I read and reviewed the six issues collected here separately, so this is basically for my own records. Monstress is a fantastic series, and the absolute highlight of it, for me, is the art. There's a very art deco feel to it, which is not the first style I'd have come up with for a complex story about witch-Inquisitors in a war with magical hybrids. Yet it really works, and even only six issues in I feel as if I could be handed an illustration from any part of Monstress and immediately identify it as part of the series. It's that distinctive.

The story itself is almost as fascinating, and if I'm less enthused about the demon monster inside Maika, I love the political nature of the story: the shifting alliances and (often unclear) motivations of multiple sets of actors. Hardly anyone here is what they seem, either to the reader or the other characters, and I find that sort of thing so compelling as a reader.