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A review by thomas_edmund
Fever Moon by Karen Marie Moning
3.0
As a graphic novel produced by an already established Urban Fantasy author, I think it's worth providing a reviewer disclaimer: I'm not too familiar with the Fever series, and this graphic novel was my first foray into this authors work.
First impressions?
Boobs.
Apologies for being crude, but I challenge anyone to pick up this piece and not at least consider whether the protagonist suffered back problems.
OK now thats out of the way, in terms of the 'graphic' part of Fevermoon the artwork was pretty badass, the dark and magical world is well conveyed in ink, and some of the supernatural stuff looked awesome. In the same breath some of the pages felt a little 'posed' and I could have sworn cut and paste was used to for some of the minor characters.
The 'novel' part fared a little worse in my assessment. While the bad-guy was unique and scary, the plot consisted largely of name and concept dropping between the main character driving around in nice sports cars until she confronted the antagonist. I don't want to be too spoilerly, but Moning's attempt to rev the tension up, and how the baddie was ultimately defeated fell a little flat for me.
So in all, a great escapist hour or two, but I'm unlikely to bring Fevermoon up in a conversation about the best graphic novels ever.
First impressions?
Boobs.
Apologies for being crude, but I challenge anyone to pick up this piece and not at least consider whether the protagonist suffered back problems.
OK now thats out of the way, in terms of the 'graphic' part of Fevermoon the artwork was pretty badass, the dark and magical world is well conveyed in ink, and some of the supernatural stuff looked awesome. In the same breath some of the pages felt a little 'posed' and I could have sworn cut and paste was used to for some of the minor characters.
The 'novel' part fared a little worse in my assessment. While the bad-guy was unique and scary, the plot consisted largely of name and concept dropping between the main character driving around in nice sports cars until she confronted the antagonist. I don't want to be too spoilerly, but Moning's attempt to rev the tension up, and how the baddie was ultimately defeated fell a little flat for me.
So in all, a great escapist hour or two, but I'm unlikely to bring Fevermoon up in a conversation about the best graphic novels ever.