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I have a confession: I love reading about villains! Particularly what made them take that initial turn for the worse. This GN adaptation of Evil Thing by Serena Valentino really is fantastic. I can still remember how horrible I thought Cruella De Vil was when I first saw 101 Dalmatians as a little boy; she really scared me! This is a great backstory to this iconic charater! Art by Arielle Jovellanos is wonderful!
A dreary and dull origin story for Cruella drags on and on in this graphic novel adaptation of a novel I have not read. Is she a victim of her cold and withholding mother's psychological manipulation, cursed, having a mental health crisis, or struggling with internalized homophobia due to a queerbaiting relationship that is teased? If the author had picked a direction and went with it, I might have been interested, but there is just endless yammering as everything stays firmly in the land of mud...
Cruella De Vil’s descent into dog-fur obsession starts with a loving father and an emotionally and physically withdrawn mother. Lord De Vil loves his daughter and shows it with humor, smiles, attention, stories and affection. Lady De Vil, however, is a different kettle of fish. Exalting money, status and possession above all things, she has little time for an emotionally needy daughter or her husband.Thus the stage is set. At a very young age, Cruella has absorbed her mother’s maxims about who m...
Cruella DeVil's story in graphic novel form. Many sad and strange things for one person to go through and the results are Cruella DeVil. She was loved by some but the circumstances weren't right for it to have a more lasting affect on her outcome.
Beautifully illustrated! Story was a bit dull and a felt a bit ”hurried” but I loved it still. Cruella is my forever fave.
I really enjoyed this graphic novel adaptation of the Villains novel Evil Thing by Serena Valentino. So many students love that series and Disney origin stories are such a hit with readers. I loved the red/black/white color scheme throughout the whole book. It was a bit text-heavy on certain pages that could intimidate some MG readers, but overall I loved it. 4 stars
I have had Serena Valentino's Villains series on my To Read list for a long time. This graphic novel version of Evil Thing is the first one I have been able to read. I LOVED this story and cannot wait to read all the Villains novels. The illustrations are fabulous and I loved the story.
I was willing to go with that Cruella had a bad relationship with her mother, but it doesn't work for connecting her backstory to wanting to turn puppies into a coat. I don't buy it. The story makes the mistake of saying she loves puppies and then never shows why she hates dogs or a believable reason to be so fur obsessed. The book is fine until the puppy shows up, but it is another unbelievable villain back story.Also, Cruella loses everything she has in the book. Then we never find out how she...
The ARC of this graphic novel was an absolute delight to read! It was great to see this series come alive and with illustrations to really blend in the story we know with the story behind the scenes. I also thought it worked well by itself if you haven’t read the others in the series. You won’t catch some Easter eggs but it was still just a great backstory.
It’s heartbreaking to know the life cruella lived prior to the whole “I want to kill 101 Dalmatians”. It makes me feel more mad than anything, all she needed was one permanent positive change in her life and she would’ve been a completely different person. This graphic novel is good for anyone who loves cruella and would like to know where it all started or people who absolutely hate her, this novel can clear up some questions.
Was it me... or was that... kinda gay? Like as gay as Disney will ever let any of its Classic Villains be, but, uhhhh, yeah that was kinda gay.I liked that, unlike the recent movie, this never attempted to soften the bad things she did. I gave some context and told you her reasoning, but at no point did they change the whole stole-puppies-in-order-to-kill-them-and-make-a-coat. She is clearly A Bad Guy, even in her own story, and they don't try and "fix" her. She is mentally disturbed and needs s...
Solid 3.75. I thought this was going to be an alternate history to the classic villain like Once Upon a Time's take (which I LOVED), but it was really an expanded history of the classic Disney Villain from the 101 Dalmations movie. Cruella has always been a favorite villain of mine because of her pure evilness and sassy streak (a la Once Upon a Time and of course Glenn Close's Cruella) but I still enjoyed this history of Cruella and seeing evil being made, not born. I also enjoyed how this was t...
Author Serena Valentino has taken the world by storm with her New York Times best-selling Disney Villains novels and it appears that the traditional novel format is just the beginning for these Villainous tales.Valentino’s novels explore the backstories for Disney villains that readers know and love as well as introduce readers to new characters that operate behind the scenes of classic Disney plots. The novels seem to keep on coming with eight books having been released to date. The most recent...
Loved this! Especially since the drawing really matched my imagination (I read the novel first). Hope they’ll release graphic novels for the rest of the books as well!
An interesting tale of Cruella's side of the story. Faced with a terrible mother, Cruella tells her side of things and how she is the way she is.
Loved it.
3.5⭐ Rounded up.Lady Valentino has created this fabulous series showing the hearts (and sometime lack there of) in our most precious Disney villains.This time I tried out the graphic novel version of her latest installment.She still ties this into the series with some Tulip references, but this one has more sweet moments with a character, that really has no soft side in the movie.I love the back stories she creates in this dimension and this one was no exception.If you have not read anything in
I love the fact this book became a graphic novel but it felt very rushed to me
I quite enjoyed this graphic novel. It tells the origin story of Cruella De Vil, but not like the movie at all. It fits in more with the original animated movie. The best way to describe it is a prequel to the 101 Dalmation movie with some overlap. It describes how Cruella became crazy and why she came up with the idea to steal the puppies. The only content to cause concern is how she wants to murder puppies for their fur. Also, there is death and Cruella becoming mentally ill. That being said,...
Serena Valentino has once again crafted an amazing novel, telling the story of Cruella De Vil. The graphics were detailed, vibrant, and beautiful to look at. I hope they make all of the Villian series into graphic novels!