The Wicked + The Divine: 1923

by Kieron Gillen

[leahrosereads]

What an incredible one-off(ish). I feel that it provides some background information for a couple of the characters which I think readers of the main arc could benefit from knowing. If the team adds this information into the main arc, this isn't necessary to read, but the main arcs have been relatively slow burns until they're not.

Now that that's out of the way. The mix of prose and traditional comic format was so freaking cool. I've never read anything like it before in the comic world (although I've only read very specific comics since I was 17...so I'm still pretty new to comics). As someone that loves books, this mix was totally my jam.

We met a couple of new gods this time around (Neptune, Amon-Ra, Susanoo) and some of that are samesies as our 2014 gods (Amaterasu, Lucifer, The Morrigan, The Norns), but the personalities were so different. It just shows what? That these gods don't really know their past lives/don't remember them? Or are they different renditions of these gods under the same name every time?

I don't know the answer to most of my questions at any given time for this series. And that's OK. I'm sure there are reddit threads that delve deep into the culture and the foreshadowing and all that jazz, but I prefer to just read and read and read. After this story ends, I'll go back and discover what I've missed then, but right now, I'm just enjoying the ride.