Pretty Deadly: The Rat #3

Pretty Deadly: The Rat is not only a great continuation of the series, three issues in, I’m ready to call it the best yet. This issue is an immaculate piece of a series that is building a mosaic of poetic bliss. The story at the heart of this comic is lovely, but it’s the heart of this comic that is the real treat. Read Full Review

Pretty Deadly: The Rat is a comic that demands your time. Rushing through this issue, or any of the series so far, seeking out word balloons and plot misses much of what makes this essential reading. Read Full Review

Can we just talk about chapped lips for a second? I know that sounds like a weird thing to hone in on in a comic review, but believe me when I say that the interaction with the Reaper of Thirst had me reaching for the Burt's Bees. You know when an artist excels at their craft when you can physically feel what you see represented on the page in front of you, and the Reaper of Thirst's scraggly, cracked, jagged-skinned lips were giving me an absolutely fervent case of the wibblies. The rest of her was pretty darned creeptastic, but the image of those lips is going to stay with me for a good long time. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to bathe myself in a vat of petroleum jelly and hydrate like there's no tomorrow. Read Full Review