Pretty Deadly - A commentary

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.       When I first started reading it, it took me by surprise. The concept of a butterfly and a bunny seemed so innocent up until the point the comic introduces itself as a gore genre. As I read while it keeps the basics of what a comic is they add a really nice dialogue in the beginning of the next volume. It would basically be filling the readers in on what the last volume was about, but written in a way as if someone was reading us a story.

2.     From volume 4 I felt a great feeling of content. There was no immaturity or “wrong” in Ginny’s or Foxy’s actions, but Ginny, a woman felt so empowering of the situation. She was angry, but kept her cool while fighting Foxy, which turned up for the best in the long run. The transition of the story is very smooth, so seeing that kind of character development (As in her accepting compromise) is very satisfying. I genuinely have nothing bad to say about this comic because even the element of surprise is rather unpredictable and dramatic (in a good way of course). I also noticed there aren’t many sound effects, which really sways away from the traditional method of comic making. I think it works because from the panel’s execution is so on point the readers can most likely tell what’s going on, including in the action scenes.

3.      Honestly, if this was animated/executed in the way Netflix produced the Castlevania animation… this would be a masterpiece of a series. Cool thing about modern comics and adapting them into anime/animation is that there’s probably not much needed to change. Composition, dialogue, and even the narrative can all be translated into animation. One particular thing I think would go really well is the beginning dialogue because that’s just an obvious way of starting off an episode…. Man do I want an animated series of this.