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SeiUsa · Post by **SeiUsa** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:39 pm

Has anyone read this yet? In case you don't know, it's a three part manga sequel to the Jim Henson movie "Labyrinth." I heard mixed reviews about it, but I'm hoping to check it out anyway.

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:39 pm

SeiUsa wrote:Has anyone read this yet? In case you don't know, it's a three part manga sequel to the Jim Henson movie "Labyrinth." I heard mixed reviews about it, but I'm hoping to check it out anyway.

I've skimmed the first book, but I didn't get a chance to really READ it.. The art is very nice, in my opinion, and Derek got a chance to read it (the book belongs to his sister) and he didn't like it. But..he's pretty hard to please when it comes to books and movies and such ^^;

Butterscotch · Post by **Butterscotch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:56 pm

I haven't heard of this. I think I'd like to check it out.
Is it available in English? ^^;

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:11 pm

Butterscotch wrote:I haven't heard of this. I think I'd like to check it out.
Is it available in English? ^^;

Yes, Derek's sister bought hers at a Barnes and Noble. It's in with the regular manga.

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:13 pm

I saw it on Amazon and read some reviews here and there. Most people are pretty disappointed in it. From what I've heard, Jareth is in love with Toby (who's pretty much a male Mary-Sue) or something (as opposed to, oh, I don't know....SARAH!) and Sarah's character is changed dramatically to some school teacher who's cold and doesn't believe in dreams or something. Again, that's just information I've read from various places, but it doesn't exactly make me want to go and buy it.

Post by **Tiff** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:42 pm

peachvampiress wrote:I saw it on Amazon and read some reviews here and there. Most people are pretty disappointed in it. From what I've heard, Jareth is in love with Toby (who's pretty much a male Mary-Sue) or something (as opposed to, oh, I don't know....SARAH!) and Sarah's character is changed dramatically to some school teacher who's cold and doesn't believe in dreams or something. Again, that's just information I've read from various places, but it doesn't exactly make me want to go and buy it.

It's not so much he's in love with him...he just has a strange sort of obsession with him. At least, that's what I gathered from it.

But yes, Toby is very much a gary stu.

Kameko · Post by **Kameko** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:45 am

peachvampiress wrote:Sarah's character is changed dramatically to some school teacher who's cold and doesn't believe in dreams or something.

And this completely contradicts the end of the movie. When I saw the cover art I thought of buying it just to look at the pretty pictures (I'm not suffering through 100 pages of a Gary Stu character)... until I saw that the cover artist wasn't who drew the manga. This is what annoys me the most as I find this as nothing short of false advertisement. From what I read about the manga, the cover art is the only redeeming thing about it.

DreamEmpress · Post by **DreamEmpress** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:49 am

It's been a few months since I actually read this manga. I don't want to say it's bad, because some of the story actually had some interesting points to it and I'm kind of wanting to check out the next volume just to see if it develops well. On the other hand, so much of the characters seem to have changed since the movie that it really just doesn't sit as well with me. It's like that familiar feeling from the film just isn't quite there. But I'm not going to pass complete judgement until I've read further into it.

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 1:10 pm

Tiff

It's not so much he's in love with him...he just has a strange sort of obsession with him. At least, that's what I gathered from it.

But you and I both know that in the minds of insane fangirls who write crappy fanfics that obviously means HOT YAOI SLASH MUST WRITE FIC OOC INSERT MARY SUE SELF ON A SUGAR HIGH WHEN WROTE IT ^______________________________^

Post by **Tiff** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:20 pm

peachvampiress wrote:Tiff
It's not so much he's in love with him...he just has a strange sort of obsession with him. At least, that's what I gathered from it.
But you and I both know that in the minds of insane fangirls who write crappy fanfics that obviously means HOT YAOI SLASH MUST WRITE FIC OOC INSERT MARY SUE SELF ON A SUGAR HIGH WHEN WROTE IT ^______________________________^

Oh, for sure.

LIKE ZOMGZ JARETH AND TOBY ARE SO HAWWWWWWWWWT

-_- kill it with fire.

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