The premise of this book is so interesting. The execution however... was not.This reminded me a bit of Chelsea Cain's Maneater book in that the message appears to be that men fear powerful women and will do whatever they have to do to contain them. Including creating a weird surveillance town and keeping them reigned in with a ring of fire. I get the purpose, but there was something about the execution here that didn't do much of anything for me.I like Isadora's introduction. She starts out as t...

Individual issue reviews: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6Total review score: 2.96

I seem to be the odd one out on Goodreads but I really enjoyed this comic. The premise was unique and it delivered in story and art style, I hope to see more from this series in the future.

I really wish they didnt cancel this series, great start and idea. Love the artwork.

Such a hugeeee disappointment!Let's talk about how this had the most exciting premise...witches turned into suburban housewives. While it did feel a little similar to Joelle Jones' Lady Killer I still thought that it was going to be fun based on the summary. The execution did not work AT ALL. It was so sloppy without much depth or exploration of the characters. The reader spends so much time reading about the ins and outs of the housewives that it felt like the whole purpose of the book was lost...

This sounded so cool just based on the premise and cover art. Wasn't much of a fan of the actual execution of the story though... and it had so much potential.

I enjoyed this weird story! I'd definitely read the sequel if they get greenlit for one!TW: Cat dies via beheading and is shown in multiple comic panes. Not what i'd call hyper-realistic art, so might not be too triggering.

This had a seriously GREAT premise and very nice art.But the more I read the worse it got.The gist is that a coven of extremely powerful witches gets taken down by a group of male witch hunters. How, you ask? They somehow get hold of and brainwash the ladies (off-page) into thinking that they're housewives, and then have this whole Truman Show camera set up going on underground to keep an eye on them while the guys are 'at work'. Plus, a massive firewall (literally a forest fire) around the neig...

I didn't expect that turn of events when I picked up Hex Wives...or that turn of events...or that one!It's a great story and I was invested and annoyed and disgusted from the get go but now I feel the buzz and I want the next volume! Hex yeah!

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.Mankind always had a thing against witches. Unexplainable life expectancy and occult magical powers don’t exactly make humans very comfortable after all. The good thing was that they couldn’t always tell them apart from themselves, making it that much harder to find and eliminate them. Or was that a bad thing? But what if this war had a much more basic conflict to it? One that was actually filtered down to genders? A war pinned in a rage between...

Its a shame this probably wont get a second vol. One of the few things I was excited to see come out of Vertigo recently. Now with Vertigo gone, I'm not sure if the series will get picked up again. WHICH IS A SHAME BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY GOOD. A family and a coven have been fighting for centuries. Any time the witches die, they come back with magic but can not use it until they remember who they are. The family figures this out and traps the latest reincarnations in a fake 1950s suburban neighbo...

Hex Wives focuses on a coven of witches who are brainwashed into thinking that they are stereotypical 50s housewives. They slowly piece together that they have powers and then decide to fight back against those who tricked them. This was a fun idea and the whole premise had potential. However, it wasn't executed very well. There isn't anything that sticks out as glaringly horrible about the story, but there wasn't anything downright amazing either. I was able to still enjoy some parts though. I

The series had some promise but the setup was clunky and poorly defined. A magic version of The Stepford Wives or Joelle Jones's Ladykiller with witches. A group of witches are brainwashed into being 50s housewives until they slowly learn what's really going on. With the demise of Vertigo, maybe Blacker will be able to bring this to another publisher? I hope he retained the rights.

Really didn’t enjoy this although I should have, given the subject matter.

This was part of a new wave of Vertigo titles in 2018 that were an attempt to revitalize the flagging brand. The premise of this one intrigued me--a coven of witches who can't be killed become brainwashed by a group of witch hunters to live in a Stepford Wives-type suburban environment. I've not read or watched The Stepford Wives, so I don't know exactly how much this concept borrowed from that source of inspiration. Unfortunately the execution of this idea was somewhat sloppy. We get a brief ex...

I really loved this premise and the first couple of issues but it fell apart at the end. A lot of information was crammed into the last two issues and the story felt incoherent at times. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like it's getting a second volume to fix some of those problems.

3.75 starsI LOVE the premise (badass blood magic coven of witches who reincarnate) and the artwork is amazing! There's also a queer WLW romance in the volume, although most of the time they're separated and all of the women are in straight marriages (it is the quintessential 1950s suburbia scheme after all). It's a fun and quick read and fills that need for spooky October vibes. However, I have two main critiques.1) Pacing: the volume spends more time than necessary with the coven as housewives

I really wanted to like this, the art in the first volume is fantastic and the story sounded promising. I found it fell flat somehow and I don’t really care about the characters.

A genuinely interesting concept let down by some of the most asinine writing I’ve ever come across in a comic book.

Killer concept.