Disney Publishing

Lifeless. A committee of people in an Italian Disney subsidiary or licensee sat down and created a teen property. It has social media, emojis, chibis, hashtags, and diversity. They only forgot soul.

Three girls who barely know each other get detention together. They create a social profile for their amalgamation of a dream boy. A day later said boy shows up at school. Instead of being freaked out or putting in much beyond a token effort to find out where he came from, the girls start competing to see who gets to kiss him first. And this goes on for over 300 pages. As can be expected by the #1 on the cover, the final chapter is more the barest hint at the mysteries behind the enigmatic boy than a conclusion.

The art isn't bad, but I never got used to reading the blue lettering in all the word balloons.

And I certainly never got used to reading those words in blue. Maybe it makes more sense in Italian or if I were Italian? Honestly, when I was reading Disney Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and Mickey Mouse comics regularly (which was well into my 30s), I always dreaded the Italian stories they crammed in between the magnificent Carl Barks and Don Rosa reprints. These don't seem to be the same creators, but I think there is some disconnect between what Italian comic book writers think is funny and what I find funny. I rarely laughed then, and I didn't laugh now.

I cannot believe how much of my real life I wasted reading this.… (lisätietoja)