Just read the graphic novel BEAST by Marian Churchland. It was fabulous. The art was fresh, beautiful, dynamic, the story an interesting new version of "Beauty and the Beast." In it, a sculptor called Colette is offered a dream commission to sculpt a marble portrait of her benefactor. She arrives at the derelict mansion where she is to do the job and discovers that the subject is to be a strange but (in my opinion) beautiful shadow-creature known as Beast.
Things I liked: extremely appealing aesthetic, well-written, not as maudlin or explicitly laid out as your average Beast update.
Things I didn't like: rather unsatisfying ending, in my opinion.
Verdict: Read it now.
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About Me
- E. A. Weatherfield
- I am a student at Webster University outside of St. Louis, Missouri. I hate when the music is turned down so you can just tell it's playing but can't hear it, and I believe pasta should always be buttered.
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