Re: The Puberty Fairies (AR/AP comic)
Here is the review... (7.5/10) I like Dreamtales comics, both GTS or AR/AP, the artwork is impeccable and the grammar is perfect but as usual the premise lacks in originality and the treatment needs to be more creative. The new comics are longer than the old ones and that's a big plus but it seems to me that it is still just more of the same sister-rivalry thing as every other Betsy and Lauren story. With a few more characters being affected than just Lauren and Betsy.
I understand that the sister rivalry is a popular theme but you already have a website full of it. This time its faeries, the other time its hormones... "Regressing to the mean" was the smartest of all those stories so far because it introduced new elements.
My suggestion to Dreamtales, bring in some more new elements to create some action, like the sisters cooperating to bring down a street gang. Thus the need for one of them to AR into teenager to infiltrate. Instead of only the usual "oh no, you're smaller/taller"... Think of what sort of trouble teenagers get into and make a story about that while shrinking and growing them as you see fit to make the story crazier.
Or you could go the way of so many porn producers and parody a movie, maybe "World AR Z" where the world is under-siege with millions of people shrunken into pre-teens swarming the last bastions of grown up humanity...
There are thousands of worst ways to spend 12$ out there so you might as well get the comic but it won't change your life. I wouldn't expect anything to change my life for 12$ anyway. I keep buying them because most of them are good and once in a while there comes a great one.
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