Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast by Liam O'Brien, Matthew Mercer, Jody Houser

8 reviews

fourhand13's review

challenging dark sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I was showing my mum and the first page i opened was the one of

the blumentrio fuckin in the bath

Anyway I love them..

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

lunarblazes's review

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

yeah. yep, that sure is a tragic caleb widogast backstory, goddamn. heartbreaking to put his parents' faces to their names. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Violence, Torture, Sexual content, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, and Toxic relationship

this is like. really fucked up if you're not familiar with the character, guys, heed the content warnings.

bibookworm's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Minor: Body horror

conspystery's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Fire/Fire injury

lifeinsherds's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I recommend every Critical Role origins graphic novels! This one is especially beautiful and tragic in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Self harm

troll_for_initiative's review

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Gaslighting, Animal death, Blood, Violence, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Body horror, Toxic relationship, Torture, and Murder

story_goblin's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Classism and Animal death

Teens are abused and manipulated by a mentor figure into committing atrocious acts of violence.

mazomazli's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.0

It was pretty good but quite fast (I understand it’s a comic so it must be). 
Also…

the amount of threesomes packed into 60 pages was… interesting. I feel like it could’ve used a bit more time on the shards in the arms part since it wasn’t explained

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Physical abuse