WardenRed reviewed Moonstruck Vol. 1: Magic to brew by Grace Ellis (Moonstruck, #1)
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3 stars
There you go, a drink that's almost as strong as you are.
Well, this was weird.
On the surface, this comic looked like something I was bound to enjoy: magic, coffee, friendship, queer monster community, what's not to love? And the first few pages did look promising. Except very soon, I started getting kind of overwhelmed. There are lots of characters, especially when you add in the advice columns and those interludes that are (I think???) just excerpts from in-universe books the characters like. Everything is happening at once and no one really gets any focused screen time. Not even the leads most of the time, because there's always something else going on in the background, more banter happening, more characters popping up.
Combine all that with the art style that didn't really work for me (objectively, it's GOOD! subjectively, there's something about the colors and the shapes here that …
There you go, a drink that's almost as strong as you are.
Well, this was weird.
On the surface, this comic looked like something I was bound to enjoy: magic, coffee, friendship, queer monster community, what's not to love? And the first few pages did look promising. Except very soon, I started getting kind of overwhelmed. There are lots of characters, especially when you add in the advice columns and those interludes that are (I think???) just excerpts from in-universe books the characters like. Everything is happening at once and no one really gets any focused screen time. Not even the leads most of the time, because there's always something else going on in the background, more banter happening, more characters popping up.
Combine all that with the art style that didn't really work for me (objectively, it's GOOD! subjectively, there's something about the colors and the shapes here that makes it hard for my brain to grok them), and, alas, I can't say I enjoyed the ride. I did enjoy its potential, and there were a few spots that did make me smile.
