Line #51 ComicBook/PrettyDeadly


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Deathface Ginny.]]
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4	->''He raised Her a Reaper of Vengeance,''\
5	''A hunter of men who have sinned''\
6	''If you done been wronged,''\
7	''Say Her name''\
8	''Sing this song''\
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10	''Sound the bell's knell''\
11	''That calls Her from hell...''\
12	''Ginny rides for you on the wind, my child...''\
13	''Death rides on the Wind!''\
14	- The Ballad of Deathface Ginny
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16	''ComicBook/PrettyDeadly'' was initially a WeirdWest comic by Creator/KellySueDeConnick and Emma Rios. It's a mixture of SpaghettiWestern and magical realism.
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18	In the first volume, "The Shrike," published in 2013-4, a blind man, Fox, and a little girl, Sissy, go from town to town, telling the Ballad of Deathface Ginny, the Daughter of Death. But when Sissy steals a binder from a man and Fox burns it, it unleashes Deathface Ginny herself. And she won't go away until she enacts her revenge.
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20	The second volume, "The Bear," published in 2015-6, made a TimeSkip into UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, following the next generation of mortal characters and the same immortals.
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22	The third volume, "The Rat," published in 2019-2020, follows another TimeSkip to [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood 1930s Hollywoodland]].
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24	The fourth volume, "The Butterfly," will go back to look at the Viking invasion of America and the origin of Big Alice.
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26	The fifth volume, "The Rabbit," will be the final volume and wrap up the entire story of the Reapers and the progeny of Sarah Fields.
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29	!Tropes include:
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31	* AllThereInTheManual: Johnny and Molly's backstory is only in extra material in two issues.
32	* TheAtoner: Fox.
33	* BlindSeer: Fox is blind and, while not precognitive, he certainly knows a lot more than he's telling.
34	* BountyHunter: Big Alice and her gang, who work for Death.
35	* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Not only is the story being told to a butterfly, but when Big Alice dies, her body turns into a herd of butterflies.
36	* ConstantlyCurious: Sissy. In Issue 3, she even refuses to move [[spoiler:until Fox tells her the entire story of why they are running]].
37	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Heavily implied with Mason, Johnny and Molly in Issue 5]]
38	* DemBones: Aside from Death, the entire story is narrated by Bones Bunny, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin skeleton of a rabbit]], talking to a butterfly.
39	* EldritchAbomination:
40	** The Reaper of War is much less human than most of the others, and pretty terrifying.
41	** In volume three, we see the shadows of the Reapers of Hunger, Thirst, and Obsession. They ''all'' look terrifying.
42	* FantasticNoir: The third volume is based on this, as opposed to the WeirdWest of the first volume and the WeirdHistoricalWar of the second.
43	* FrameStory: The comic is narrated by Bones Bunny, who is telling the story to a butterfly.
44	* GreekChorus: Bones Bunny and the butterfly narrate and comment on the action.
45	* TheGrimReaper: The central concept of the series. There is a single Death, served by a team of Reapers, all of whom started out as human beings and each of which specializes in death related to a specific concept, including Vengeance, Fear, War, Courage, and others.
46	* TheGunslinger: Fox is a good shooter, even if he is blind.
47	* HalfHumanHybrid: Ginny is half-human half-reaper[[spoiler: and half-god, according to her.]]
48	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Lily.
49	* MagicalRealism: Nobody questions a lot of the weird things, like a raven that talks.
50	* MurderBallad: What "The Ballad of Deathface Ginny" is. It's about a man who marries a woman, then imprisons her in a stone tower for years, until she calls out for Death. When Death comes, he falls in love with her and they conceive a child...but the woman dies anyway. The child becomes Deathface Ginny, who goes after men who have sinned.
51	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: What Ginny is out for.
52	* SceneryPorn: Lots of beautiful scenery by Emma Rios.
53	* {{Shinigami}}: The lesser Reapers in this series are basically a re-importation of the modern Japanese fantasy-genre shinigami concept into Western culture.
54	* SwordAndGun: Both Deathface Ginny and Big Alice wield a gun and a sword.
55	* WeDidntStartTheFuhrer: A rare example related to World War I rather than World War II -- the war was caused by the Reaper of War getting above himself, and ended when Ginny and friends killed him.
56	* WeirdHistoricalWar: The second arc, set in World War I with various Reapers intervening.
57	* WeirdWest: As weird as it gets.
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