Angela: Queen of Hel: Journey to the Funderworld Review

Finished reading Angela: Queen of Hel: Journey to the Funderworld, bringing an end to Angela's solo adventures that began with the Asgard's Assassin story as writer Marguerite Bennett literally takes Angela to hell and back to rescue her one true love. The book opens eight months in the past as Angela has entered the Norse underworld of Hel in hope to find the love of her life, Sera how is being held as a prisoner within the underworld. Once Angela frees Sera from her cell she soon discovers that the only way to bring Sera back to the land of the living is to conquer Hel and become the new queen of the underworld. The last part of the book sees Angela and Sera making a home for themselves in New York along with Leah and Thori who help Angela in Hel. However strange things begin to happen when the 1602 version of Angela from Secret Wars shows up in the city leading to Thor to help the group. Overall this was an amazing book as it brings together the culmination of Angela's solo adventures at Marvel extremely with a great amount of payoff to anyone who's been on board with the character since becoming part of the Marvel universe. There's a great amount of comedic moments within the book thanks to how Sera and even Leah towards the end of the book are very self referential and even to how some of the supporting characters speak in passing. The art by the whole art team is amazing form Kim Jacinto's art along with colourist Israel Silva do an amazing job in bring the underworld of Hel to life with it's hellish aesthetic and the action set pieces hold nothing back. Additionally the rest of the books artwork by Stephanie Hans is breathtaking in places with how it's being use to show more background to the relationship between Angela and Sera as well as the fast forward part towards the end of the book extremely emotional closing to the book that is also a strength to how well the book has been written. 9/10.