In the previous comic, someone sent assassins to take out the mercenary groups the Peaches, the Four Daves, Brother Ponies, Dark Obsidians, and the Rat Queens in order to have an easier time taking over the city of Palisade. But the mercenaries joined forces with the local military and fended off the evil and a big party was put on by the Rat Queens afterward. The Rat Queens are Betty, a hippie halfling thief whose idea of a meal is drugs and candy, Hannah, a rockabilly elven mage, Violet a dwarven warrior who shaved her beard and then there's Dee, an atheist human who is skilled in combat has magic abilities and can heal, who comes from a family who worships a squid deity named N'Rygoth.
The next day they are sent a message from the mayor of Palisade to find a young woman named Bernadette. Sawyer, the head of the local military, and Hannah's on again off again boyfriend is also looking into it, but he wants them to look for her too. Sawyer is working with Lola and finds a clue that leads him to believe that an assassin of the Black Khali are involved and that he must go and deal with this alone. He finds Bernadette and the person who has taken her hostage and becomes a hostage himself.
Dee's husband Mezikah shows up and tells them that the Haruspex Requiem was stolen. This is the death mask worn by the high priestess of their religion that absorbs all of their knowledge upon their death to be transferred to the next high priestess who wears it. The Rat Queens have found Bernadette and all they can do is fix her so she is back to normal and not spouting nonsense but she will still be blind. A man named Gerrig has stolen the Haruspex Requiem with plans destroy Palisade the town he created. He doesn't have the papers with the spells so he is using what he knows from memory to call to the creatures from the abyss causing the others to hallucinate mostly bad things that will distract them from coming after him. Dee has the spells he needs. What she will do with them is a mystery.
The Rat Queens are such interesting characters with Hannah a bitch in the best possible way and in this comic you get to know everyone's past more through the hallucinations. Violet who has a mother who is an alcoholic, but supports her more than her father ever did. And Hannah and Izzie from the Peaches surprising past history. Will Dee find the answers she has been seeking her whole life from her family's religion that she has doubted most of her life? Will they be able to once again save Palisade from destruction? This is a great comic with wonderful art. I give it four out of five starts.
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