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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com

I just reread The Wicked+The Divine by @mckelvie.bsky.social & @kierongillen.bsky.social in it's entirety and it's such a perfect book. A full and complete story that doesn't need a page more or less. It's a book that while reading seems it's about everything you need it to be about it. A miracle.

The Wicked + The Divine by @mckelvie.bsky.social & @kierongillen.bsky.social i
aug 23, 2025, 5:30 am • 88 13

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social

Thank you!

aug 23, 2025, 6:08 am • 1 0 • view
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Dave Littler @dave-littler.bsky.social

It's a series which uniquely benefits from a re-read or two because there are a couple of mid-series and late-series reveals which so recontextualize everything from earlier in the story that having the experience of re-experiencing that with that fuller set of info means you're getting a new story.

aug 23, 2025, 5:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com

Plus the first time I was reading it monthly and I think this benefits from reading it collectively.

aug 23, 2025, 5:40 am • 0 0 • view
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Dave Littler @dave-littler.bsky.social

I started buying it in trade paperback form when it was about half-way through its run, and so I had the good luck of getting to the first big reveal just a month or so after I started reading it, and then went back and re-read everything I had JUST read immediately.

aug 23, 2025, 5:44 am • 2 0 • view
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com

I think Gillen and McKelvie are one of those teams that just make magic when they work together too. Like Ennis/Dillon or Brubaker/Phillips.

aug 23, 2025, 6:03 am • 2 0 • view
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joe/иосиф @24fps.bsky.social

i loved that series. i think i may have almost the full run actually i had aspirations of framing every issue and like covering an etrire wall with them. they're beautiful wicdiv.fandom.com/wiki/Categor...

aug 23, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com

That would be cool

aug 23, 2025, 5:39 am • 1 0 • view