Mythic is just super fun. An ordinary guy discovers that there is a super secret agency responsible for policing and cleaning up magical disturbances. There's an immortal seer named Cassandra, a Native American Shaman who's twin brother is a hell beast, a fertility goddess, and that's just for starters. The whole lot is led by a gigantic baby who is. you know, life itself. They're generally pretty competent and good at sorting out all the problems. I mean, Nate's first job on the team is helping a couple of elemental beings through some couples counselling so that it will stop a drought. Because, of course it does. The elementals get it on, it rains, they all have drinks.
The big problem is that all these mythic being, mythic wars, mythic problems are all just so irrational. And there is a force at work that is willing to go to war, to mix magic and machines in order to take out all the magical beings. They even take all the mythical figures prophesied to end the world in Ragnarok and turn them into magic/ machine hybrids. As you do.
Volume one is issue 1-8. I'm hoping that there will be more. It's clever, gory, funny, and a 7/10 for me.
Now, Monstress was actually a bit of a mistake. I thought that all of the issues for the first TPB has been released and I WAS WRONG! Enter tears and trauma.
However, It's brilliant. It gets described as steampunk kaiju, which is pretty apt. It's so much more though. It has a fantastically feminist dealio going on, It's kind of an alterno history with a matriarchal as well as a magical twist. The idea is that The Ancients are immortal, all powerful, god-like beings. Whilst living amongst the humans, they, umm, made babies with said humans. Thus was born the Arcanic's, who are monstrous, and beautiful, and powerful, and scary, sometimes winged, clawed, furred, and sometimes human-looking. Which the humans find scarier. Of course there was a huge war.
Then, of course, there arose a religious order of scary freaking nuns with psychic powers known as the Cumaea. SCARY NUNS! SCARY PSYCHIC NUNS. Who capture Arcanics and torture and experiment on them for their intrinsic magic, which they distil as "lilium" and use to improve their own powers. Gross. I mean they, and their brutal, all-female, soldiers seem to think that they're doing their duty to save the humans from the evil Arcanics, but......UGH.
Enter crippled, mysterious, teenage Arcanic, Maiko, who has herself sold to the evil Cumaea in order to discover the truth about herself, her mother, and about the strange demonic power living inside her.
Extra feminist points for the demons, ghost demons, living demons, and the one living inside Maiko having that monstrous-feminine, vagina dentata (I love you Barbara Creed, and one day I will sneak into your film studies lectures, 'kay) bodily horror of the power of female genitalia.
(Extra points also for the multiple-tailed, talking cats who consider themselves the children of the gods.)
Tentative 7,5/10. TBD once I read the final part of the story arc (grumble, grumble...)
Last up, Luminae. I wanted to love it. A group of mystical female warriors? Check. A strange, female, messiah who must be protected at all costs? Check. An evil darkness infiltrating and hunting them throughout the lands? Check,
Incredible beautiful and detailed art work that you could just stare at? Check. Coherent storyline? Depth of character? Logical worldbuilding?
Not really. 4/10. Which makes me feel like a bitch "sigh"
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