinvents the spaghetti western as feminist, artsy, often experimental, surreal, metaphorically charged sub-genre that is a far cry from your typical contemporary superhero story. It’s a unique reading experience: unnecessarily difficult in places (though it did not feel pretentious to me), but also rewarding in poetic and subversive ways that are a rare treat in popular culture. Oh, and the collaboration between writer Kelly Sue DeConnick & artist Emma Rios is officially the most

Bullet Review:Very different from any other comic I've read. Probably most like Vaughan's Saga if anything. Cross-genre with vivid art but the story is more than slightly confusing. It took me quite some time to realize that the Bunny at the beginning DIES and becomes a skeleton. In fact, there are a LOT of panels I had to read and reread before I "got" it or gave up.That said, the characters were cool (TONS of women), and I am interested enough to check out Volume 2.UPDATED: On Second Thought,

I went back and reread this after so many others raved about it, but I still found this an incoherent mess of story and art. A lot of people love Emma Rios's art in this, but I found the action scenes to be a blurry jumble of images. I hate the trend of these small panels in action scenes. You can't tell what's going on in any of them. I think it's a crutch for artists who can't portray art in larger scenes more than anything innovative. As far as the story goes, it's the classic Death falls in

There is A LOT of weird stuff going on in Pretty Deadly, Volume 1: The Shrike; from a skeleton bunny narration to a butterfly…..Skel-a-bunny!!! (if you know me, you know I have an obsession with skele-creatures – Not like Kelly does but so few can rank with her, really – and one of my all time favourite artists is Chiara Bautista for this exact reason.)(This isn't a Bautista piece, to be clear, it's just a google search that I liked) Anyways, so this story is kind of all over the map really. The...

OK, seriously...what the fuck was that?"So Ms. DeConnick, what exactly were you hoping to accomplish here? Did you have a plot or plan for this to make more sense? Was there a reason for things?" "I see. Butterfly and a dead bunny? Care to elaborate on the symbolism you've used here for our narrator(s)?" "So...that's a no then? MMMkay. Moving right along...can you explain to us the origins of Johnny Coyote and how he fits in with Big Alice, Ginny, Sissy, and Death?" "OK. Sorry...guess it's a sec...

This is a story about Death, a story told by the skeleton of a rabbit to a butterfly.So yeah, it's kind of a weird book.Going in, that weirdness appealed to me. The idea of a fantastical, western-themed fable is still interesting to me. And the book is at its best when DeConnick stays on that mythic level. The basic story, as I understand it, makes a sort of fairy tale sense. The bunny's narration pulls it together, for the most part. But there's serious clarity issues. Reading other reviews, I