New Courtney Crumrin series

[skjam]

Courtney Crumrin is a young witch learning her craft under the eye of her Uncle Aloysius, while also attending an ordinary elementary school.



She's the one on the left.



Holly Hart is the daughter of a newly successful thriller writer who moves in next door to the Crumrins. She's fashionably gothy, but this doesn't fly in Hillsborough.



Despite this unpromising beginning, Holly turns out to be one of the few civilians Courtney's met who is okay with magic and they hit it off. Soon, Holly's more than okay with the idea of magic, and wants to learn some herself. Courtney is happy about this, but Holly's choice of first spell is the "make myself popular" one that gave Courtney trouble before.

Meanwhile, Uncle Aloysius is facing his own impending mortality, and deciding against using extreme magical methods to prevent death.





The homework thing is a callback to a story where Courtney learned that lesson the hard way.

And then on a visit to Goblin Town, everything goes south....



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Comments

[northstarfan]

I was actually a little disappointed in the new Polly (not enough that I regret buying it, though). The art really felt insubstantial.

[the_engineer]

I actually do kind of regret buying it. The art is *terrible*. There's more than enough times that I couldn't figure out what was supposed to be happening.

[northstarfan]

The story flow was spotty in places, but for me, the sticking point was how light all the linework was. It looked faded out in spots, it was so fine, and there seemed to be very little variation in weight. It looked about as far from Naifeh's style as one could get. I think it would have worked better in a larger book, but in digest format, it was sometimes hard to simply make out details.

[bjornwilde]

I was afraid of this as I love Naifeh and his art. Having someone else draw for him made me nervous.

[northstarfan]

It doesn't help that the new fellow's style is nothing like Naifeh's at all. It's quite jarring.

I thought it was a pleasant little story, and I don't regret picking it up, but it really doesn't hold a candle to the previous volume or to the Courtney books.

[kamino_neko]

Waaaaaaaaaait, wait, new Polly? New Polly? When did this come out? new Courtney and new Polly?