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Tomboy (collected editions) #3
Tomboy Vol. 3: No Absolution
Addison's hunt leads her ever closer to a confrontation with the notorious Irene Trent, and the truth behind her mysterious powers. Fate finally pulls the Brody family back together, but the curse of their bloodline guarantees there are no happily ever afters for monsters. The exciting and epic conclusion to the twelve issue series!
128 pages, Paperback
First published June 6, 2017
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June 5, 2020
Well, pretty fantastic end to a series!
What’s it about?
Basically it’s the conclusion of the series Tomboy, anything else would be spoilers for the previous volume and people who read that know what this is about so... yeah.
Why it gets 5 stars:
The story is batshit insane and I love it! So y’all who follow my reviews know I read some insane, weird shit and this might be one of the weirdest comics I’ve ever read but I 100% mean that as a compliment!
The artwork suits this book perfectly, especially in the bloodier scenes!
The characters are interesting.
This volume gives a very intense, action packed and thrilling conclusion!
While not very humorous there is a slight element of dark humor that works really well.
This book is very unpredictable.
This is a horror comic and the horror stuff is damn good. Very bloody, weird and creepy which are all things I like seeing in my horror stuff!
The ending is fantastic! It wraps things up but could lead to a spinoff if Goodwin wanted to do that.
Overall:
Tomboy is weird as fuck and I loved it! A unique bit familiar at the same time story with cool artwork, a pile of suspense, great horror elements and bloody as hell action throughout.
Definitely a series I recommend and a must-read for horror fans!
5/5
What’s it about?
Basically it’s the conclusion of the series Tomboy, anything else would be spoilers for the previous volume and people who read that know what this is about so... yeah.
Why it gets 5 stars:
The story is batshit insane and I love it! So y’all who follow my reviews know I read some insane, weird shit and this might be one of the weirdest comics I’ve ever read but I 100% mean that as a compliment!
The artwork suits this book perfectly, especially in the bloodier scenes!
The characters are interesting.
This volume gives a very intense, action packed and thrilling conclusion!
While not very humorous there is a slight element of dark humor that works really well.
This book is very unpredictable.
This is a horror comic and the horror stuff is damn good. Very bloody, weird and creepy which are all things I like seeing in my horror stuff!
The ending is fantastic! It wraps things up but could lead to a spinoff if Goodwin wanted to do that.
Overall:
Tomboy is weird as fuck and I loved it! A unique bit familiar at the same time story with cool artwork, a pile of suspense, great horror elements and bloody as hell action throughout.
Definitely a series I recommend and a must-read for horror fans!
5/5
April 15, 2018
I feel like this series would be immensely more enjoyable if I knew what was going on ...and I'm not sure if the fact that I don't is my fault or the fault of the book itself. I like that we finally got some background on what is happening in this world but I feel like it just made the whole thing even more confusing instead of actually shedding light on anything. I still like the art and the basic concept so I will probably give the next volume a shot, but things need to start making sense sooner rather than later.
August 7, 2020
I’m honestly devastated that there is no continuation to this amazingly messed up series. I can’t understand why this isn’t more popular.
The premature end of this comic highlights the reason I came to loathe the graphic novel industry. Comics rarely have endings. They lose funding or they’re not popular enough. Staff move on to other projects or fall out. The publisher changes direction. There’s simply not enough money. This kind of gamble rarely seems to happen in prose, especially when the narrative is self published. It just leaves me so disillusioned and saddened by the medium when a truly beautiful story can never be finished.
The premature end of this comic highlights the reason I came to loathe the graphic novel industry. Comics rarely have endings. They lose funding or they’re not popular enough. Staff move on to other projects or fall out. The publisher changes direction. There’s simply not enough money. This kind of gamble rarely seems to happen in prose, especially when the narrative is self published. It just leaves me so disillusioned and saddened by the medium when a truly beautiful story can never be finished.
July 21, 2021
Trochu viac chaotické, no stále skvelé (ne)ukončujúce volume. Toľkého masakru s tak peknými farbami som už dlho nevidela. Trochu si to budem museiť nechať v hlave uležať, aby som si pospájala všetky tie vzniknuté udalosti, ale celá tá séria ma vtiahla a držala až do konca. Plus ma celkom pobavil malý detail s Jessicou na konci a konečne som pochopila, prečo jej Addi stále opravovala meno.
August 30, 2017
Compared to the first two volumes, a lot of stuff gets compressedly thrown here.
The historical explanation of various factions was hard to digest. Not to mention, too many new characters randomly popping out from nowhere. Rather difficult to keep track who's who.
Overall, bloody confusing :(
The historical explanation of various factions was hard to digest. Not to mention, too many new characters randomly popping out from nowhere. Rather difficult to keep track who's who.
Overall, bloody confusing :(
November 9, 2019
Rating the series as a whole.
A very strange (and often confusing) ride, but a fun one at that. This really feels like an anime in the best possible way, I was absolutely hooked and anxiously waiting to see what was going to happen.
A very strange (and often confusing) ride, but a fun one at that. This really feels like an anime in the best possible way, I was absolutely hooked and anxiously waiting to see what was going to happen.
August 24, 2020
This is a review for the entire series so keep that in mind!
Tomboy is a series that was a bit of a roller coaster for me. It started off very strong, kind of veered into stuff that I liked less, took a steep dive into "I don't like this anymore" then the ending is what fixed it all for me and recontextualized the moments that I disagreed with so strongly.
So I suppose I'll just run through it all lightning fast! Tomboy's about a young girl by the name of Addison who has an idyllic family life and a boy she really likes. Then one day that boy ends up dead. Murdered and tossed into a pond. Then she just so happens to be sharing a subway ride with a couple of men talking about the murder. By some absurd cosmic coincidence she is alone in the subway car with the men responsible for the boy's murder and she snaps. She goes home covered in blood, leaving behind 2 dead cops and not knowing what to do. Luckily her grandfather has some ideas in mind and... that's about all I could say without going too far into spoilers!
But, anyway. The stuff I really liked at the start was toying with the premise of an extremely corrupted versions of the magical girl trope. Addison is a big fan of one such series and she even likes wearing a mask from a character from it known as the Wintermelon Wolf. This also turns into the mask used throughout the series to hide her face, and has a very FNAF look to it with the rosy cheeks and giant eyes. It's a great look and I really love that base idea. Sadly, it kind of gets dropped over time and eventually leads into a more tense horror-y tone with Addison going further and further into the idea of murdering others to get revenge and she finds she's starting to get really quite good at it. Things get supernatural, blah blah blah spoilers. The start I loved, I got disappointed once the magical girl stuff stopped taking center stage, and there's one particularly brutal moment about midway through the series that nearly turned me off from the series entirely. And it probably would have had I been reading this as it come out, and there's also a lot of little things like the absurd coincidences that she's had to find herself in to accomplish some of the things she has.
All of that gets fixed by the ending. While that may not be good enough for some people and it may have been an attempt to cover mistakes in the writing (I'd like to think it was planned, though) it is still very much a fantastic way to "fix" all of the problems I had with the thing and there's even a nice bit of subtle representation near the end that was nice to see! This is a series that will definitely not appeal to everyone as the violence can be rather extreme but I'd say definitely continue with it if you reach the same big moment roughly halfway through the story that I did and want to stop. We've got the advantage of being able to check out the entire series these days, after all and this is one of my all-time favorites after finishing it up. Definitely a fun one if you want some spooky violence with a creepy mask.
Tomboy is a series that was a bit of a roller coaster for me. It started off very strong, kind of veered into stuff that I liked less, took a steep dive into "I don't like this anymore" then the ending is what fixed it all for me and recontextualized the moments that I disagreed with so strongly.
So I suppose I'll just run through it all lightning fast! Tomboy's about a young girl by the name of Addison who has an idyllic family life and a boy she really likes. Then one day that boy ends up dead. Murdered and tossed into a pond. Then she just so happens to be sharing a subway ride with a couple of men talking about the murder. By some absurd cosmic coincidence she is alone in the subway car with the men responsible for the boy's murder and she snaps. She goes home covered in blood, leaving behind 2 dead cops and not knowing what to do. Luckily her grandfather has some ideas in mind and... that's about all I could say without going too far into spoilers!
But, anyway. The stuff I really liked at the start was toying with the premise of an extremely corrupted versions of the magical girl trope. Addison is a big fan of one such series and she even likes wearing a mask from a character from it known as the Wintermelon Wolf. This also turns into the mask used throughout the series to hide her face, and has a very FNAF look to it with the rosy cheeks and giant eyes. It's a great look and I really love that base idea. Sadly, it kind of gets dropped over time and eventually leads into a more tense horror-y tone with Addison going further and further into the idea of murdering others to get revenge and she finds she's starting to get really quite good at it. Things get supernatural, blah blah blah spoilers. The start I loved, I got disappointed once the magical girl stuff stopped taking center stage, and there's one particularly brutal moment about midway through the series that nearly turned me off from the series entirely. And it probably would have had I been reading this as it come out, and there's also a lot of little things like the absurd coincidences that she's had to find herself in to accomplish some of the things she has.
All of that gets fixed by the ending. While that may not be good enough for some people and it may have been an attempt to cover mistakes in the writing (I'd like to think it was planned, though) it is still very much a fantastic way to "fix" all of the problems I had with the thing and there's even a nice bit of subtle representation near the end that was nice to see! This is a series that will definitely not appeal to everyone as the violence can be rather extreme but I'd say definitely continue with it if you reach the same big moment roughly halfway through the story that I did and want to stop. We've got the advantage of being able to check out the entire series these days, after all and this is one of my all-time favorites after finishing it up. Definitely a fun one if you want some spooky violence with a creepy mask.
November 23, 2018
Oh my, I really didn't see that one coming!
So, this is the last album in this series, and I'm both glad and not that it ends like this.
I feel there is still room for the story to continue, but it is also finished. We got a lot of answers to things one might think about already back in book one, and I liked how all the story arcs were finished with a nice, red bow on top (see what I did there?)
My biggest problem with this album, I think, was that it was so much back story. We got all the answers, and while I liked that, i think it could easily have been spread out a little as well. But then again, I don't think the story would have survived another album, so yeah, I guess it's a win.
So yeah, all in all I'm really happy I picked up this comic years ago, and that I got a kick in the ass last month to start looking for the rest of the series. It was interesting and I might actually want to give it a reread in the future!
So, this is the last album in this series, and I'm both glad and not that it ends like this.
I feel there is still room for the story to continue, but it is also finished. We got a lot of answers to things one might think about already back in book one, and I liked how all the story arcs were finished with a nice, red bow on top (see what I did there?)
My biggest problem with this album, I think, was that it was so much back story. We got all the answers, and while I liked that, i think it could easily have been spread out a little as well. But then again, I don't think the story would have survived another album, so yeah, I guess it's a win.
So yeah, all in all I'm really happy I picked up this comic years ago, and that I got a kick in the ass last month to start looking for the rest of the series. It was interesting and I might actually want to give it a reread in the future!
April 30, 2019
Answers the Final Questions of the Story? Yes.
Has an "Ending" ? Yes.
Veers into the exposition at full speed and gives you the score that was missing until now? Yes.
Is that both good and bad? No.
It's Good and "What it is" as that's going to be subjective lens for if the exposition helps or hinders you.
There is no degradation in the quality of the Art or Writing that I could notice. For a medium which is limited to X amount of pages, words, panels, and time I would appraise it as having succeeded.
Enjoyable. Gruesomely awesome.
Did not end as a "Waste of Time" but the regret of "Stories I wish I could have thought of."
Has an "Ending" ? Yes.
Veers into the exposition at full speed and gives you the score that was missing until now? Yes.
Is that both good and bad? No.
It's Good and "What it is" as that's going to be subjective lens for if the exposition helps or hinders you.
There is no degradation in the quality of the Art or Writing that I could notice. For a medium which is limited to X amount of pages, words, panels, and time I would appraise it as having succeeded.
Enjoyable. Gruesomely awesome.
Did not end as a "Waste of Time" but the regret of "Stories I wish I could have thought of."
December 12, 2017
Really enjoyed this series! Add to your reading list!
March 23, 2019
So much blood... and guts strewn everywhere. That said, I read the whole series in one sitting and enjoyed it greatly. I liked the art and I loved the gritty, dark storytelling.
June 25, 2025
3.5
Like volumes 1 and 2, No Absolution could have used a little more time to develop some things. That being said I did love the mythology Goodwin delivered here.
Like volumes 1 and 2, No Absolution could have used a little more time to develop some things. That being said I did love the mythology Goodwin delivered here.
February 24, 2026
i absolutely adored this series. i am a sucker for a twisted magical girl story and anything surprisingly gruesome and gory so its no surprise that this series is one of my favorite comic series ever. this series checked all the boxes of a story i loved, and i had a great time reading it.
however- i feel like they books kind of got worse as the series went on. i thought book 1 was nearly perfect, book 2 was good, and book 3 felt rushed and confusing. i had the same issue with this book that everyone else had with it. the mythology that was added to this book to try and explain things honestly just made things more confusing. it felt half baked, half explained, half done, half everything. i honestly could not explain the lore of the branches and whatnot to you if i tried. i also was just kind of not a fan of the way the story ended. i would have much preferred if addison stayed a teenager accidentally involved in something much bigger and much scarier than herself than being revealed as some magical creature the whole time, although thats just personal taste. i genuinely loved this series so so so so much. it had everything i love in a story, and am so so disappointed the final book ended the way it did. it did kind of taint my thoughts on the series a little bit as a whole, but i do still love the first book with all my heart, and regardless of the ending, think this series was worth my time
however- i feel like they books kind of got worse as the series went on. i thought book 1 was nearly perfect, book 2 was good, and book 3 felt rushed and confusing. i had the same issue with this book that everyone else had with it. the mythology that was added to this book to try and explain things honestly just made things more confusing. it felt half baked, half explained, half done, half everything. i honestly could not explain the lore of the branches and whatnot to you if i tried. i also was just kind of not a fan of the way the story ended. i would have much preferred if addison stayed a teenager accidentally involved in something much bigger and much scarier than herself than being revealed as some magical creature the whole time, although thats just personal taste. i genuinely loved this series so so so so much. it had everything i love in a story, and am so so disappointed the final book ended the way it did. it did kind of taint my thoughts on the series a little bit as a whole, but i do still love the first book with all my heart, and regardless of the ending, think this series was worth my time
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 3, 2017
I ended up liking it more than I expected. Again, great art. I think this could have been fleshed out more (maybe one more volume) to give the branches more depth. But overall, I enjoyed this volume a lot and it ended up raising my opinion of the series in general.
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