The magazine issue was a slog. The dialogue in this series has never been particularly strong, but at least it was sparse--primarily moderately-clever quips punctuating all the flashy spectacle. That doesn't carry a wall of text, let alone a full issue of them. At least the art was good.Unfortunately it didn't get much better after that. The whole point of this volume is that the godkids are squandering their final(?) days in an ugly melange of hedonism and nihilism, which is not nearly as fun t...

The first issue is a lifestyle magazine featuring interviews with a half dozen or so of the gods. Interesting concept but it was all just boring and vapid. I felt like I wasted my time even bothering to read it. Then we start to move on and the Great Darkness is set up as the big bad. But then that flounders because the gods basically quit giving a shit, the story is all over the map, and all of the characters become less and less likable. At this point, the art is really the only reason I even

I don’t think that is possibleOh, but I will!I am not sure what happened to this series, but I am done. This volume was just a confusing mess of disjointed randomness. I could barely find any coherent continuation of the storyline beyond a few panels here and there. The art is still pretty good, but that does not make up for the time I spent on this. I just cannot see myself wasting any more time with this series when there are so many other great books and graphic novels out there I could be sp...

I’m a large fan of the series so far. I really loved the inclusion of the other writers as interviewers at the very beginning. That was cool. As the story has gone on though, I've found that I'm not as invested as I was at the beginning of the series. It seems that it's going to be very messy plot-wise going forward, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.

I don't understand the pacing of this series. Just when it seems things are picking up, everything comes screeching to a halt. The longer it goes on the less I understand what's going on and the less I care about any of the characters. It certainly looks nice though.

I think I might like the art more than the storyline.

What do you do when your main protagonist is dead and the primary arc is concluded? You just carry on, whilst tweaking the past, apparently. ----> A storytelling device of revisiting and /or tweaking the past, makes a reader like me think that you're making it up as you go along. So it's not that the book is poor, it's still a great concept with some superb characters, but they are starting to feel a tad bit one dimensional and/or stereotypical. I suppose the key thing is that I am no longer dyi...

3.5. I thought this volume was a little slow and boring but I enjoyed it overall. The first issue deviates from the usual comic's structure and it's told in a magazine format. There are articles about some of the gods where the gods do photoshoots and give interviews and there's also advertisements where the gods endorse products like phones and cologne. On the one hand, I liked it because it was something different, the pictures were absolutely stunning, I thought it was done very well because

It's like watching a television show that you really enjoyed in the beginning but now it's the fifth season and you have no idea what's going on but you stick with it because you're in too deep and you want to find out what happens and see it through to the end.

3.5 stars

The story is so much clearer now than in the first few volumes.

I need a TV show, stat

Decent. Jamie McKelvie's art honestly never gets boring, its just so amazing to look at! Story wise this was fine, its "Imperial Phase Part 1", the 'Part 1' meaning not really much happens in this one, it just lays ground work for Part 2 where the real story will happen. Never liked the Part 1 & 2 thing in books or movies. This isn't as filler bad as Vol 3, but its not as good as vol 1, 2 or 4.

Another good volume. The first chapter is bazaar. It is like a newspaper or magazine interview for several of the characters including Lucy. It also didn't seem to do much for the story either. You can tell they don't have a leader and they are simply spinning out into chaos. The art is the same style continued as previous volumes. There are some bloody and mature scenes in this.I think I am ready for an end to this. I hope they have a good one in mind. It needs to have a direction now. I feel l...

3.5 rounded up. I did not particularly like the magazine style of the beginning of this volume. It was sort of interesting but I came for a comic book not magazine articles. The art continues to be absolutely beautiful. The colours, the outfits, the hair styles... all gorgeous and make me envious. I’m still enjoying the story but it’s not as clear as it could be so at times I was a little confused.

A definite improvement over the previous volume, particularly with the deepening mystery of exactly what Ananke's goals were. The experimental issue that takes the form of a celebrity news magazine is interesting, particularly because the interviews were about as real as an interview with a fictional character can be, but I'm glad it was a one off thing.

Also available on the WondrousBooks blog. Well... this was not good. Considering that WicDiv has had ups and downs before, I hope that it will still get better. However, what I see is that the story is getting closer to its end and I feel that the writers are getting tired. Even the characters seem to have exhausted their fun potential and are becoming more and more unpleasant.The Great Darkness plot is generally worthy of a main story-line, but unfortunately, it seems to be relying entirely

Goes in depth into each God's perspective. The extra art is genius and a new battle to fight! Awesomeness

Although I liked the idea behind the first issue in this volume, which features magazine-style articles about some of the gods interviewed by real-life journalists, the interviews themselves weren't that interesting to me and I was eager to go back to the usual comic book format. However, the information in the articles somewhat helped me to remember and to better understand the characters and events in the previous four volumes, so I can't complain too much :)The rest of the volume is great. It...

Be prepared for a lot of reading - the first collected issue is a lifestyle magazine in the world of the Wicked + the Divine, so heavy interviews with several of the gods. It's an interesting approach and definitely provides more insights than you would get from a regular issue, but it is a lot of text. The rest of the collection focuses on the group as they try to recover from the events of the last volume, and determine where they should go moving forward. The sense of time passing becomes a m...