Hugos 2022: Monstress: The Vow by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Monstress, Volume Six: The Vow

Collection published: 2021
Contents published: 2020-21
Acquired: April 2022
Read: May 2022

Writer: Marjorie Liu

Artist: Sana Takeda
Lettering & Design: Rus Wooton

Another year of voting in the Hugo Awards, another volume of Monstress. This collects two issues of the Talk-Stories miniseries and #31-35 of the regular series. The two Talk-Stories issues are pretty good, nice little snapshots of two of our protagonists before the war; I especially liked the one about Kippa the fox arcanic, of course. But then we're back to the regular series, and unlike volumes four and five which kind of worked, this one is again an aimless blob of confusing politics, overcomplicated mythology, and too many characters. When this series is over, maybe I'll reread the whole thing in one go and like it more then, but for now, I really need to give up on it.