A collection of the 'Specials' one-shot comic book editions, including the historical stories, a Christmas annual and a comedy issue. The tales set in the past may not have the completeness and genius of James Robinson's Starman issues of the same ilk, but they are integral parts of the series that provide the deep background and context to set the 2014-2016 story in. 8 out of 12, as some of them are pretty pretty pretty good.

This was a chore for me. I was keen to get right back in the story but this was a collection of specials that were released between volumes. Also when I read a comic book I’m not looking for chapters of text

This blew my damn mind. I need to go back and read from the beginning but stupid school is making me read educational material.Second reading: blew my mind even more. I highly recommend re-reading this after "Okay."

I'm so excited for everyone to get their hands on this volume! These bonus issues answer questions that the arcs haven't, and the Christmas Annual and Funnies are just a great fucking time.After re-reading, here are my star ratings for each issue:1831AD - 4 Stars455AD - 4 Stars1923AD - 5 Stars1373AD - 5 Stars (personal fav of all)Christmas - 5 StarsFunnies - 3 Stars

this series is sort of like a car crash that you can’t bring yourself to look away from

Wicked+Divine is one of the better comics out there right now, and I feel it's criminally underrepresented next to say, Saga. The premise of the series is about a recurring pantheon of 12 gods who return to the earth every 90 years to live fast lives of revelry. (You live fast and die young within two years).The series is slowly starting to give some answers, but this volume is a chance to explore the different dealings throughout the ages and experiment with times outside of smartphones.1831 45...

A mostly innocuous series of Wicked + Divine stories. We get interesting looks at the gods in different eras, but the only one of them that's truly notable is 1923 AD. The glimpse at the gods at the edge of our technological age is pretty neat. Beyond that, I'm not a big fan of stories with heavy text components, but Gillen does decently with the exercise, and it allows him to tell a much larger story: basically, a miniseries about the last days of the 1923AD gods.

I thought this series was done, or maybe I was simply done with this series. There is one more volume after this one. This is a collection of short stories that happen between the story or volumes that we have already read, so then people who died, like Lucifer, now have a story again. I did think a few of the stories were decent, but overall, this added very little to the series, Calista speaking. This feels like a cash grab.I will read the last volume and finish this story and I hope it's a de...

Somehow I got it in my mind that this was the final volume of the series. So imagine my disappointment to find instead that it is a compendium of previously uncollected interstitial stories dealing with incarnations of the gods in times past and specials with random sex scene flashbacks in the modern story as well as non-continuity humor strips.I almost stopped reading when I hit the text-heavy tribute to Agatha Christie in the middle, but I plowed through despite gaining nothing but misery. Stu...

This volume collects the six specials that go with the series [455 AD, 1373 AD, 1831 AD, 1923 AD, Christmas Special, and Funnies]. Most of them are pretty good but it's still a bit disappointing because I feel like every time we gain some plot momentum with this series the authors just decide to take a huge detour before moving on. I guess most of these were published years ago, but still. I like that the four specials focused on certain years give us actual insight into the game that Minerva an...

Hmm, I appreciate that the creators wanted to compile these special issues into one volume, but this didn't really work for me.• I enjoyed the first three stories. They were typical WicDiv tales and they were solid. I liked all the guest artists' work as well.• However, I didn't care for the fourth story at all. It's 90% prose and, honestly, it was a chore to read. I can appreciate Gillen wanting to do something different, but this was a bust for me.• The Christmas annual was fine. 🤷‍♂️• Also wa...

*4.25Wow wow wow.Honestly, at this point, I don't know if it's that I like the plot or the characters, but... it's good, in a way that has to be acknowledged regardless of whether or not I like it.This volume is a "special edition" thing where it's not a continuation of the ongoing plot but a collection of different stories. The first four are some spin-off stories about previous Pantheons, the next are some Christmas specials, and then there are just some nonsense funny ones. It's a combination...

3.5 stars

Collecting the specials, in chronological order – meaning readers of the trades will have a very different experience to singles readers, who got them dotted between arcs in quite another order. My experience of the latter approach was...well, they certainly answered some of the questions the main arc was begging (given the death of the gods seems generally to come about through violence, could one of them just...not get killed? What happens then?). But at the same time they also reminded me of

This had a really strong start but then the writing got lazy halfway thru. Adding chunks of text instead of illustrating the story is just plain laziness. People DO NOT buy a comic to read it like a normal book. Not too mention the bullshit short at the end of this volume. For a Mature rated comic I was really disappointed to see juvenile type shorts at the end of this.

four stars instead of five like the other volumes, because as much as i love wicdiv, i'm simply not invested in the backstory characters like i'm invested in the modern plotline. but the art still slaps and the classic lit references were delightful so there we are. i am finishing these damn comics today on god (no pun intended)

Volume seven of WicDiv was nothing short of phenomenal. Years worth of questions were answered in epic payoffs; fantastic art with meticulously researched details literally spanning all of time, and of course, a massive cliffhanger.But don’t get too excited opening up volume 8 – you’re not going to get any resolution just yet. This volume collects the WicDiv specials, all of which were released at different times during WicDiv’s run. That means anyone reading the issues has already seen these –

Not the strongest volume in the collection. Honestly, probably my least favorite volume. This one focuses a lot more on the history and there are full pages of text which became tedious to read. But it was interesting to continue to put the pieces together of this story and it made me so excited to read the final volume.

The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 8 is a collection of six special issues, four of which feature the endings of the previous Pantheons:1) set in 455 AD, originally published after the issue 28;2) set in 1373 AD, originally published after the issue 39;3) set in 1831 AD, originally published after the issue 22;4) set in 1923 AD, originally published after the issue 33, written mostly in prose;5) Christmas Annual, originally published after the issue 33, features "deleted scenes" from the series;6) Th...

I was so confused. This type of character and world building would have been much better earlier in the series. I powered through to get to volume nine. This volume left me more disoriented than anything.