Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his right identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret…
Perfectly rendered, this first installment of Twilight: The Graphic Novel is a must-have for any collector’s library.
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I am of the opinion that Ms Meyers is looking for ANY way to make a buck on her thought – even to the point of releasing half the first book – ‘course when I preordered it, I don’t recall Vol. 1 – why couldn’t this have been the whole thing? I’ll answer my own question – dollars! I have nothing against a name getting rich – yea for them! But don’t do it so that it cheats others. If this is what will be done to all the books, we are talking 8 volumes here – or more, since the books got thicker as she wrote along.
I was really disappointed and, frankly, I won’t be suckered into getting any more. The “art” does NOT make up for the cheat.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
First let me say that the artwork in this book is lovely. The drawings are detailed and really play up the beauty of the main charactes (though I agree with an earlier reviewer who said they all look very similar). They don’t look like my vision of Bella and Edward, but having already been through that with movie, I can live with it. What bugs me most about this book is one small annoying detail that keeps me looking at individual drawings rather than immersing myself in the tale: The stupid drop of moisture that sometimes appears (and sometimes does not) on Bella’s face. What on planet is it supposed to be? Tears? Sweat? Rain? Is Bella a member of the Crips? It’s inexplicable and the fact that it’s only there sometimes constantly yanks the viewer out of the tale and into a Twilight version of “Where’s (or What’s) Waldo”. I realize that this seems like nitpicking, but for a name like me who likes the Twilight books (rather than the movies) first and foremost, the graphic novel format is hard enough to get into lacking additional distractors. Silly small details like this render the graphic novel an appealing, but ultimately unsatisfying, companion piece to the books that I’m embarrassed to like.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Although it pains me to say this, I did feel there was something to be desired with this new addition to the Twilight saga. Being a fan of the series, I was left wanting more emotion from the graphic novel. While it has been widely acknowledged that the writing in Twilight isn’t perhaps the most intricate or challenging, at least it left me feeling giddy with every page. When reading the original book, like many additional females, we fell in like with Edward’s character; the graphic novel failed to do so.
Being an avid manga reader, I reflect the particular style of the graphic novel stalled it rather than helped. The font was off and awkward; same goes for the odd placement of the bubbles that took up too much space. Unlike traditional manga, the font is supposed to convey the emotion with size and type of font and this was not done. My largest complaint would be the lack of emotion in the characters’ eyes. Manga is all about expression through the eyes and sorry to say, in this graphic novel, they were empty. Now I reflect Young did an incredible job with the graphics and visuals, when looking at them individually but when putting it all together, I felt a loss of tie between the characters and environment.
All in all, I reflect this needs editing in order to be more successful. I reflect Young Kim should go back to the basics and make the graphic novel more traditionally manga because that’s what’s appealing about this genre. As far as the tale goes, perhaps it needs to be written in a way where it isn’t as choppy and disconnected. Overall, it was fun to see Twilight in a new light but unless this all-purpose lack of tie is changed, I don’t reflect many will go back to get the second volume.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The drawings are really elegant in this series, and I loved the characterizations. Edward’s eye color changes were brought to life perfectly in this illustrated version in a way I glossed over and forgot about in the novel (despite Meyers repeated use of words like Smoldering and Topaz). There were several really gorgeous “moments” when a character would glance away or smile that really brought more life to them than the written descriptions ever did. There is some awkwardness in the art – the speech bubbles were very clumsy and took up far too much space and the live-action trace overs were permanently awkwardly placed and felt random and out of place among the more elegant drawings of the characters and settings. In particular the dream sequences with the wolf made me laugh, because of the incongruity.
The tale worked MUCH better as a manga than it ever did as a novel; the shallowness of the like tale worked well as a pre-teen comic that many girls’ mangas are. But, even in this area it is still a mediocre tale. The dialogue scenes were even more painfully tedious when stretched out into drawings. I wish that they hadn’t published it in a hardcover edition, which is unwieldy for pages devoted to comicking and art.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is going to sound like the dumbest review ever and I despise to admit that I was ignortant to what a “graphic” novel was before alternative up this book. I assumed that since Twilight was not orginally written for a teen audience that the graphic part was more of an “rated R” version of the first book. So, as you can imagine, I was disapointed. I did but delight in reading the tale from a different perspective. I have to agree with the additional poster though, what is with the tear/sweat bead on Bella’s face?
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5