Pretty Deadly, Volume 2: The Bear

by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma R os (Artist)

Overview

"Grand and majestic storytelling."

-Warren Ellis (Gun Machine, Red)

KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (CAPTAIN MARVEL, BITCH PLANET) and EMMA RÍOS (ISLAND, MIRROR) present the follow up to the Eisner-nominated, New York Times best-selling PRETTY DEADLY VOL. 1: THE SHRIKE. Sarah Fields is dying and her children strike a bargain with the Immortals: give them one month more, until the moon is full again, to find their little brother so that he may see his mother one last time. But the boy is far, far away, in the trenches of France, stalked by the Reapers of Vengeance and Cruelty. As beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage, THE BEAR collects Issue 6-10.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632156945
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	08/30/2016
Series:	Pretty Deadly Series , #2
Edition description:	Mature Readers (ages 16 and up)
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,142,707
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Emma is a cartoonist based in Spain. She shifted her focus to a mix of both architecture and work with small press publishers until working on comics full-time in 2007. Having collaborated with publishers like Marvel and DC, she was able to commit to working on her own creator-owned comics again since 2013, thanks to Image Comics, where she co-edited ISLAND and created I.D., MIRROR in two parts: THE MOUNTAIN and THE NEST with Malay cartoonist Hwei Lim, and where she currently co-creates the critically acclaimed PRETTY DEADLY with Kelly Sue DeConnick. The latter earned Ríos several Eisner Award nominations and a win for Best Cover Artist in 2020.

Editorial Reviews

This weird western saga gleefully, dreamily fuses a Greek chorus, spaghetti westerns, American trickster tales and creepy Japanese shoujo (girls') manga. At the core of it, however, is a masterpiece of mythopoeism that many literary fantasists struggle to emulate…Volume 2 is an improvement on the already stunning Volume 1, largely because the structure and stakes of DeConnick's mythic universe have become clear…[Pretty Deadly, Volume 2: The Bear] is a perfectly balanced mixture of the macabre with pure human poignancy.

The New York Times Book Review - N. K. Jemisin