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Monstress, Vol. 6

Monstress, Vol. 6

Graphic NovelsComics
Published
2021
Language
English

Synopsis

War has spread across the Known World, and Maika Half-Wolf is standing at the center of it whether she wants to be or not. This volume slows down after the escalating conflict of the previous books to deal with the people around Maika rather than the battles: old debts come due, long-buried relationships are re-examined, and Maika finally gets real answers about Tuya's past and her tangled connection to the Half-Wolf bloodline.

Maika also meets family she never knew existed, forcing her to reckon with a lineage that has shaped the world's power struggles long before she was born. Meanwhile, her bond with Zinn deepens into something closer to partnership than possession, even as the ancient entity's true nature remains something Maika is still coming to terms with.

Collecting a run of the main series alongside the Talk-Stories interludes, Monstress, Vol. 6: The Vow trades some of the series' battlefield scale for its emotional throughline, resolving several of the mysteries the earlier volumes had been circling.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkAtmosphericEmotional
Found Family

Genres

Graphic Novels Comics Dark Fantasy

Authors

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Marjorie Liu

Marjorie Liu is an American novelist and comics writer, born in Philadelphia and raised in Seattle. She studied East Asian Studies and Biomedical Ethics at Lawrence University and earned a law degree at the University of Wisconsin, and practiced law before writing full-time. She is known for the Dirk & Steele and Hunter Kiss paranormal romance and urban fantasy series, for Marvel work including X-23, NYX, Dark Wolverine and Astonishing X-Men, and for Monstress, the Image Comics series drawn by S...

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Sana Takeda

Sana Takeda is a Japanese illustrator and comic artist, born in 1977 in Niigata and based in Tokyo. She began as a 3D CGI designer for Sega before becoming a freelance illustrator. She co-created X-23 art for Marvel with writer Marjorie Liu before the two launched the creator-owned series Monstress in 2015, blending Japanese woodblock and yokai art influences with manga and Western comics style. Monstress has won multiple Eisner and Hugo Awards, and Takeda was named a Hugo Award-winning Best Pro...

Characters

Maika Half-WolfProtagonist

Learns the truth about Tuya's past and meets long-lost family as the war reshapes the Known World around her.

ZinnSupporting

The entity bound to Maika, whose relationship with her shifts toward full acceptance.

All characters in Monstress, Vol. 6