Reviewed by Jason Frazier
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Charmed was a television show that
aired from 1998 to 2006. The premise behind the show was that there
were three sisters who were destined to battle evil using their
witchcraft. They are the Charmed Ones. The show started out with
Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, and Shannen Doherty as Piper,
Phoebe, and Prue Halliwell. After three seasons, and some back stage
drama, Prue was killed off. Miraculously there turned out to be
another sister, Rose McGowan as Paige Matthews, who Piper and
Phoebe’s Mom had after her divorce from their father, with her
Whitelighter. A Whitelighter is a guardian angel for good witches and
future Whitelighters.
Just this month, the 10th
season of the show debuted in comic form and I was lucky enough to
get a preview of the 1st issue. For this review I looked
at a few things that I love when it comes to comic books and when it
comes to anything that involves a TV show or movie that I’m a fan
of. I going to look at the art of the book, the story and flow of the
story, and the overall feel or if I think this seems like something I
could see happening in the show.
So for some back story leading up to
the first issue, it seems that Prue is no longer dead and has
returned to life, or her spirit has, in the body of a comatose woman.
Prue also has been imbued with the magic of the Nexus of the All. If
you are wondering what that is there is a nice little paragraph that
gets you up to date on that at the beginning of the book.
The art of the book is decent, but not
the quality I would like to see. Comparing the artwork of the book to
others that are based on TV Shows I would say it is on par. On par
means that it distinguishable who is who and the locations that are
familiar to the fans are still familiar, but they are not what I
would expect the quality of say a Spider-Man, Superman, or Batman. If
you are expecting a beautifully drawn book that is not what you will
get, but it is acceptable.
The flow of the narrative is kind of
confusing. It seems to jump from three different points in the story.
There is a great beginning that reminds me how they sometimes started
some episodes, but even with where the story starts there seems to be
a lack of flow. I read the comic a few times and got lost in which
direction the story was going at certain points. There was one point
that the sisters were fighting a demon and you don’t even know what
happens. Also, I don’t like how it seems they are throwing every
character that has been big in the show into this one book. I’m
exaggerating, but the one they do put into the story makes no sense.
Why was this person even in here? I hate it when anything does this
just to do this. This takes away from the story I feel. Also, there
is a narrator going on that picks up half way in the comic that makes
no sense at first. They could have brought the narrator into the book
at the end and done a better job of introducing this person. I didn’t
even get that it was a narrator until the end. I hope this flow
improves as the book goes on.
I do feel like what I read is something
that was part of the show. The characters feel and act like I would
expect them to if I was watching another season of the show. The
writers of the book have the feel of the show down. I identified who
each person was more from how they talked than how they looked in the
book. I think this is one of the hardest things for a writer to do
when they were not involved with writing the show while it was on
air.
Overall I say that this is a decent
book that any fan of Charmed will enjoy. If you try to get into the
book just because you love comic books, this is not one of the ones
for that. If you pick this up because you are a fan of Charmed and
want to continue the adventures of the Halliwell sisters than do so,
but don’t forget to pick up season nine also.
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