The Wicked + The Divine Volume 3: Commercial Suicide - Graphic Novel | Supernatural Fantasy Comic Book for Adults | Perfect for Collectors & Comic Enthusiasts

My initial reaction to this book was confusion--the art, so consistently beautiful in the preceding two volumes--is immediately and drastically different, with a different visual style every issue. At first this bugged me, but the more I read the more the changes made sense, and, in my opinion, work.After the shocking ending of volume 2, the focus of WicDiv as a series had to shift to a different character than the one we watched for both the preceding volumes, and as the story shifts its focus across WicDiv vol. 3 from reporter to god to god, the artistic changes work to emphasize the different points of view we as the readers are experiencing. This is a book that focuses not on the central relationships one fan develops with her idols, but on the lives and experiences of each individual god idolized by the world. These are deeply broken people cursed by fame and adoration, a theme present in the previous volumes but nowhere near as thematically explored as here in volume 3. If WicDiv's greater literary message is about how terrible it would be to be famous and how terrible the "adoring fans" are to their idols, then this book is more true to delivering that message and more effective in its than both the preceding volumes combined. This is a stellar volume in a stellar series that is worth everyone's time to read.