Raven’s Children #8
This is kind of like a review for the last three issues (6-8), so bear with me. This universe of hers is really starting to come together. The only real problem I had before was that some of the characters kind of ran together in my head, probably because I read the issues as they came out and there wasn’t enough space to properly give them each their own identity yet. These three solve that problem nicely, as chunks of time are given to a lot of the characters and I’m finally starting to get a real feel (I think) for what’s going on. A complaint, or suggestion maybe, would be to not put different storylines on the same page. #7 had a chunk where the top part would be dialogue between two characters, establishing motivation for both, while the bottom part would be two completely different characters and what they were up to. It was a bit disconcerting and I just read one bit and then the other after a while, but maybe my short attention span is the problem here and nothing else. This story takes patience, there’s no doubt about that, but the rewards for that patience are already starting to come. It’s not like I read a lot of fantasy comics regularly, but this is the best one I know of currently going. Check out her website to see what her schedule is like and get the first book to see if this is for you.
