Pretty Deadly #2
Like reading poetry, Pretty Deadly is still just as beautiful, but no less complicated. Intricate and perplexing characters all connected together to weave a gorgeous and fantastic story.
Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Artist: Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire
Cover: Emma Rios
Publisher: Image
Pretty Deadly is a complicated story, but beautifully told. There’s an air about it that teases us, the more we read it, we might have the story revel itself more to us, but it never does. Not yet, maybe not ever, but that’s half the magic of it.
It’s not a straightforward story and it’s not for everyone but it’s beautiful to those who keep an open mind to it and accept it for what it is. Like an exploration through a dream world, you don’t know all the characters right away, some will always stay mysterious, some will tell their story, and even when certain points seem so disjointed from each other they’re all part of the same dream.
Rios and Bellaire are a perfect combination to tell such a story as well and compliment DeConnick’s prose in a way that is unmatched. It’s clear that everyone involved in the issues put their heart into the telling of it, and it shows. Rios’ characters with so many different facial expressions, to their bodies as well, a more curvy and sensual lady, or a larger intimidating woman, or a solid woman who doesn’t take a fight from anyone. Even through the art these characters are slowly revealing their stories with each unveiling. Not to mention Bellaire’s soft, muted, colours that give it that dream-like, fantasy, with a touch of western, feel to it; very otherworldly.
There’s a delicate balance that Pretty Deadly has found and it’s that balance that makes it so compelling. From the first issue I thought I knew what I needed to about Ginny, Death’s daughter, or even Big Alice as she goes chasing trouble, but I was proven wrong. We don’t know these characters just quite, not yet, and they’ll continue to surprise us. What is the story of Sissy, or Big Alice, or Ginny, and this ethereal world they live in? For as little as we know, a story is still being told. It’s a story that’s written in between the lines it seems, between what the characters do and say, it’s all leading somewhere and I can’t wait to find out.
I won’t pretend that I fully understand the story of Pretty Deadly, and can admit that it takes me about two or three read-throughs before I’m even half prepared to try and review it, but with each read-through it’s like learning a new experience within the story and unveiling a new layer to the story, and that’s probably my most favourite aspect of Pretty Deadly so far, it’s never a boring read.
Writer: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Artist: Emma Rios, Jordie Bellaire
Cover: Emma Rios
Publisher: Image
Pretty Deadly is a complicated story, but beautifully told. There’s an air about it that teases us, the more we read it, we might have the story revel itself more to us, but it never does. Not yet, maybe not ever, but that’s half the magic of it.
It’s not a straightforward story and it’s not for everyone but it’s beautiful to those who keep an open mind to it and accept it for what it is. Like an exploration through a dream world, you don’t know all the characters right away, some will always stay mysterious, some will tell their story, and even when certain points seem so disjointed from each other they’re all part of the same dream.
Rios and Bellaire are a perfect combination to tell such a story as well and compliment DeConnick’s prose in a way that is unmatched. It’s clear that everyone involved in the issues put their heart into the telling of it, and it shows. Rios’ characters with so many different facial expressions, to their bodies as well, a more curvy and sensual lady, or a larger intimidating woman, or a solid woman who doesn’t take a fight from anyone. Even through the art these characters are slowly revealing their stories with each unveiling. Not to mention Bellaire’s soft, muted, colours that give it that dream-like, fantasy, with a touch of western, feel to it; very otherworldly.
There’s a delicate balance that Pretty Deadly has found and it’s that balance that makes it so compelling. From the first issue I thought I knew what I needed to about Ginny, Death’s daughter, or even Big Alice as she goes chasing trouble, but I was proven wrong. We don’t know these characters just quite, not yet, and they’ll continue to surprise us. What is the story of Sissy, or Big Alice, or Ginny, and this ethereal world they live in? For as little as we know, a story is still being told. It’s a story that’s written in between the lines it seems, between what the characters do and say, it’s all leading somewhere and I can’t wait to find out.
I won’t pretend that I fully understand the story of Pretty Deadly, and can admit that it takes me about two or three read-throughs before I’m even half prepared to try and review it, but with each read-through it’s like learning a new experience within the story and unveiling a new layer to the story, and that’s probably my most favourite aspect of Pretty Deadly so far, it’s never a boring read.
A Look Inside
