Comic Review: RWBY #6 Ruby: Part two The Egg

 

As Ruby and the rest of team RNJR (Basically Nora, Jaune, and Ren) come across a village under attack by towering Manticore Grimms, however things don’t get any easier when the villagers have lost their faith in Huntsmen and Huntresses as a whole after the shit that went down at Beacon Academy during the events of Vol.3 and want nothing to do with Team RNJR despite their troubling Grimm crisis.

Our Take

Given that this is a continuation to chapter 1 of Ruby Rose’s retconned portion of the story, Ruby is still in a period of adjustment that this isn’t her usual team and has to re-learn to work together with a completely different group of people compared to those she was formerly teammates with, and it also doesn’t help that Cinder’s speech during the events of Vol.3 has created chaos, in-fighting and civil unrest amongst the various territories across Remnant along with distrust towards the people of Atlas as they blindly think Atlas and by-extension all Huntsmen schools who train students to be Hunters & Huntresses are simply training them to be soldiers for a private army who care about nobody but themselves.

There’s even a series of panels that do a good job with the action scenes as many of them take place in the rain with zero dialogue, and get the point across especially an intense speech Ruby makes later to the strangers in response to their bullshit. The chapter’s title is also a metaphor about learning to “break out” of your proverbial shell and trust people again, and as Joe Dirt would simply put it: “Keep-on keepin’on” when everything seems hard.

As usual, The comic team involved with this ongoing series Writer Marguerite Bennette, Colorist Arif Prianto And this time with a new artist involved named Meghan Hetrick who all still manage to knock it out of the park when it comes to keeping things consistent in these “in-between” stories as I often call them since they frequently reference what happened in Vol.3 and other past events yet don’t make the complete transition to Vol.4. If there’s any lesson to be had that Ruby and the rest of her teammates have learned, it’s that there’s arguably no true reward for heroism, other than the lasting impression you make and actions leave behind. But above all, if you want to grow as a person, don’t believe everything you hear in the news, as sometimes the people worth trusting are those who don’t ask for anything in return even when your being an asshole to them.

Now that all 4 characters have gotten their own introductory chapters, It’s easy to assume that the next chapters will each be a “chapter 2” for every other character within this current run by DC comics and I look forward to reading them.