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Rat Queens Volume 5 The Colossal Magic Nothing Kurtis J Wiebe Owen Gieni Books

*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 issues sees the Rat Queens fighting a giant hypnotoad and…haven’t we seen this before? The greatest weakness of the comic is that it isn’t super interested in doing new things. The hypnotoad sequence ends with Betty the smidgen thief licking it. I know that Betty’s impulsivity (and drug use) are basic character traits, but to make such a stupid decision so important to the rest of the comic grates.

The rest of the volume gets into the titular The Colossal Magic Nothing. I won’t get into it, because there is no way to explain it that makes sense and isn’t spoilery. With the big reveal at the end, I see what Wiebe was doing, but it winds up being a disjointed mess. I like the idea, but the execution leaves much to be desired.

The artwork is good, with some cool visuals, but I wasn’t a big fan of the intentionally simplistic style adopted for some of the flashbacks and surreal sequences.


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Rat Queens Volume 5 The Colossal Magic Nothing Kurtis J Wiebe Owen Gieni Books Reviews

A good series.
Rat Queens continues to be the BEST ensemble book on the market. This volume is heavy on the Orc Dave backstory and pulls at a few heartstrings before diving right back into one of the funniest storylines of the series that stems from licking a frog and I'll just leave it at that. Great book!
It was confusing towards the midddle, as I didn't know where the story was going. But the ending made some things clear. You should read the previous books before jumping into this one.
This volume teaches the Rat Queens about the consequences of their previous actions. Each queen gets their own story and moment to shine. While I enjoyed the character development, I am not sure what effects, if any, this will have on later stories. The ending left me confused about what had just happened until I re-read the title and decided a colossal magic nothing just happened.
I have been following Rat Queens since volume 1 and I am finding that the storyline is so random and disjointed that it is like badly written fanfiction - and the art varies between excellent and terrible. This volume has some good storytelling and backstory and then heads off into a mess where it seems that the writers are trying to be cleverer in their storytelling than the reader wants or needs - and/or than they are capable of telling. Hopefully Volume 6 gets better - but the series has been so uneven that I have no clue. Maybe they are writing the plots using random rolls of dice ?
Gah this story has turned into a hot tangled mess. And I understand that is not my story but I’m just not enjoying Rat Queens anymore. Which sucks because I LOVED vol 1 n 2 until I found out who did the art. Honestly this volume was just hard to read because of spoiler plot devices which made for a lot of “wtf is going on narratively” moments. It made it hard to enjoy the times where the Queens were being their awesome selfs and than not for plot purposes. I don’t how to describe it. Like obviously the story is serialized but it stopped feeling that way at the end of vol 3. How everything’s tied together in vol 5 is unsatisfiying to me, and still leaves us with a lot of questions. I just don’t know if I care enough to find out anymore.
One of the oddest moments in the ongoing Rat Queens series is, without a doubt, the abrupt ending to volume three that separates magical half-demon Hannah from the rest of the group and her friends. The volume ended on a bizarrely depressing note and (aside from a single issue in #16 which is not included in any of the trade volumes) was immediately ignored and seemingly retconned out of the series in volume four. The series is at its best when it mixes drama with over the top humor and the soft reboot of volume four was a great way to reestablish that tone. Creator Kurtis Wiebe has said that volume three is still canon, but it was hard to see how... until now. The amazing new volume manages to redeem the seemingly weak link volume of the series by showing how the team managed to "save" Hannah from her dark fate, while also opening the door to some amazing new potential arcs. The book at first seems to be going down a similar dark and depressing turn (including a new villain who seemingly wipes characters out of existence) but the twist ending is a gut punch that shows how good Wiebe is with these characters. Owen Gieni remains a spectacular artist for this series (especially with all the past turn overs and behind the scenes issues with past contributors), especially during the sequences when the Queens start to trip and the art shifts styles to match their hallucinations.
*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 issues sees the Rat Queens fighting a giant hypnotoad and…haven’t we seen this before? The greatest weakness of the comic is that it isn’t super interested in doing new things. The hypnotoad sequence ends with Betty the smidgen thief licking it. I know that Betty’s impulsivity (and drug use) are basic character traits, but to make such a stupid decision so important to the rest of the comic grates.

The rest of the volume gets into the titular The Colossal Magic Nothing. I won’t get into it, because there is no way to explain it that makes sense and isn’t spoilery. With the big reveal at the end, I see what Wiebe was doing, but it winds up being a disjointed mess. I like the idea, but the execution leaves much to be desired.

The artwork is good, with some cool visuals, but I wasn’t a big fan of the intentionally simplistic style adopted for some of the flashbacks and surreal sequences.