History ComicBook / RatQueens

* VitriolicBestBuds: Hannah and Violet, more than anyone, get to [[ElvesVersusDwarves shouting at one another often]]. Played with, as it's implied that Hannah fails to realize she might be more hurtful than she intends.

* ScheduleSlip: Wiebe has put the series on hold, following in part some of the negative reception of the third arc.

*** It's revealed in the third arc that Bilford Bogins was a religious figure who's named entered into use as an exclamation similar to 'Jesus Christ'.

** "Bilford Bogin" is another one that get's thrown around quite a lot as well. For reasons yet to be made clear, it's considered ''especially'' [[CountryMatters vulgar]] in this world.

** It should be noted that Dee [[spoiler:is also married, a fact she had keep a secret from the rest of the Rat Queens]].

-->'''Vi''':"I want to get drunk. I want to get high. I want to have sex with Orc Dave. They can happen in any order or all at once. Any objections?"

** There is reason for Hannah's Unique hairstyle.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Evidently the cult of N'rygoth, while certainly creepy for it's worship of a tentacled eldritch horror is largely benign and it's followers fairly decent people.

** Braga definitely qualifies as this as well, capable of ''slaughtering'' legions of orcs on her own (though having the Queens as backup didn't hurt), while consciously lapsing into a some-what controlled blood-rage. That, and her reputation as [[THeDreaded "The Bastard"]] amongst the orc people proceeds her.

'''''Rat Queens''''' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist for issues #9 and #10, with Tess Fowler taking over after that. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.

!! This comic provides examples of:

* XMeetsY:
** "[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]] meets ComicBook/TankGirl in a LordOfTheRings world on crack!"
** Or ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' meets ''ComicBook/TankGirl''.
** Or VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft meets {{Website/Tumblr}}.
** Also the character descriptions: Hannah the "Rockabilly Elven Mage," Violet the "Hipster Dwarven Fighter," Dee the "Atheist Human Cleric," and Betty the "Hippie Hobbit Thief."

''Did you seriously pack candy and drugs for dinner?''

'''''Rat Queens''''' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe for ImageComics, with artwork by Roc Upchurch. Stjepan Šejić replaced Upchurch as the main artist from issue #9 onwards. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.

** Later in the series: [[spoiler: she wakes extraordinarily hung over to find an assassin standing on her bed, Hannah busts in about 30 seconds later, and Betty already knows exactly where the assassin was from.]]

*** [[spoilers:It's revealed in the third arc that Bilford Bogins was a religious figure who's named entered into use as an exclamation similar to 'Jesus Christ']].

*** [[spoilers: it's revealed in the third arc that Bilford Bogins was a religious figure who's named entered into use as an exclamation similar to 'Jesus Christ']]

* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:Braga is mtf transexual. [=Human!Dave=] doesn't mind. Whether or not she transitioned via magic has yet to be revealed.]]

* TheRival: The Peaches, introduced in the first story arc, may be this for the Rat Queens, but more likely it's just that Hannah and Tizzie, the leader of the Peaches, get under each other's skins.

* ArtShift: Inevitable with Stjepan Sejic taking over art duties from Roc Upchurch as of issue #10.

* OverusedCopycatCharacter: The Obsidian Darkness appear to be an entire party of [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] clones.

'''''Rat Queens''''' is a ComicBook by Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch for ImageComics. Set in and around the fantasy town of Palisade, Rat Queens follows the adventures of a typical adventuring party on a quest for gold and glory. The storytelling tone is light and playful, weaving between {{deconstruction}} and {{reconstruction}} freely, and tropes are played with, averted, inverted and turned inside out.

There is reason for Hannah's Unique hairstyle.

** "Bilford Bogin" is another one that get's thrown around quite a lot as well.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Reason why Violet left home. Granted, the guy was an asshole and had it coming.]]

* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:Braga is mtf {{transexual}}. [=Human!Dave=] doesn't mind. Whether or not she transitioned via magic has yet to be revealed.]]

The Rat Queens are a group of beer-swilling, loudly foul-mouthed, destructive mercenaries operating out of the tiny town of Palisade. A fairly standard setup for a comic book that's not taking the DungeonsAndDragons world too seriously, but with the twist that all four of said mercenaries (and a near-majority of their allies and rivals in Palisade as well) are women.