By Robert Larson

The Wicked + The Divine #23 radically breaks with prior format in this issue. In fact, it breaks away from just about every comic book convention you can think of. Instead of being a traditional comic, this reads like a miniature magazine, and the entirety of the book is devoted to interviews with various members of the pantheon. There’s barely any art in this issue at all, and the art that exists would be more suited to an issue of Vanity Fair. It’s an interesting gimmick, and one that gives us a new look at the pantheon. But it’s also a limited approach, in part because the picture that emerges of the pantheon members is all roughly the same, it lacks the brilliant art that makes up this series, and we ultimately end up no closer to the characters of the Pantheon.