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Hooky Volume 3
by Míriam Bonastre Tur
Crying because I love Hooky so much.
The art continues to stun and feel like magic visualized on the page. The older designs for the characters! They are so perfect. The journeys these characters have gone on! Hooky remains adorable and delightful and magical with depth and darkness (and humor too!) My only critique remains the pacing–and I cannot say how that all plays out in the Webtoon version (yet) but I imagine it to be steadier with a more rewarding pay-off. As it is, the time jump was so much fun and gave the story/world a pause and boost, but it felt a little rushed. We pick up after years and we can feel those missing years. I'd like to know more about the development of the characters in between volumes and I think the story would benefit from exploring that development on the page. Individual moments remain skillfully written and executed, but they are strung together with a pulsing, speeding energy. I think the story and the development we do get on the page needed some breathing room. In the end the rush made this final volume not stick with me as much as the others. But aside from that, this story has pretty much everything you could want. And I love it. So much.
I need more stories like this, and I'd really happily take some aimed at adults.
I see myself revisiting this one often.
The art continues to stun and feel like magic visualized on the page. The older designs for the characters! They are so perfect. The journeys these characters have gone on! Hooky remains adorable and delightful and magical with depth and darkness (and humor too!) My only critique remains the pacing–and I cannot say how that all plays out in the Webtoon version (yet) but I imagine it to be steadier with a more rewarding pay-off. As it is, the time jump was so much fun and gave the story/world a pause and boost, but it felt a little rushed. We pick up after years and we can feel those missing years. I'd like to know more about the development of the characters in between volumes and I think the story would benefit from exploring that development on the page. Individual moments remain skillfully written and executed, but they are strung together with a pulsing, speeding energy. I think the story and the development we do get on the page needed some breathing room. In the end the rush made this final volume not stick with me as much as the others. But aside from that, this story has pretty much everything you could want. And I love it. So much.
I need more stories like this, and I'd really happily take some aimed at adults.
I see myself revisiting this one often.