That, and their superior skills at kicking ass and killing bad guys is what brings these ladies together. And then there’s Betty, the resident queer and comic relief: she’s a hobbit with blonde dreads who loves candy, being a sneaky sneaky thief, recreational drugs, and booze.Īctually, it’s not just Betty who loves booze: it’s every Rat Queen. Violet is a formerly-bearded dwarf who’s rebelled against her family’s traditions by leaving home and shaving her beard she wields a giant sword skillfully wherever she goes. Then there’s Dee, a quiet, socially awkward atheist who comes from a family and culture that worship a giant squid god she’s got witchy / priestess powers too, but more of the bookish type.

You’ve got the leader Hannah, a pale elf with flashy spell-casting powers, a high level of sass, a rockabilly sense of style, a messed-up past, and a penchant for dating the wrong men. So, like Girls and SITC, Rat Queens features a cast of complex, flawed women, all kick-ass in their own way. But it’s also just as rad as you might guess, taking all the awesomeness of Buffy, LOTR, SITC, Tank Girl, Girls, and D & D respectively to concoct something new, like the best mash-up ever. Yes, Rat Queens is as weird as all those comparisons imply. To be honest, the strange pictures you’re probably getting in your head from trying to imagine how all that media could be mixed together in a comic are likely pretty accurate. It’s like Sex and the City meets Lord of the Rings? Dungeons and Dragons mixed with Girls? Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Tank Girl but set in an timeless, kind of Medieval fantasy world? Wiebe and American illustrators Roc Upchurch and Stjepan Sejic is one of those comics that, when people try to describe it, ends up sounding like the most bizarre combination of the most disparate media you’ve ever heard of. Because, let's be honest, they already know why.Rat Queens by Vancouver writer Kurtis J.

And, eventually, maybe get to the bottom of who's trying to kill them. Someone wants to kill the Rat Queens? The girls are seeing red and there's only one thing to do about it get really, really drunk. WIEBE and featuring a gorgeous incentive cover by SAGA’s FIONA STAPLES! This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!Ī new ongoing series from PETER PANZERFAUST’s KURTIS J. It’s also a darkly comedic fantasy series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Hobbit Thief. Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all gods’ creatures for profit. Synopsis for 'GOLD, GUTS AND GROG, Part One' Appearing in 'GOLD, GUTS AND GROG, Part One'

Rat Queens, Vol. 1 by Kurtis J. Wiebe