This volume contains two stories. The first, "Meet the Cave Club," is the founding of the first club and the invention of friendship, and the second shows what happens on the first birthday.
The stories are cute and pretty well-written. The art is done by several people, some slightly better than others.
You've actually seen the art if you've watched the videos. They tend to take the art from the comics and turn it into slightly moving images to fit the stories in the videos.
We meet Emberly first. She's the main character of both stories, though others play very prominent roles.
We learn that she invented fire, amongst other things. She's a risk-taker and therefore, a bit bold and reckless.
The second character introduced is actually one that doesn't have a doll yet. This is Ruly. She's described as "more polished" and she likes the "finer things in life." She's also credited with inventing the world's first fashion statement.
Ruly is only in the first story and doesn't really display much by way of personality, but my guess is that they're setting her up to be a Rarity type.
Her hair is a blend of pale yellow and that melon color you see in the art there.
Then we get to the other characters.
Tella is an oracle, who's very easily distracted.
Roaralai was raised by sabretooth tigers, so she's the wild, uncultured one.
Fernessa is the plant and animal lover, who invented agriculture. "Eventually, Fernessa will try and make her family the world's first vegans...it will not go well." Heh.
Then there's Slate, Tella's twin. He also has visions, but he turns his into paintings.
The second story is called "An EGG-cellent Adventure" and it's about Emberly insisting upon celebrating Fernessa's birthday. Emberly brings Fernessa a series of failed gifts, a sequence which hey used in the fourth webisode.
The actual adventure starts when Tella has a vision of a cake, so she, Emberly and Roaralai go in search of the giant egg from the vision, leaving Slate to distract Fernessa.
There are subtle hints at something between Slate and Fernessa. Perhaps more on his part than hers. She seems annoyed they left him with her.
So Tella, Emberly and Roaralai cross a river, which they used in the third webisode. Then they get caught by a giant man-eating plant, which Emberly's dad has warned her about since she was little. So who has to save them?
Fernessa is really awesome in this story. She's smart and brave, which actually made me like her a lot. She might be my second fave after Roaralai. I hardly ever like the nature character, so it's a little surprise, but perhaps not, because when I left off watching Winx, it was Flora who had become my favorite fairy.
The four girls continue on their adventure, end up in the cave with the giant egg, but hey, it's actually a dinosaur egg and the dino family isn't happy. But then the cave starts to collapse, so Emberly takes the egg and runs with it to make the dinos follow her and the other girls outside to safety. The egg hatches, the baby dino is safe and the dinos go off on their own. Emberly is disappointed there will be no cake, but Fernessa says this was the best birthday ever.
At the end of the story, it flashes to present day, where a tour guide is telling the tale. These are the kids in the crowd, so it's a cute vision of a modern day Cave Club.
I really enjoyed these stories. They're way better than the webisodes, I think. I just hope we see more of Ruly, so we can get to know her, as well as focus on characters other than Emberly as the catalyst.
No comments:
Post a Comment