Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2 Review

 

Story: Zach Snyder

Writer: Gail Simone

Artist: Federico Bertoni

Colorist: Fares Maese

Letterer: Andworld Design

Cover Artists: Cathy Kwan, Federico Bertoni, Dev Pramanik & Claudia Ianniciello

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $4.99

Release Date: August 20, 2025

 

When her father left Tatan at Gwanggeato's monastery, he gave his daughter a journal. But the priests stripped away her individuality, leaving the girl nothing to write about. Now, Tatan opens her leather-bound volume. The names she writes inside define her pain. Tatan has visited the refuse planet Aradas, the pleasure planet Kalois, and the mausoleum planet Triausel. Not even her last stop at the garden planet of Eden could bring her joy. Where will she seek justice next? Let’s grab our swords, leap into Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2, and see!

 

Story

Tatan returned from the monastery with a husband. She resumed life with her father and mother and started a family. Among the skills the monks taught her, Tatan had a gift for wood carving. This came in handy when the Imperium requisitioned all the fish from their world, and her father defied them by poisoning the water.

 

While she hunts down the people who destroyed her life, Tatan remembers the one she chose. She left the monastery with one of her fellow pupils to have a family. After being sent away by her father and indoctrinated by the priests, Tatan embraced her new life fully. At least she did, until her father defied the Imperium, forcing her to become the sole provider.

 

In Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2, Zach Snyder and Gail Simone draw a parallel between her father’s decision to poison the lake and the Imperium’s rapacious actions. Yet the storytellers also compare Tatan with Ana Desdemona, the woman who carried out the Imperium’s wishes. Like Tatan, Ana was forced into a mold not of her choosing. Yet while Tatan rejected others’ dictates, Ana embraces them. And while Tatan’s father regrets his actions, Ana delights in hers.

 

Art

A woman trudges through the driving rain on an outpost moon of Falun. Her sandaled feet disappear beneath flowing streams. The tattered edges of her cape suggest birds’ wings as heavily armored soldiers steer her through the storm. Inside a Nissen hut, a doctor in a blood-splattered cape lights his pipe, attended by an armed guard. The instruments arrayed on his tray are likewise coated red.

 

As Federico Bertoni shows a purple dreadnaught speeding past colorful planets and suns, Fares Maese shows the red and pink energy propelling it. Yet the interior of the Marauder and the soldiers’ attire is as gray as the people and buildings on Falun’s moon. The colors clash with the verdant land surrounding a lake bordered by reeds and coated in floating lily pads. Then orange obliterates all the green in Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2.

 

Andworld Design fills white dialogue balloons with uppercase black letters and brown boxes with white uppercase narration. Larger white letters on transparent banners locate us in time and space. Looming white numbers follow Nemesis' countdown to Ana. Sound effects accompany rifle fire and explosions. Hand-printed white letters hover over logographic symbols on tan paper aging with brown and red. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2 compares two women who had to make hard choices to survive. They’re more alike than they would care to admit. Yet one delights in becoming a monster, while the other wishes things could have been different.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see my preview of Rebel Moon: Nemesis #2.