Monstress, Vol. 3

Maika Half-Wolf has just escaped the Cumaea, but the ancient entity Zinn is still bound inside her, and neither of them fully understands what the other can do. The anti-Arcanic Cumaea hunt anyone like her, while human and Arcanic factions circle for advantage.

Maika, the fox-girl Kippa and a small circle of allies take shelter in Tear Shed, a rough harbor town run by pirates, where mercy is scarce. Safety here is a matter of who will tolerate them.

The scheming Dusk Court and its formidable ruler Tuya pull Maika into their plans. She faces something harder than a fight: she has to trust other people. Old wounds from her mother's past come to the surface, and secrets about the deeper history of the Known World begin to emerge.

This volume collects issues #13 to 18 of the comic series by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. It widens the political map of a matriarchal world inspired by the 1920s, yet stays close to Maika as her hold on her own humanity frays. The question is how much of herself she will risk to keep the people she loves alive.