the wicked the divine volume 2 fandemonium

In terms of the artwork, I think it has improved since Rapunzel’s Revenge.They’re bad guys, they’re horrible, they eat people - and our heroes are out to stop them and save the city! The giants, the villains of the story (as well as some random, frightening ant people), were pretty despicable and one-dimensional. I enjoyed the steam-punk and western flair of these graphic novels, although Calamity Jack takes place in an industrial city run-over and being run by giants.Rapunzel’s still being absolutely bad-ass here, but this is Jack’s time to shine, and we get a surprising amount of backstory regarding him. Jack seems more of an intimate character than Rapunzel does, back in Rapunzel’s Revenge.

It’s a creative take on the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale, and focuses a lot on Jack’s inner conflict about being a “good” guy when he thinks he’s “bad”, and his insecurities and moral questionings. In Calamity Jack, it is our prankster and thief Jack who takes center stage with Rapunzel as his backup.With help from Rapunzel (and her trusty braids), a pixie from Jack’s past, and a man with inventions from the future, they just might out-swindle the evil giants and put his beloved city back in the hands of good people ….while catapulting themselves and readers into another fantastical adventure. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler…maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying beanstalk. Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind…with an unfortunate amount of bad luck.

The wicked the divine volume 2 fandemonium