An ancient battle of the sexes has raged for centuries, but a strange calm has befallen the age-old conflict as of late. How were the witches subdued, and what will happen when they remember how to wield their true power?
The war went on for centuries--on one side, a coven of perpetually reincarnating witches, dedicated to cultivating their otherworldly abilities and guarding their independence; on the other, an all-male conspiracy of witch hunters known as the Architects, determined to put an end to the power of their nigh-immortal adversaries for good. Neither could land a decisive blow and the result was stalemate.
Until 2005, when everything changed.
Now, coven leader Isadora is a happy wife with a happy life in a cozy, quiet cul-de-sac in the town of Desert Canyon. She has no recollection of her many past lives; no memory of her membership in an ancient order of necromancers; no reminders of the endless war it waged; and no idea of the power that she and the other housewives of Desert Canyon possess.
But you can't keep a good witch down--and these ladies are the best. Once they find out the truth about their white-picket prison, the men that they thought they knew are going to have hell to pay.
Writer Ben Blacker and artist Mirka Andolfo weave a spellbinding story of sex, sorcery, and supernatural liberation with Hex Wives, collecting all six issues of the acclaimed DC Vertigo miniseries.
Warnings: Animal death I went into this series expecting something really interesting. So far there’s been a lot of slow buildup, which is fine. I keep feeling like they’re going to have to give us more soon. And in all fairness, they did give us more to chew on in this issue. A lot more. I’m just not sure how I feel about it. Based on the implications in the first issue, combined with things seen here, I think it’s safe to say that most of us can guess what’s happening here. We don’t know the specifics, certainly. But we do know how it’s surely going to end. I probably would have liked this issue more, if not for the ending. I get what they were going for, but it just left a sour feeling in my stomach.
