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Cover of the night eaters volume 2

The only gift we can give humans is not absolute victory, but instead a world with less fear

The Night Eaters, vols. 2-3 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

October 6, 2025 by vega-table Leave a Comment

Bingo Row 3 – N Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda are probably best known as the writer and artist for Monstress – an ongoing gorgeous and overwhelming fantasy comic series. Their collaboration on the Night Eaters is different enough to not be another Monstress, but similar enough that it’s clearly the same creative team: The art is dreamy and fantasy-conducive, even when it’s set in modern day North America and not a high fantasy world; the characters are mean and unlikeable, which makes them oddly […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: cbr17bingo, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

vega-table's CBR17 Review No:42 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: cbr17bingo, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda ·
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Monstress Vol 1 by Marjorie Liu

Hard pass

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

January 25, 2023 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

My wife and I went to our local comic shop several months ago, and this was one of the books she grabbed. I liked the art, she liked it was a story about women, by women. I want to get out of the way right that the outset that the art of Sana Takeda is absolutely beautiful. I mean, that’s immediately obvious from the cover. Beyond that, there was almost nothing about this book that I liked. We start off with Maika Halfwolf, an Arcanic, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda, Monstress

ingres77's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda, Monstress ·
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