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Rat Queens Volume 1: Sass & Sorcery Paperback – April 8, 2014
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- Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they're in the business of killing all god's creatures for profit. It's also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!
- Collecting the first five issues of the sold-out hit series at the special introductory price of $9.99!
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherImage Comics
- Publication dateApril 8, 2014
- Reading age16 years and up
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.4 x 10 inches
- ISBN-101607069458
- ISBN-13978-1607069454
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- If you're looking for an M-rated series that is full of swordplay, sorcery, and sass, and you don't mind a bit of gore thrown in for good measure, you'll love this. Betty, Dee, Hannah, and Violet are mercenaries for hire who can drink a troll under the table, use language that would make an orc blush, and mercilessly eviscerate baddies. Off on a minor "quest" in order to make up for their drunken brawling, this kick-ass quartet soon realizes that someone or something wants them very dead. Making them dead, however, is far easier said than done. It's not just the fantastic pacing of Wiebe's (Peter Panzerfaust, Debris) text or former video game designer Upchurch's blood-sprayed action sequences, but also the characters themselves that drive the story relentlessly forward. Possessed of very different body types, personalities, and idiosyncrasies, and not afraid to share exactly what they're feeling, the Rat Queens are refreshing characters whose story will leave readers thirsty for more. (June) -PublisherWeekly.com
- "Offer this to readers tired of the same old comics featuring cheesecake depictions of female characters or to readers who like intelligent plots with a side of smart aleck." -Booklist
BOOK RIOT -- Rat Queens Vol 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe, Roc Upchurch: A dark comedy centering around 4 women who drink, fight, curse, and go on quests-all while being kick-ass and awesome of course. I wasn't even a few pages in before I was wishing I could be a part of their group which then turned into me imagining all the awesome Halloween/Cosplay costumes to come! I want to tell you my favorite character but I can't choose. I mean I'll choose and then one of the other ladies will say something or do something and I'll pick her instead. So let's say my favorite is Betty, Dee, Hannah, AND Violet. That's my answer and I'm sticking to it. *I feel I must note that while the comic is 100% awesome ladies there has been issues, specifically concerning Upchurch, amongst the creators.
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- If you're looking for an M-rated series that is full of swordplay, sorcery, and sass, and you don't mind a bit of gore thrown in for good measure, you'll love this. Betty, Dee, Hannah, and Violet are mercenaries for hire who can drink a troll under the table, use language that would make an orc blush, and mercilessly eviscerate baddies. Off on a minor "quest" in order to make up for their drunken brawling, this kick-ass quartet soon realizes that someone or something wants them very dead. Making them dead, however, is far easier said than done. It's not just the fantastic pacing of Wiebe's (Peter Panzerfaust, Debris) text or former video game designer Upchurch's blood-sprayed action sequences, but also the characters themselves that drive the story relentlessly forward. Possessed of very different body types, personalities, and idiosyncrasies, and not afraid to share exactly what they're feeling, the Rat Queens are refreshing characters whose story will leave readers thirsty for more. (June) -PublisherWeekly.com
- "Offer this to readers tired of the same old comics featuring cheesecake depictions of female characters or to readers who like intelligent plots with a side of smart aleck." -Booklist
Product details
- Publisher : Image Comics; Illustrated edition (April 8, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1607069458
- ISBN-13 : 978-1607069454
- Reading age : 16 years and up
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.4 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #718,471 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #705 in Contemporary Women Graphic Novels (Books)
- #806 in Image Comics & Graphic Novels
- #2,541 in Fantasy Graphic Novels (Books)
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One of the biggest pros in this comic are the cast of main characters. I really like them all. I wasn't expecting much with some of them, but I really do like them all. Hannah is my favorite so far cause she the bad mouth free speaker type. Dee I would love to know more about because that party scene at the end is so me. Violet seems to me the most likely to be the leader of the group with a hipster quality. And Betty is just the most loveable character you'll ever read, she funny and spunky all rolled into one unicorn-doo. One trait these ladies share is they all can kick some serious ass. My idea of some drinking buddies.
Besides the new best-assembled team I now love, the plot and the art were great too. Not sure how many people watch Steven Universe on Cartoon Network, but it remind me a lot of that show as well. It take the idea of fantasy, but ages it up for people like me who want a little maturity in there reading. Like I like fantasy, but I tend to stay away from D&D or WoW stuff cause it's too over the top for my liking, but this calms it down a bit, adds some beautiful vulgar language, doesn't follow cliché plots, and actually lets women take the center stage.
The art is great as well. I love how he draws close ups of his characters. He makes the background all blurry like a photograph. I just like the character designs as well. No character has the same outfit and they are all colorfully drawn to show how different they are in personality. Dare I say this person can draw blood well too? Yes, this comic is super violet, like Luther Strode, but makes the comic worth reading.
There's a number of readers I'd recommend this too, but the biggest ones are people like me who want to see women in comic be more than the pretty face or the sexy bad guy. I'm very interested to see how far this will go and hope it one hell of a great ride. I think I need a Betty Special now.
Betty, the smidgen and rogue, Dee, the atheist cleric, Hannah, the foul mouthed mage, and Violet, the dwarven warrior, make up the Rat Queens. They are drunken, violent, foul mouthed, and a lot of fun. The art perfectly suits the excellent story that is equal parts fantastic action as it is well crafted, humanizing, character developing moments.The city of Palisade is excellently crafted and filled with interesting, engaging characters of whom you will want to know more of by volumes end. It is the rare series whose ancillary characters endear themselves so quickly, making Rat Queens all the more impressive.
This volume, at the time of writing this, is $8.99 for the five issues currently on the shelf. For such a low price, you get a lot in return. Though I came into this series knowing nothing about it, I can say with total certainty that I would be going to my local comic shop and having it pulled, on top of collecting these excellent collection. A must buy for fantasy fans who don't mind things on the grown up side. A definite buy.
This is easy the best comic I've picked up in the last year. I read this volume, then bought 2 & 3 with one-day shipping. It's that good. I don't want to spoil anything, but the cast is a solid mix, don't even think that all female is gimmick or a ploy, the humor is adult, but it's hilarious and not just raunchy, the art is great, the writing, dialogue, story, the pacing, they are work in sync to produce something so awesome that I really thought that BKV had to have been involved
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A arte é maravilhosa, todos os detalhes sem restrições de censura...*+*
Exatamente o que eu gosto.
Eu sempre busco histórias em que os personagens principais sejam mulheres badass e infelizmente o mercado não é imenso, as histórias tendem a deixar a desejar. Muitas vezes as cenas de ação acabam sendo censuradas, com menores injúrias, nada detalhado...
Essa comic é totalmente diferente. O nível de detalhe nas injúrias e nos quadros de luta são enormes!
Além disso, o que me chamou atenção foi o diálogo entre as personagens. Como título diz, o Sass é o tempero da história.
Enfim...Uma das minhas preferidas comics atualmente.
TL;DR - buy this book if you enjoy strong female characters, magic, graphic violence, sexual innuendo, and creative pairings of swear words.
Contrats, assasins, espionage et beuverie, tout ce qu'il faut pour une bonne journée...