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: 2024-01-05 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