Status Updates From Pretty Deadly, Vol. 3: The Rat

I loved this book so much! I honestly hope that it’d be collected in a deluxe or an oversized edition (I’d totally get that!). I love this story and world a lot it’d be a crime not to own a physical copy of it.

“That’s the trouble with happy endings, isn’t it? They’re more like beginnings.”

“There’s more to a story than how it ends. This world ain’t a tidy place.”

“We do well for ourselves when we do well for others.”

A SHORT STORY IN AN ANTHOLOGY!!!! I almost missed it oh my god!!!! I knew the writer had said that Alice’s origin story would be a three-ish issues but I didn’t expect it to be released in an image anthology!!!! I can’t wait to read it.

I enjoyed reading the essays in this issue and the one before it. Samantha Cross’ essays/analysis of the story were so interesting to me. Now I’ll go and look for any news regarding the next volume.

Can I just say how much I love the character designs? They’re so good. Especially Sissy as Death! Her design is wonderful! And all of the 3 reapers too: the reaper of hunger, the reaper of thirst, and the reaper of obsession. I love how different and diverse their shapes (and shadows) are! So cool!

I love this so, so much. I’ve enjoyed reading Clara’s story, the decision to make her the narrator in the final issue was so clever. I can’t wait for the next volume, it’s going to be good. I don’t understand Ginny’s obsession with Alice, I have a feeling that there’s something more to it that whatever we saw at the story. Did Alice train her? How did they meet? I have a lot of questions.

I think this might be my favorite volume so far. It’s so good! (Or I might’ve become attached to these characters over the course of reading this story, who knows?) I don’t want to finish reading this volume (BUT I MUST) I can’t wait for the next one to come out.

I love the pink coloring of that issue, so good!

I love the covers in this volume. They’re different, but so eerie and pretty!

I love reading the artist(Emma Rios)’s notes. Her composition and panel work are divine! I wish I could be at her level one day, she’s really inspiring!

I LOVE THIS! I wonder where Alice is. I love Ginny so much. She’s great.

Knowing that Pretty Deadly is planned to be a five-volume (if not more) series makes me so happy!!!! And volume four, titled “The Butterfly” is planned to be an Alice origin story?! I’m so excited for that! And volume five, titled “the rabbit” is planned to be the final arc and wrap up all the three narrative levels—the Fields’ family, the Reapers, and Bones Bunny and Butterfly.

Not Clara too! Her stories were (/are) very interesting, I wonder if there is a clue to whatever happened to her hidden in them. I like Frank though.