Oh, individual characters are identifiable enough and it's not as if you can't tell one character from another, but they all have that same sparkling beauty that's allegedly reserved for these vampires.įurther complicating matters, there is not one border gutter in the whole book. But the art really makes everyone look pretty much the same. To complicate matters, the text suggests the vampires look different than other folks. Not to mention some bizarre leaps of in-story logic that make 1940s comics look completely sensible by comparison. The more action-oriented scenes are completely incomprehensible, and the reader can only infer what happened by reading the dialogue several pages later. ![]() There are sudden, disconnected scene changes throughout the book. Characters say things that seem like they ought to relate back to something else, but you're not sure what. Even setting aside the already-much-maligned-elsewhere piss-poor lettering, the actual comic just comes across as a bunch of random scenes that seem like they ought to be connected somehow but really aren't. That's what reading Twilight: The Graphic Novel was like. Hell, even the porthole window changes from round in one panel to square in the next! There's kind of a vague sense of story progression, but it kind of feels like somebody tore out every other page. Now, did you notice in that Whizzer story how it didn't make a lick of sense? Characters are doing and saying things almost randomly, scenes change abruptly and for no reason. It is, I think, pretty critical to understanding what I think about Twilight: The Graphic Novel.ĭone? Good. Please take a moment to read through that Whizzer story above. The superhero story about The Whizzer from All Winners Comics #2, to be precise. I actually found it strangely interesting how many parallels it had compared to a 1940's comic story I just happened to read earlier in the week. So, is the comic version of this story any good? What are the actual merits of Twilight: The Graphic Novel as a piece of sequential art? I haven't read the books or seen the movie, and going into this, the entirety of my knowledge about the Twilight saga is that it's some kind of love story with sparkling vampires. ![]() So, for as much vitriol has been thrown at Twilight from comic book fans, I thought I'd try to read the graphic novel with as unbiased a view as possible. And so, combining the convergent fandoms of supernatural Young Adult novels, romance enthusiasts and manga readers, though somewhat lost to time now, the Twilight manga was still a sparkling success for Yen Press in its heyday.I'd like to think that you all know me as someone who's not going to go around haterating on something or someone for no reason. This can be attributed to just how much of a mainstream juggernaut Twilight as a franchise was over a decade ago, with anything bearing its title being a license to print money. These books had the same glossy and manga-based art style, though they didn't quite get the same amount of success as the Twlight manga. Other western titles that saw a similar manga treatment from the publisher included James Patterson's Maximum Ride series and Beautiful Creatures from Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. It was published by Yen Press, which also handled other manga adaptations of western works, as well as Original English Language manga. The popularity of the manga led to the creation of a manga version of New Moon, though its second part was delayed indefinitely, likely due to the franchise's falling popularity after the Twilight movies ended. Shojo manga are also many times romance or drama stories, and, of course, Twilight, as a whole, fits into that niche perfectly. Things that would usually be melodramatic in text alone are made more colorful in the medium, even in black and white, making even the most mundane scenes ooze with sensuality and romanticism. Given the shading and art style, the characters resemble the concurrent "emo" fad of the time more than ever - a trend that, in many cases, became synonymous with young Twilight fans. In addition, Edward's controversial "sparkling" is even more flamboyant, and it fits into the manga better than in any other version of the story. Young boys, in particular, are given a delicate handsomeness in these books, and Edward in the manga version of Twilight is no different. ![]() ![]() As mentioned, Young Kim's art is blatantly evocative of shojo manga, which is known for featuring casts that almost entirely consist of the excessively pretty. Releasing its first volume five years after the original novel came out, the book was made by Korean artist Young Kim. Though officially called Twilight: The Graphic Novel, the Twilight comic book adaptation had a much more stylistic resemblance to a typical shojo manga.
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