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A review by ashra
Constantine: Distorted Illusions by Kami Garcia
4.0
I have never heard of John Constantine and completely picked this up on vibes, so that is the perspective I am coming from <3
This was cute!!! and the art style is KILLER. Oh my GOSH. The presentation? The different pages organized around a location or an emotion or a symbolic item??? That's so insanely COOL???
Constantine and his friends' outfits are truly the heroes of this book. Every single outfit had me staring. They are all so punk and inventive and fun!! Again, my favorite part of the graphic novel.
The art is so great that it really, really elevates the experience. The story... was really strong for the first half! I was invested. Then they introduce the love interest who has very little character shown (she wants to learn magic... she's stern? she has parental issues?) and I just can't keep my interest up man. Veronica was my favorite, the best friend. Not that she should've dated Constantine, I think their relationship was great how it was, but she's just an example of a much stronger side character in the same story - very headstrong, we can see her personality clearly through her outfit, super relaxed. We really get a sense of that! But not so much Luna whose name I barely remembered.
Constantine is super cute though and definitely part of why I am ranking this so high. His emotions really come through, and he made me laugh multiple times. And the part with his dad at the and??? My heart broke. Anyways, Constantine's aesthetic is too powerful and I would be doing him a disservice if I rated him and his vibes any lower <3 I don't know anything about the character he's based off of so I just think he is cool and neat and I would like to protect him even if he is a little stink
This was cute!!! and the art style is KILLER. Oh my GOSH. The presentation? The different pages organized around a location or an emotion or a symbolic item??? That's so insanely COOL???
Constantine and his friends' outfits are truly the heroes of this book. Every single outfit had me staring. They are all so punk and inventive and fun!! Again, my favorite part of the graphic novel.
The art is so great that it really, really elevates the experience. The story... was really strong for the first half! I was invested. Then they introduce the love interest who has very little character shown (she wants to learn magic... she's stern? she has parental issues?) and I just can't keep my interest up man. Veronica was my favorite, the best friend. Not that she should've dated Constantine, I think their relationship was great how it was, but she's just an example of a much stronger side character in the same story - very headstrong, we can see her personality clearly through her outfit, super relaxed. We really get a sense of that! But not so much Luna whose name I barely remembered.
Constantine is super cute though and definitely part of why I am ranking this so high. His emotions really come through, and he made me laugh multiple times. And the part with his dad at the and??? My heart broke.