Lapaix, Juan – Faire #1

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Faire #1

Here’s the first line from the book, and you can tell me what you think: “Like all other fairy tales, this one starts like all the others.” Now, class, can you break that sentence down and tell me what’s wrong with it? I don’t mean to pick on Juan, but I get the overwhelming impression from this that English isn’t his first language. There’s not a thing wrong with that, but if it’s in English, that’s what the majority of your audience is going to be reading, so get an editor! Ahem. The story is about a young, lonely girl who doesn’t fit into any of the cliques in high school, but she is into the dark arts. So, naturally, a “Pan” comes down to make her taller and her boobs much, much bigger. He also throws in some powers. Apparently these powers come with a price, but we’re not going to learn about that until the next issue. Pet peeve alert: in two sentences, one after the other, he uses “there” and “their” in “there boss” and “their queen”. Maybe he didn’t know which one was right and figured that at least he’d be right half the time, I don’t know. The art in this one is a bit better than the art in Esoteric Hunters, as there are only giant boobs on a few pages. Still, not much to recommend this split book at all. Here’s hoping they work the bugs out, get an editor and come back with a better second issue. Contact info is up there, but if you don’t feel like scrolling go here.