![]() It’s part of Maika’s plan: to get face to face with a powerful matriarchal head-witch who can tell her more about the fate of her mother.Īrcanics are not seen as human, and while some of them have animal aspects like a fox tail or bird wings, they are people. ![]() In the aftermath of a terrible war between the non-magical Human Federation, and the shamanistic “Arcanics”, the arcanic Maika is taken as a slave girl, and is sold to an institution of sadistic witch-nuns on the wrong side of the border. ![]() No, we start right in the middle of a very dangerous mission. Maika, a young woman, is the main character and the story does not start, as so many epic fantasies do, with some slow kitchen-boy (or maid, in this case) to hero journey. A very popular comic, having won multiple Hugo awards. Monstress is a full-blown fantasy epic, set in a complex secondary world of roughly renaissance or early modern times, and full of arcane magic. A review of Book One, which comprises Volumes 1-3, or Issues 1-18 ![]()
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