Dishonored: Peeress and the Price Vol. 1: The Peeress and the Prince

by Michael Moreci, Andrea Olimpieri (Illustrator), Mattia Iacono (Colorist)

Set in the world of the smash-hit videogame!Set after Dishonored 2, our story sees Emily Kaldwin return to Dunwall for an adventure with Corvo Attano.

Genres: Graphic Novels

64 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2018

About the author

Michael Moreci is a bestselling comics author and novelist. His original works include the space adventure novels Black Star Renegades and We Are Mayhem, as well as the comic series Wasted Space, The Plot, Hexagon, Curse, Archangel 8, and more. The Plot appeared on numerous best of 2019 lists, and Wasted Space has been hailed as one of the best comics of the past decade. Moreci's comic trilogy Roche Limit was called one of the best sci-fi comics of all-time by Paste Magazine, and Black Star Renegades was an Audie Award finalist for best sci-fi of 2018.

Moreci has also written for Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and the DC universe--including the YA graphic novel The Lost Carnival: A Dick Grayson Story. He's also adapted Eoin Colfer's bestselling Artemis Fowl series into graphic novels.

He lives outside Chicago with his family.

Reviews

[Bluebelle-the-Inquisitive (Catherine) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This will not be an easy life. You will always be faced with challengers who think they can rule better than you""Or worse, you'll have to deal with people who simply want to burn the empire to the ground for no reason other than to watch the flames.""You'll always be looking over your shoulder, Emily. You'll always have enemies though I don't care to admit it.""But I know you can handle it, no one is better prepared then you are.""No One. — Corvo Attano

Enter the strong and fierce Empress Emily.

As with the previous volume you can read this without playing Dishonored it just doesn't make as much sense. Given we now have Empress Emily it is set after Dishonored 2. Emily's dealing with an uprising against her monarchy. I love watching Emily show the skills impressed on her by both her mother and her father.

This comic has some wonderful lighting it moves between yellows and blues. There is brilliant shadowing. And the effort put into the colouring of the clothes in well appreciated. Could it have been better, probably but it was capitalising on popularity at the time. It mostly avoids game spoilers from what I can tell, that to me is important.

Also I want to share a video from Outside Xbox, they are playing Dishonored 2. It features the immortal quote "you couldn't let, it alone and now you're on fire."

A representative gif:

[A M H · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the dark brutality of what happens in the city of Dunwall, and the art aesthetic matched it's grim tone well. I also liked the concept of the new characters and the tiny bits of new fascinating lore they bring, but I wish they would have been fleshed out more. The plotline was intriguing, though I also wish we saw the aftermath unravel better than the quick wrap up ending. It would be cool if this had more follow up issues.

Overall, it was interesting for the short little adventure that it was.

[Phillip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yay

A good quick story from the universe of dishonored. The only thing I didn't like was flipping the pages right to left. That was a little weird for me, but I understand it is a viable way for comics to turn so... Other than that really liked it.

[ellis · Rating 5 out of 5]

neat follow up to dh2 with super stylized art.