The French cover of Angry Birds Stella Issue 2

Description:

Retrouvez Stella et ses amies dans ce nouvel album de la série dérivée d'Angry Birds. La vie sur Golden Island bat toujours son plein et, tandis que Gale cherche inlassablement l'oeuf d'or, ses ex-amies inventent toutes sortes de jeux pour pimenter le quotidien : journée à l'envers ou défi de la meilleure blagueuse sont au programme. Un programme auquel la « Méchante Princesse » souscrirait peut-être plus volontiers qu'il n'y paraît...

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Personal Review:

The second and last volume of an Angry Birds Stella comic series that never made it outside Europe. This time, it's only available in French. Tragic.

I don't speak French, and never will, so once again I can provide no feedback story-wise.

As for the art, it uses the same 4 artstyles as before, but I do have new things to say:

First of all, the cover kicks major ass this time around!

Unfortunately, the contents of this book aren't as badass. I'd even say that it's not as good as the first book, but at the same time I literally don't know 70% of what happens in both thanks to the language barrier. Who knows, maybe if I learn French, then I'd find out that this is secretly Peak Fiction or whatever.

The "Coach Stella" style, now used in "Un Chouchou Par Personne" and "Preum's", still stays strong as ever! It's even got two stories this time! (although the second one only has 2 pages, but still)
One unfortunate thing is that we don't get to see Gale in this artstyle, and likely never will.

Like last time, the "mimic" artstyle starts off weaker in its first appearance (La Journee A L'envers), and improves in its second appearance (Le Defi De Poppy). It didn't trace anything like last time, thankfully.

There's no big mistake for me to point out, and no small mistakes I'm smart enough to point out either, but I swear they're different in quality. I'm not crazy, right?
See the comic for yourself and tell me the answer.

I kinda suspect that there are actually two different artists working with this artstyle, explaining the difference in quality it also suffered from in the previous volume.

However, it couldn't keep its second place title, as that now belongs to its previous roommate: the lineless style now used in "Une Mysterieus Machine", and "Joyeux Lucanniversaire". Again, not smart enough to tell what it did differently than last time, but now it's finally beaten the "mimic" style for good!

That artstyle I put in last place previously seems to have gotten better in terms of expressions. It's got a decent fighting chance now!

Still unsure whether or not this beats the "mimic" style. I'm inclined to say it does, as it feels more interesting for the comic to not have the same artstyle as basically every other piece of Angry Birds Stella stuff. Maybe it would be a definite yes if the comic got more entries and the artstyle gets a chance to beat its horrible first impressions, but alas.

It does kinda shoot itself in the foot in the end with some mistakes.

Also Willow's bald this time, for whatever reason.

Anyways, that's about it. Here's Stella commiting acts of terrorism. See ya.

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