Comic Vol 2-3
Sep. 30th, 2008 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreUhm, yes. I won’t be reading any more of this one.
I like the bits with Alice applying herself and wanting to learn more about being an artist and becoming a better manhwaga, but too much of it seems to revolve around humiliating her and being mean to her. If it were for personal growth or journey, I wouldn’t mind, but most of it is for comedic effect. In addition, the bulk of the plot boils down to “boy wants revenge on girl for his being a jerk.”
If the manhwaga realized what an unlikable jerk Patrick is, it’d be different, but s/he seems to think he’s cool and sympathetic and likable. In addition, the first female character besides Alice to show up for more than five pages and have more n her mind than how hot Patrick is is quickly reduced to an Evil Interferer and False Friend. I’d count off for using her wanting to be a lawyer as evidence that she’s stuck up and bad news, but Alice’s ambitions for her own career balance that out. Or at least, make it better than it would have been otherwise. I could get past that normally, but not in combination with everything else.
One thing I will say, though, is that the first two volumes were printed by Ice Kunion, and the third by Yen Press after Ice Kunion went out of business. The improvement in production quality is pretty impressive.
I like the bits with Alice applying herself and wanting to learn more about being an artist and becoming a better manhwaga, but too much of it seems to revolve around humiliating her and being mean to her. If it were for personal growth or journey, I wouldn’t mind, but most of it is for comedic effect. In addition, the bulk of the plot boils down to “boy wants revenge on girl for his being a jerk.”
If the manhwaga realized what an unlikable jerk Patrick is, it’d be different, but s/he seems to think he’s cool and sympathetic and likable. In addition, the first female character besides Alice to show up for more than five pages and have more n her mind than how hot Patrick is is quickly reduced to an Evil Interferer and False Friend. I’d count off for using her wanting to be a lawyer as evidence that she’s stuck up and bad news, but Alice’s ambitions for her own career balance that out. Or at least, make it better than it would have been otherwise. I could get past that normally, but not in combination with everything else.
One thing I will say, though, is that the first two volumes were printed by Ice Kunion, and the third by Yen Press after Ice Kunion went out of business. The improvement in production quality is pretty impressive.