‘Rat Queens’ #12 Raises Stakes, Tolkien Allusions
Kudos to Stjepan Šejic on his wonderful cover for issue #12, which acts as prelude for the issue at hand with a single bit of apt imagery–Betty, in the place of Bilbo Baggins, stealing candy from a dragon she is unaware of. Similarly, this issue shows our ever confident Rat Queens questing towards Mage University and finding more in the shadows than they are prepared to face. While that sounds rather ominous, the humor remains and is foregrounded in a story of increasing gravitas.