Twilight Graphic Novel: Part 5
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zelda_queenZeldaQueen: In which we are introduced to the drawn version of Dances With Plot.
Projection Room Voices: Starting Media in 3...2...1...
Part 5
ZeldaQueen: So it's now Saturday, and Bella is off to go to the La Push beach
ZeldaQueen: I'm not entirely sure why Bella had that pause before the "Yes". Actually, I'm not entirely sure why she responded with "Yes" at all. "I'm glad you have friends to hang out with" isn't really a "Yes/No" question. Not a question at all, really. Okay, I'm done
ZeldaQueen: So everyone's at each, and everyone not named Bella is having fun. Really, all that page does is emphasize how dour Bella constantly is and how much nicer it would be to be friends with the plebeian Forks High masses.
So there's a lot of pictures of everyone hanging out and doing stuff, and it's actually pretty nice. There's minimal narration and while Bella never cracks a smile, she does look less pissy than normal. After a page or so of this, cue the Hot La Push Boys!
ZeldaQueen: People, just try and tell me with a straight face that he doesn't look like a girl. Go on.
So yeah, that androgynous fellow up there is Jacob Black. He instantly starts going kissy-kissy to Bella's rear and amazingly, Young Kim does draw it so that Bella looks marginally interested in his car-building. For no reason at all, and I'm dead serious when I say no reason, Lauren gets pissy and spitefully interrupts the conversation. What's that? Why haven't I brought Lauren up before now? Well...she hasn't been mentioned at all before now. In fact, if this pointless scene was taken out, we could have gone for the entire graphic novel without a word about her
ZeldaQueen: You know, Lauren's bitchiness makes even less sense here. This is the first time she's ever showed up! And really, her train of thought is just screwy. I...guess the idea is supposed to be that Lauren is pointlessly jealous that Bella is being familiar with a hot, young guy and randomly decides that the best way to ruin her fun is to imply that she's an ungracious friend for not inviting the Cullens. I mean, I think that's how it's supposed to go. Otherwise, all I can gather is that Lauren is PO'd that Bella is talking to Jacob and randomly brings up that the Cullens couldn't make it.
Actually, I suspect that that right there is the only reason Lauren was kept at all. She gets to bring up the fact that the Cullens aren't allowed on the La Push beach. Classy. Well, that was the set-up so...
ZeldaQueen: AUGH! What is up with their faces?!? They look like they're either soulless dolls or they're high! Or both! Is this supposed to be foreshadowing that they're werewolves? Are all supernatural creatures naturally squinty and creepy? Or is that just Young Kim's default face for "I'm delivering stunning and significant exposition"?
*shivers* Alrighty, so Bella instantly latches on to how that is OH SO IMPORTANT! To give the devil her due, I'd probably figure there was something going on if a guy looked like that while saying it.
Bella and Jacob go off together and have their talk and this actually is very nice. There is no internal narration from Bella at all, so we're spared her constantly descriptions of how she's trying to flirt with him for information and whatnot. Instead, she actually sounds curious and amazingly she freaking smiles. Alright then!
ZeldaQueen: I just love how bored Bella looks until the Wonderful Sparkly Vampires are mentioned. I mean, just look at that first panel! She looks like she's about two seconds from falling asleep! "Uh huh...that's nice...yes...I see...zzzzzz" *thud as her head falls off of her hand*
And it's quite jarring, because like I said, not two panels ago she was laughing and walking around. Is this supposed to be symbolic of how it's Serious Story Time?
We get a few panels which illustrate the story as Jacob tells it, which blessedly spares us from yet another bout of watching people just sit and talk without being shown anything interesting. Like the movie, Jacob's grandfather is drawn as a stereotype, but the vampire is also drawn in a black cloak and with bats around him, so it does give the impression that Bella's just imagining things in a stereotypical manner, or at least it's an attempt to hide who the peaceful vampire is, instead of outright showing us "It's Carlisle". Anywho, the whole thing wraps up with Jacob outright telling Bella that the Cullens are the same vampires who made the treaty. Yeah.
We then jump to Bella's OVERLY SYMBOLIK DREAM, which I'm going to say right now is really nice. It's like the bit with the blood-testing lab - the color change is nicely creepy, the story pacing in it's nice, and all in all the atmosphere's really interesting. It honestly makes me wish that this was just a straight-up horror story instead of frittering around with the shoujo romance.
ZeldaQueen: And yes, here comes Edward. I wonder why this reminds me of A Walk in Wolf Woods, where the devil gives the kid that potion that transforms him into a monster while he screams?
ZeldaQueen: Yes, because I would totally trust someone who looks like that! For heaven's sake, NO! That does NOT make me think that Edward is sexy and exciting, anymore than I think that Loren Blake is!
And am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious that we get the top panel with Edward being all scary and seductive and then jump to the werewolf just springing from the side while Edward has this petulant, puffy expression on his face?
ZeldaQueen: Is it just me, or does it look like Edward's blowing the wolf a raspberry? It would certainly explain that wide-eyed, pissy look the wolf has. I honestly can't take that panel seriously!
So yeah, Bella spends two pages looking up vampires online, which is done in some picto-montage way, giving the impression that she was online for two seconds. She then has her canon walk through the woods, where she decides that she's just peachy with Edward being a vampire or....whatever. Well, idiocy aside, the drawings are very nice. I am especially fond of the use of lighting through the trees.
Onward to: Part 6
Back to: Part 4
Return to: Table of Contents
Projection Room Voices: Starting Media in 3...2...1...
Part 5
ZeldaQueen: So it's now Saturday, and Bella is off to go to the La Push beach
ZeldaQueen: I'm not entirely sure why Bella had that pause before the "Yes". Actually, I'm not entirely sure why she responded with "Yes" at all. "I'm glad you have friends to hang out with" isn't really a "Yes/No" question. Not a question at all, really. Okay, I'm done
ZeldaQueen: So everyone's at each, and everyone not named Bella is having fun. Really, all that page does is emphasize how dour Bella constantly is and how much nicer it would be to be friends with the plebeian Forks High masses.
So there's a lot of pictures of everyone hanging out and doing stuff, and it's actually pretty nice. There's minimal narration and while Bella never cracks a smile, she does look less pissy than normal. After a page or so of this, cue the Hot La Push Boys!
ZeldaQueen: People, just try and tell me with a straight face that he doesn't look like a girl. Go on.
So yeah, that androgynous fellow up there is Jacob Black. He instantly starts going kissy-kissy to Bella's rear and amazingly, Young Kim does draw it so that Bella looks marginally interested in his car-building. For no reason at all, and I'm dead serious when I say no reason, Lauren gets pissy and spitefully interrupts the conversation. What's that? Why haven't I brought Lauren up before now? Well...she hasn't been mentioned at all before now. In fact, if this pointless scene was taken out, we could have gone for the entire graphic novel without a word about her
ZeldaQueen: You know, Lauren's bitchiness makes even less sense here. This is the first time she's ever showed up! And really, her train of thought is just screwy. I...guess the idea is supposed to be that Lauren is pointlessly jealous that Bella is being familiar with a hot, young guy and randomly decides that the best way to ruin her fun is to imply that she's an ungracious friend for not inviting the Cullens. I mean, I think that's how it's supposed to go. Otherwise, all I can gather is that Lauren is PO'd that Bella is talking to Jacob and randomly brings up that the Cullens couldn't make it.
Actually, I suspect that that right there is the only reason Lauren was kept at all. She gets to bring up the fact that the Cullens aren't allowed on the La Push beach. Classy. Well, that was the set-up so...
ZeldaQueen: AUGH! What is up with their faces?!? They look like they're either soulless dolls or they're high! Or both! Is this supposed to be foreshadowing that they're werewolves? Are all supernatural creatures naturally squinty and creepy? Or is that just Young Kim's default face for "I'm delivering stunning and significant exposition"?
*shivers* Alrighty, so Bella instantly latches on to how that is OH SO IMPORTANT! To give the devil her due, I'd probably figure there was something going on if a guy looked like that while saying it.
Bella and Jacob go off together and have their talk and this actually is very nice. There is no internal narration from Bella at all, so we're spared her constantly descriptions of how she's trying to flirt with him for information and whatnot. Instead, she actually sounds curious and amazingly she freaking smiles. Alright then!
ZeldaQueen: I just love how bored Bella looks until the Wonderful Sparkly Vampires are mentioned. I mean, just look at that first panel! She looks like she's about two seconds from falling asleep! "Uh huh...that's nice...yes...I see...zzzzzz" *thud as her head falls off of her hand*
And it's quite jarring, because like I said, not two panels ago she was laughing and walking around. Is this supposed to be symbolic of how it's Serious Story Time?
We get a few panels which illustrate the story as Jacob tells it, which blessedly spares us from yet another bout of watching people just sit and talk without being shown anything interesting. Like the movie, Jacob's grandfather is drawn as a stereotype, but the vampire is also drawn in a black cloak and with bats around him, so it does give the impression that Bella's just imagining things in a stereotypical manner, or at least it's an attempt to hide who the peaceful vampire is, instead of outright showing us "It's Carlisle". Anywho, the whole thing wraps up with Jacob outright telling Bella that the Cullens are the same vampires who made the treaty. Yeah.
We then jump to Bella's OVERLY SYMBOLIK DREAM, which I'm going to say right now is really nice. It's like the bit with the blood-testing lab - the color change is nicely creepy, the story pacing in it's nice, and all in all the atmosphere's really interesting. It honestly makes me wish that this was just a straight-up horror story instead of frittering around with the shoujo romance.
ZeldaQueen: And yes, here comes Edward. I wonder why this reminds me of A Walk in Wolf Woods, where the devil gives the kid that potion that transforms him into a monster while he screams?
ZeldaQueen: Yes, because I would totally trust someone who looks like that! For heaven's sake, NO! That does NOT make me think that Edward is sexy and exciting, anymore than I think that Loren Blake is!
And am I the only one who thinks it's hilarious that we get the top panel with Edward being all scary and seductive and then jump to the werewolf just springing from the side while Edward has this petulant, puffy expression on his face?
ZeldaQueen: Is it just me, or does it look like Edward's blowing the wolf a raspberry? It would certainly explain that wide-eyed, pissy look the wolf has. I honestly can't take that panel seriously!
So yeah, Bella spends two pages looking up vampires online, which is done in some picto-montage way, giving the impression that she was online for two seconds. She then has her canon walk through the woods, where she decides that she's just peachy with Edward being a vampire or....whatever. Well, idiocy aside, the drawings are very nice. I am especially fond of the use of lighting through the trees.
Onward to: Part 6
Back to: Part 4
Return to: Table of Contents