Penny Dreadful Vol. 3: The Victory of Death (Penny Dreadful: The Ongoing Series)

I was deeply disappointed in the final installment of the Penny Dreadful comic series. If you, like me, started reading the comic due to the abrupt and unsatisfying ending of the TV series, then I suggest not bothering with this volume.While the artwork is really very good, the writing is pretty awful.It will leave you feeling as bereft as the tv series finale did.Maybe my mistake was hoping that Vanessa would be treated as more than a sad damsel or tool.In my opinion, none of the more complicated characters were done justice in this comic.Brona/ Lily, perhaps the most boring and unnessecary addition to the comic. I will be honest and say, while I appreciated Brona I never liked the Lily character and still don't. Other characters such as Cat and Dr. Seward and even Joan " the Cut Wife" Clayton provided much needed feminist overtones to the series without resorting to cliche and are entirely underutilized in the comic, in favor of the yet again reinvented Lily, now a feminist for God.Poor Sir Malcolm. He had his faults, lots of them. Big ones. Huge faults, but I loved him anyway. His being relegated to a "shade" was a waste and the comic suffered for it.Dr. Frankenstein, all I will say about him is this, he became boring in season three of the TV series and his uselessness continues into the comic.Of course Sembene died and doesn't appear in the comic, so I am taking a moment to point out that writing him off the show was a terrible descision!Caliban/John Clare/The Monster/ Laurence...only makes a short appearance in the comic, which is fine. I always border on loving or hating him, but never fail to pity him. So, maybe not giving him a larger role was a kindness.Ethan. Oh Ethan. While the character was present in the comic, he bordered on unrecognizable which had more to do with the writing than the artwork. The comic version seemed nothing short of a weak willed puppy rather than the Wolf of God. The comic for certain delivered a hatchet job where he is concerned.Vanessa...she deserved so much better. In the show, not to mention what they did to her in the comic. Really, I don't wish to sully this review with talking about what they did to her in the comic. Eve. If it wasn't really her. She was the heart of the series. A character with real flaws, but so much compassion and love that she bound a odd assortment of others around her.The reason the show ended when she died is because it would have felt empty and pointless without her. So, a comic without the real Vanessa is entirely heartless.Lily reuniting Ethan was inevitable, but given what the character evolved into the ending seems very simplistic. A happy ending together felt forced and laughable in a way that was entirely humorless. I'm not saying the characters didn't deserve happiness, I'm saying that they should not have ended up together, because it negates all the development the characters underwent and all the tragic beauty of their original story.I say this as someone who truly hated what John Logan did at the end of the show, but if this was what the fourth season would have been, then he absolutely did the right thing.

Honestly very disappointed that this was the final cover. When I preordered I thought it was a temporary cover just put up for Amazon's listing. It feels so cheap that they just slapped a poster from the show on it. If it's its own comic series, why not give it a comic cover? Looks so odd compared to the other 3 comic collections.Update: Ended up returning my copy. While I enjoyed the prequel graphic novel, the other 2 felt like homework to me and did not feel true to the characters or show writing. To be honest I didn't try to read this one. Why keep going if it feels like a chore?

The third installment of Penny Dreadful's comic series follows the original cast from the second comic, while also introducing the Creature and the end of Dorian Gray. While the writing doesn't stand up to the writing of the TV series, it does well to keep true to the characters and push the story forward. Although it's speculation, it is possible the ending presented connects the original Penny Dreadful series to the new series starting this year, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.

The end of days is excitingly enticing to read. Loved the way the individual parts congealed in this arc. Those twins though!!

I enjoyed this volume more than volume 2. Nice way to wrap up the story arch

Beautiful presentation

Sid read. Good story.

Interesante continuación de la serie Penny Dreadful. No me ha gustado mucho el final de este cómic, pero como tiene pinta de que van a sacar otro más... No pierdo la esperanza de que me sorprendan.

Llego en perfectas condiciones con un marcapaginas de regalo. "Termina" con la saga. Lectura en ingles fácil y se lee rápido.