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A review by magnetgrrl
Artemis Fowl Der Comic by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin
2.0
I found this on my shelves during my great comic reorganization, and hadn't read it so blew through it pretty quickly this morning. I was surprised because I thought Artemis Fowl was a different sort of character, or that this book was about something else! I was not expecting him to be a villain, or for there to be supernatural and fantasy elements in his world. I thought it was like, a super genius and the setting was more like Spy Kids.
Given this new information, however, I have to say, Artemis Fowl kinda sucks. He's a smug little a*hole of a child who is treated like an adult because he's "so smart", he only cares about himself, and money and is really rude to his mom who has mental health issues, and he basically kidnaps and tortures a being of another world in hopes to get rich. I was NOT rooting for him in the book, so it extra sucked that he kinda got everything he wanted, outsmarted everyone, and got away with it? Like, super unsatisfying ending, dude. He learns no lessons and has zero consequences for being a jerk. Not what I would want my kid to read, honestly, from a children's or YA novel.
I know this was a novel first, and then a movie, and then this short comic is like the movie tie=in, so I'm not certain if the books have more going on for him or a different plot, but I don't think I'll bother checking it out. Also, I'm probably going to donate this to a little free library somewhere, if I don't feel too guilty about leaving basically propaganda for being a selfish prick where anyone can grab it. :/
Given this new information, however, I have to say, Artemis Fowl kinda sucks. He's a smug little a*hole of a child who is treated like an adult because he's "so smart", he only cares about himself, and money and is really rude to his mom who has mental health issues, and he basically kidnaps and tortures a being of another world in hopes to get rich. I was NOT rooting for him in the book, so it extra sucked that he kinda got everything he wanted, outsmarted everyone, and got away with it? Like, super unsatisfying ending, dude. He learns no lessons and has zero consequences for being a jerk. Not what I would want my kid to read, honestly, from a children's or YA novel.
I know this was a novel first, and then a movie, and then this short comic is like the movie tie=in, so I'm not certain if the books have more going on for him or a different plot, but I don't think I'll bother checking it out. Also, I'm probably going to donate this to a little free library somewhere, if I don't feel too guilty about leaving basically propaganda for being a selfish prick where anyone can grab it. :/