Rollercoaster
Jan. 3rd, 2024 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impyRead my SVT graphic novel version of Choosing Sides today and I have thoughts.
We have a character list at the back of the book! Huzzah! Not everyone is listed but it is a start and I will take it.
Spoilers or me being bitchy, you decide. I think I know why they flip-flopped the books. In the grand tradition of driving me bonkers by switching artists, Book 4 is being done by a different artist. Which explains my rollercoaster of emotions.
The preview image of Nora didn't look great but I was just so happy to see her, y'know? Then we get a preview of her in this book, in the current artist's style, and I am in love! So pretty!
The book ends, we get our character list (eeeeeeeee!) and then there's the preview for the next book. Which I'd peeked at when I saw the book up for preorder but hadn't really, really looked at. Um... this Nora is not the same. These twins are not the same. I have not been so excited for something and then so disappointed by the art and my fear for how it'll be in a very, very long time.
I think I'd still be riding high on the Nora adaptation eeee if not for seeing what I could have gotten instead of what we will. I'm trying to remain optimistic... but I hate it when I get used to one artist and then get thrown a new one without warning.
Still, looked up the new artist online and we shall see. It is weird that the preview for Choosing Sides focused on the Mercandy thing at the end vs the storyline we get.
Ken shows up and he looks nothing like Ken. He's cute but not Ken. Blond!Bruce is still so wrong on so many levels and I refuse to accept 80's movie beefy bully as Bruce fucking Patman.
We have a character list at the back of the book! Huzzah! Not everyone is listed but it is a start and I will take it.
Spoilers or me being bitchy, you decide. I think I know why they flip-flopped the books. In the grand tradition of driving me bonkers by switching artists, Book 4 is being done by a different artist. Which explains my rollercoaster of emotions.
The preview image of Nora didn't look great but I was just so happy to see her, y'know? Then we get a preview of her in this book, in the current artist's style, and I am in love! So pretty!
The book ends, we get our character list (eeeeeeeee!) and then there's the preview for the next book. Which I'd peeked at when I saw the book up for preorder but hadn't really, really looked at. Um... this Nora is not the same. These twins are not the same. I have not been so excited for something and then so disappointed by the art and my fear for how it'll be in a very, very long time.
I think I'd still be riding high on the Nora adaptation eeee if not for seeing what I could have gotten instead of what we will. I'm trying to remain optimistic... but I hate it when I get used to one artist and then get thrown a new one without warning.
Still, looked up the new artist online and we shall see. It is weird that the preview for Choosing Sides focused on the Mercandy thing at the end vs the storyline we get.
Ken shows up and he looks nothing like Ken. He's cute but not Ken. Blond!Bruce is still so wrong on so many levels and I refuse to accept 80's movie beefy bully as Bruce fucking Patman.
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Date: 2024-01-04 04:49 pm (UTC)Okay, on the Hawaiian book, I always thought Janet was on the left with the bob because she looks a little older and has darker hair than Ellen did, and she's also got the mole that's the plot point in her storyline. Isn't there a mole? I swear I see one by the left side of her mouth. That meant Ellen, who was formerly cute on Buried Treasure and Class Trip, was the one with bangs at the top. She looks a little airheaded. Jump ahead to #66 and I thought it was Ellen on the upper left. Same kind of airheaded expression. Then Janet was in black sitting with Lila, because older = taller and cousins sitting together. But then on #80, that's clearly Ellen and she's back to having the short bob and really cute face. Which neither of them had on #66. ARGH.
I want to say Unicorns Go Hawaiian was one of the first of the series I actually owned. I can't remember if I even read it first or how I started reading the series. I don't think I did it in order. If I did, I must have gotten them from the library or something. But I think I picked this up and then grabbed whatever else was still on the shelves in KMart or wherever I was shopping. It wasn't a bookstore. I know for sure #50 was my first of the actual series, so wherever I was only had the more recent books. So my initial assumptions over who was who on the cover could very well be wrong.
Considering how much the characters change from cover to cover, she can easily be Ellen for you and Janet for me.
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Date: 2024-01-05 04:15 pm (UTC)Part of me wants to dig Go Hawaiian out to see if there is a mole (I don't see one on the covers I can find online but I'm not gonna say there isn't one) but my laziness shall win out once more.
I just always chalked the short hair up to Ellen and went with my theory that Janet wasn't actually all that pretty (sorry, airheaded brunette) but had basically decreed herself Pretty and Popular and through sheer force of will had gotten others to go along with it. So for me it was less airhead and more "Yes, peasants, I am the greatest,aren't I?" But since the only two Unicorns who tended to look similar across book covers were Mary and Lila, cute bob can definitely be your Janet and my Ellen. :D