*Sigh* This graphic novel is a hot mess.The first issue focuses on Orc Dave. It is interesting and good worldbuilding, but it is also repetitive and tangential. Why include a flashback at what will be the beginning of a bound volume if it is only relevant to the rest of the volume in the tiniest way? Why not save it until you are actually going to tie it to the main storyline?But, to be honest, I would rather have read more about Orc Dave than the rest of the issues in this volume.The next issue...

Yeah.. I do need more of this.And the sad thing is, I DO need the artwork to be the RAT QUEENS artwork. I can't get used to any other artwork than the one that the series started with and that sucks.

3.5*I was originally done with this series but on re read this was much better.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I really enjoyed Rat Queens Volumes 1 & 2. With volume 3, "Demons," the series unfortunately took a hard and fast turn for the worse. The Mage University storyline ended on a cliffhanger, with Hannah in a "void prison" and the Queens broken up. Volume 4 disregarded all of this in favor of a soft reboot that restarted the storyline and characters. Yet Kurtis J. Wiebe kept insisting the events in "Demons" were still canon, and promised to address them. Now he has, a...

This series has gotten progressively worse as a title for me personally. It looks like there are some folks out there still enjoying it, but not as many as those who also share my opinion. Just look at the progression of the cover art for these volumes and you can see the slid into obscurity happen. These are the frustrated ramblings of someone who wholly bought in with volumes 1 and 2 and couldn't wait to see what was going to happen with this awesome, offbeat cast of characters. Then, "After a...

Has anyone ever asked you to calculate the square root of 743 in your head? If so, then the look on your face at that moment is an accurate reflection of the look on mine when I read this (though to be fair, I get the same look when someone asks me what I had for breakfast this morning or what my name is…my brain really doesn’t work these days). While the Queens themselves are as fun as ever and Gieni’s art is beautiful, I was utterly perplexed by the storyline in this collection (both in terms

I hate to give this such a low rating but this is honestly a mess. I feel like the series just hasn't been as good since the hiatus and at this point I don't even really know what's supposed to be going on. There's a super complicated plot with what I would kind of call time-travel but is mostly different potential timelines I guess. It seems like every scene is getting re-written immediately after it happens and that is honestly my least favorite kind of story. Also there's some weird one page

Wiebe does his own version of Crisis on Infinite Earths to try to clean up the mess he left at the end of his first Rat Queens series. And he just makes everything worse. So much worse.He might be better off if he stuck to shorter and more humorous stories and stopped trying to make this an epic adventure series.Or maybe after the next volume, he could just let the letterer take over writing the book so he can go start a Saga knock-off?!?!

Unfortunately this newest installment Rat Queens is my least favorite of the series so far. I don't know about you, but I was so confused for at least half of it and I didn't care for the art as much overall. Though I have to admit I did appreciate the changes in the art for the trippy scene to rescue Jason and for the flashback.

This was awful. Super confusing time-travel plot and disjointed in art style too. I think I’m done with this series.

Some evil mage is erasing people from existence for some reason. Also: how orcs procreate! Hmm. So it’s been a couple years (or a billion quadrillion years in internet time!%^8!) since I last read Rat Queens and unfortunately it’s not improved. The subtitle is quite apt - this book is one big.... magic! I mean nothing! I do mean nothing, don’t I… (harps)... Huh? Oh yeah. This thing. Sigh… the Orc Dave Special was really tedious especially if you don’t give a crap about the character like me. Get...

Rat Queens Series Ratings:Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery: ★★★★★Rat Queens, Vol. 2: The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth: ★★★★★Rat Queens, Vol. 3: Demons: ★★★★Rat Queens, Vol. 4: High Fantasies: ★★★★Rat Queens Vol. 5: The Colossal Magic Nothing: ★★★— I was confused the entire time ✌🏻__│Blog│Instagram│Twitter│Tumblr│

I’m still having a hard time with these newer incarnations as they try to reconcile the old storyline with new one. It still feels a bit disjointed to me, but even really contorted storyline Rat Queens is still Rat Queens.

Honestly for half this volume I was just like, wtf is going on? I think Wiebe is trying to tie up what happened at the end of vol 3 but it was so long ago I read it I had kind of forgotten what had happened. There are multiple timelines going on with multiple versions of the same character which just makes for a very confusing story. I love these characters but this was not my favourite installment. I hope things are cleared upon the next one. I don't really care about this weird evil timeline I...

Midway through this volume, we finally start to see why there was such a jarring shift in reality between the cliffhanger end of Vol. 3 and the "soft reboot" of Vol. 4. I understand why some readers fell off from the series, but personally I found this volume successful in its attempt to create continuity, albeit through some reality-bending timey-wimey nonsense one would expect to find in an X-Men book more than in the DnD-adjacent world of Rat Queens. Still, the characters are fucking fantasti...

Personal rating: 2.75I really enjoyed the first half but the second half was a clusterfuck.. the story tried to reconnect and salvage what happened in volume 3 but I found it to be unsuccessful. Not only did this force the plot to have to jump into weird time paradoxes but the art also kept changing. It’d go from normal, to trippy cartoon, to 80’s He-Man. It made me feel very detached.The only way that I feel this graphic novel series can be successful is if it just went back to the good ol’ day...

The first two stories weren’t bad (I love Orc Dave and Betty), but the last storyline that finished the volume with Hannah in banishment bounced around a lot and had very inconsistent artwork. It was too trippy, I’d prefer a smoother storyline. However, the cliffhanger ending will make me pick up the next volume...

2.5...what just happened?

What a wreck. Something is erasing characters from existence, Dee uses her Cthulhu deity to go back in time, and the newly freed Cthulhu deity is wreaking havoc across the multiverse. So the reader is left with multiple alternate realities and chronologies that are indistinguishable from one another or partially superimposed on one another, or maybe they were just tossed together in a wok and served randomly into the pages of volume 5. It's as unnecessarily confusing as the 17th season of LOST.M...

What a cluster fuck this was. This series went way downhill and I’m really sad about it. It started off so promising. I know there is a new author and new illustrator for Vol. 7 but idk if I can make it that far. 😂