You've Heard 'Monstress' Is Great. But Just How Great Is It?
Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's epic, gorgeous tale of a young woman with a monster inside her has won countless awards and been heaped with praise — but does it truly break new ground?
Let's get one thing straight: Monstress, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's wildly successful graphical epic, is great. Yep, "great" is definitely the word to use. No, brilliant. Brilliant, that's what Monstress is ... or is it?
You'd think it would be nice sometimes to have the chance to assess, not just whether a work is great, but precisely what degree of perfection it attains. But since nothing between the covers of is merely "nice" is so assured, elegant and beautifully drawn that it practically compels acclaim. Not surprisingly, it's piled up a stack of awards — including five Eisners last year — and critics have almost uniformly celebrated it.
