Bad Girls Wrap-Up

All seems lost. 

The Bad Girls have Sela and the other Forces of Good on the run with a seemingly endless demon horde, hot on their heels.  With their ultimate goal of world and realm domination finally within reach, it would seem as though nothing could stand in their way.  Concluding the dimension-spanning series, Baba Yaga, the Goblin queen, and the rest of the Bad girls won’t let anything stand in their way, not even the Dark One himself.

 Here it is, the end to yet another amazing series from the Grimm Fairy Tales universe.  Sela and crew definitely have their work cut-out for them this time around.  However, with the help of Red Riding Hood and the Mandersoon, and one unexpected ally, the scales seem to finally be tipping in their favor.  With treachery afoot, the shaky alliance that the Bad Girls had established starts to crumble, leading to their own undoing.  This all leads up to one final clash, a real Justice League versus the Legion of Doom type battle, only, with a gender swap.

The third issue in the series shows us Sela, Nathan and Samantha meeting up with Red Riding Hood.  What I liked about this issue was that you could see a bit of dissension in the ranks among the Bad Girls.  It gives you little hints of what’s to come and re-affirms what would naturally happen when a room full of super-villainesses try to work together.  As I’ve said in my other reviews, I really like that this series has embraced the super hero genre. 

Issue four threw in a nice little twist that I liked.  It definitely changed things up and was a nice little something that I wasn’t expecting.  It’s always cool to see characters from different series, inter-mingle within the same story line, especially when a character shows up that you haven’t seen in awhile.  It’s a cool dynamic that ties everything together and gives the Grimm Universe that much more integrity.  I guess you could say I’m a bit of a sucker for the cross-overs.

The final issue is the big throwdown.  Yet again the twist ending struck a chord with me.  That coupled with the awesome art stylings throughout really made this series for me.  To me, the art has a 90’s feel to it with the anatomy a bit exaggerated and just the brighter tone and coloring.  That was probably my favorite era of comics because the books just seemed so outrageous that at times they didn’t take themselves seriously.  Still, this issue went out strong and led back into the regular Grimm Fairy Tales series nicely.

There was a lot to like in this series and nothing really bothered me that much with one exception.  Now, whatever reasons there may have been, I'm not a huge fan of books having multiple artists doing the interiors, as was the case for issue three.  I know that time and personal matters come into play all the time in the industry, but it kinda throws me off when you start out reading a book with one art style and then half-way through it switches to someone else.  Don’t get me wrong, the art was great overall, I just like consistency.

 

A great read if I ever did find one, Bad Girls finishes strong and takes no prisoners.  It’s so good even Nathan Cross gave it a thumbs up (he would have given it two, but he only has one hand so…).  With surprises for the Grimm fan and epic battles for the hero-book fan, you really can’t go wrong with this series.  Go check out the exciting conclusion to Bad Girls now.  For more info on where to pick up these issues, visit the Zenescope website or the Zenescope Facebook page.

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