I'll try doing comics again.
Gladstone's School For World Conquerors
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Since I have it and someone took the trouble to pimp it here.
As you probably guessed from the title, this is about a school for budding super villains. Here they learn such subject as battle strategy, victory speeches and dealing with minions. The man cast is a group of students who are the children of established but retired villains. Beyond being budding super villains, they are fairly standard teen characters with standard problems like getting in trouble with parents over poor grades and crushes. That's not all that is going on though. Things are not as they seem at the school. I won't say more to avoid spoiling the reveal.
This is a quirky little title. The artwork is reminiscent of the Teen Titans Go animated series. It suits the story pretty well. I guess that's not surprising since it already suits a series with a somewhat similar tone. The series can't seem to decide if it wants to be a school comedy or a serious drama and switches back and forth between the two. The characters are generally cute and likeable. Kid Nefarious (center top) is funny. Mummy Girl (I'm sure you can guess which one she is) is cute. As of the end of the first arc, there are signs that the tone might be getting darker and the story more serious. It's worth getting for people who enjoy school comedies or teen team titles like Teen Titans Go!.
As an aside, the author throws in a lecture about the literary potential of comics and the disdain of academia for them using Mummy Girl as a mouthpiece at one point. I have to wonder who he is addressing this to since the people who think that way are very unlikely to be reading this.
As you probably guessed from the title, this is about a school for budding super villains. Here they learn such subject as battle strategy, victory speeches and dealing with minions. The man cast is a group of students who are the children of established but retired villains. Beyond being budding super villains, they are fairly standard teen characters with standard problems like getting in trouble with parents over poor grades and crushes. That's not all that is going on though. Things are not as they seem at the school. I won't say more to avoid spoiling the reveal.
This is a quirky little title. The artwork is reminiscent of the Teen Titans Go animated series. It suits the story pretty well. I guess that's not surprising since it already suits a series with a somewhat similar tone. The series can't seem to decide if it wants to be a school comedy or a serious drama and switches back and forth between the two. The characters are generally cute and likeable. Kid Nefarious (center top) is funny. Mummy Girl (I'm sure you can guess which one she is) is cute. As of the end of the first arc, there are signs that the tone might be getting darker and the story more serious. It's worth getting for people who enjoy school comedies or teen team titles like Teen Titans Go!.
As an aside, the author throws in a lecture about the literary potential of comics and the disdain of academia for them using Mummy Girl as a mouthpiece at one point. I have to wonder who he is addressing this to since the people who think that way are very unlikely to be reading this.
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