Shadow Service Vol I and II Review

Worried your partner is cheating? Need a missing person found? Gina Meyers is the Private Investigator for you. Sure, she’s a witch who worries that her powers make her more of a monster than the crooks she’s trying to catch, but it’s n ot like London’s criminal underworld is literally going to hell… is it? Spy craft meets black magic in the shadowy world of MI666.

General Impressions

I went into this read without the smallest idea of what I was about to start and if you are looking for a quick read with an easy dive in the story and great art, you should definitely pick up this book.

I like to think of this story as Ratatui meets Witch Jessica Jones meets The Umbrella Academy: we have a grumpy superpowered woman who follows leads from a rat to find people and I adored them. Her already hard life gets complicated when she realizes that she is not the only magical being and comes across a secret agency lead by a being in a child's body and his team: a cannibal and an assassin that cannot feel anything. And I loved these two even more.

What I liked the most about these two volumes was that they were a sequence of tragedies and tortures and as a reader apparently, that is what I like to read about. Seriously the torture scenes are worth the money alone. Also, the artists know how to draw physically strong women without killing them under the male gaze/ fantasy of what they should look like.

I need the next volume for tomorrow.

Thank you Black Crow Pr for these DRCs.

Rating: 4/5