Reading a Marissa Meyer book without her immersive narration was an odd adjustment, but, for the most part, the author succeeded in telling a compelling story. His panel layouts, use of spacing, coloring, and the character’s body language make the illustrations look distinct and more expressive. In comparison, Gilpin’s illustrations capture the many tones of Marissa Meyer’s story.
Even during scenes without much action, his drawings feel lifeless.
Holgate uses the same few perspectives in his illustrations and the same panel layouts, limiting the feeling of movement during fight scenes in volume one. Though Gilpin was recruited to imitate Holgate’s art style for Gone Rogue, his illustrations and panel formatting surpass his predecessor’s work. The Wires and Nerve comics have different illustrators for each book: Doug Holgate and Stephen Gilpin. Overview: The illustrations compliment Marissa Meyer’s impeccable storytelling.
Overview: Great set-up for the second volume of the story, but the lackluster illustrations distract me from the story.ĭate Read: July 25th, 2019 – July 26th, 2019 Number of Books: 2 (sequel companions to The Lunar Chronicles)ĭ ate Read: July 11th, 2019 – July 13th, 2019 Set after the events of The Lunar Chronicles (but before the Stars Above epilogue), feature many of the same characters with Iko as the main protagonist…along with a brand-new villain, and maybe a certain Lunar guard as well.Īge Group: 12+ (little profanity mild violence) Ages 12 up.Minor spoilers for The Lunar Chronicles and both Wires and Nerve comics. Holgate's dynamic, stylized artwork handily balances the story's action and humor while bringing Meyer's world to vivid life. (And compared to her other fairytale friends, she is.) Yet, Iko is left questioning her own humanity, misreading romantic tension with a royal guard and perhaps finding disturbing commonality with the wolf-soldiers who have one goal in mind: to force Cinder to cure the mutations that turned them into monsters. Iko is an entertainingly flippant yet formidable heroine, a former servant droid who now inhabits an escort's body and takes on bloodthirsty enemies as though she were invincible. Unlike some of the previous novels, this story doesn't require preexisting knowledge of the series, easily catching up fans and new readers alike with capsule introductions to Cress and other members of the Rampion crew in a prologue. This time, Meyer focuses on Iko, Cinder's cheeky sidekick and an assassin agent sent to hunt down the wolf-soldier hybrids that are plaguing Earth.
A muted palette of black and denim blue lends a bleak, sooty undertone to the world of Meyer's Lunar Chronicles in this graphic novel spinoff.
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