Explore Faith, Belief, And Survival From All Sides: Reviewing ‘The Sacrificers’ #2

Welcome to the table,

Faith is a powerful thing. It can convince a small child they are disabled because they do not love a magical invisible being in a kingdom in the clouds enough. It can be used as a shield for bad behavior when you have no logical reason to dislike someone for who they love. On some occasions, it can be used to convince oneself that the horrors that lay in front of them will be fine because it’s all some cosmic test beyond mortal understanding.

Faith is a strange and powerful thing. In the pages of this delightful weird book, created by writer Rick Remender and artists Max Fiumara and Dave McCaig, what exactly it can do to someone, good, bad, or otherwise, is on dazzling display.

The Sacrificers #2 picks up with the strange collective of masked agents moving from settlement to settlement and collecting chosen sacrificial beings to add to a long chain, as they are led to some unknown place beyond. Where before we saw the brutality of our protagonist being added to the collection, the civilization of whale-like creatures treated selection for sacrifice as something to be proud of, a higher calling that makes the one being sacrificed worthy of praise and adoration.

That’s where the book shines for me. The art is brilliant, the creature design is unique and fun, and the world-building is just as weird and strange as I want it to be. What really speaks to me though is the conversations had between those preparing for some unknown fate at the hands of those who are more powerful than them.

The conversations had between those chained together build the world, both in culture and religion, and in a handful of pages deepens the setting of this story in really fun ways. From the woman who was raised in a pit and ate rats and moss all of her life to the favored among her people who was treated as worthy above all others, The Sacrificers explores the idea of the unknown and how that unknown can shape the the people who are dragged towards it.

Until next time, The Sacrificers continues to be weird in all the best ways, and between the stellar art and existential dialog, I hope this book is around for a while because this is the flavor of weirdness the world needs more of.