“Pixies #1” By Sean Patrick O’Reilly & Shawn DePasquale Review

Part one! Joe Beck is an auto mechanic with the worst luck in the world, and since a young age, his accidents have introduced him to every hospital employee within a sixty-mile radius. In Annie Hall, Woody Allen divides everyone into the Horrible and the Miserable. Joe unfortunately falls into both categories. To get the girl of his dreams Joe must discover his affliction, ‘The Pixie Curse,’ and find out how to redeem a mistake he made many years ago.

I need to admit here that this comic book has a charming premise and flashes of playful mischief, but the execution of the plot in this comic book feels uneven.

This comic book struggles to land its tone which is caught between whimsical fantasy and broader slapstick and it is resulting in a start that’s more cute concept than compelling comic. In a way because of this problem this comic book fails to engage me or interested me personally long enough to give this comic book a good rating.

The core idea of this comic book has pretty impish, storybook appeal that could support quirky adventures. But in my opinion the only audience this comic book will appeal to are young children who are learning to read and we want to give them something fun enough for them to not lose interest in reading.

This comic book has a very straightforward plot line to it while also trying to make some jokes to appear as humors to add light and breezy mood to the whole comic book.

The characters in this comic book, has a feel to them that makes them more as archetypes with limited interiority than anything else that I want the characters to be so that I can give the comic book a good rating. Because of this its very hard for me personally to invest in the characters’s stakes or journeys throughout this comic book.

This comic book has also a pretty inconsistent tone to it. Because this comic book keeps jumping from winking fantasy to noise-and-chaos humor which made me feel like the creators of this comic book couldn’t make up their minds on which way to go with.

The same thing can be said about the very uneven pacing of this comic book. Because there are some scenes which seem like they are on a marathon of how fast they are, while other moments in this comic book are very very slow. In my opinion because of this the plot feels more like a string of bits than a fully developed plot line.

The artwork in this comic book is in my opinion the best part of this comic book. Because it is very clean and cute at times. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5

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