2020년 6월부터 2022년 2월까지, 리디에서 많은 독자분들의 사랑 속에 연재된 웹툰《살인마 르웰린 씨의 낭만적인 정찬》이 완결 후 종이책으로 출간되었다. 총 6권 완결이며, 묵부 작가님의 섬세한 작화와 영리터 작가님의 흥미진진한 연출이 종이책 페이지 안에 새롭게 재구성되어, 독자분들께 웹툰과는 또 다른 신선함과 즐거움을 선사할 것이다.
빈민가 이라 스트리트를 떠들썩하게 만든 연쇄살인 사건과 셰본의 집 앞에 쪽지를 붙이는 스토커 그리고 매일 계단에서 양파를 까는 수려한 외모의 미청년 등 반전에 반전을 거듭하는 미스터리한 사건들로 가득한─ 오싹하지만 그 이면에 애절하고 아름다운 진실이 담긴《살인마 르웰린 씨의 낭만적인 정찬》을 종이책으로 다시 한번 만나 보자.
Oh wow, der Band war wirklich richtig spannend. Wir bekommen mehr Hintergrundgeschichte zu Lewellyn, wieso er so vernarrt ist in Shavonne und warum er so ist, wie er ist - und es ist richtig gut gelöst. Es ist grausam und düster und unangenehm, aber Junge, das war richtig richtig gut - ich hätte diesen Plottwist wirklich GAR nicht erwartet. Weder das Lewellyn diese Hintergrundgeschichte hat, noch .... andere DInge, die jetzt schon ein spoiler wären :D
The third season was brutal. You're rooting for Llewellyn and Shavonne, but I still felt bad for the villains (probably a personal failing). The last 4 chapters weren't as satisfying as I hoped. It felt like things weren't explained that well. Where does all of Llewellyn's money come from? How did Shavonne survive being shot? How did Farrell survive being shot so much?
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This was my favorite volume yet. We got to see so much emotion from Lewellyn, as well as a backstory that explain how they originally met, which Shavonne has no memory of. It is incredibly heartbreaking and beautiful and I understand why he loves him so much.
Now I feel like I have an idea of where the story is going, but I could be completely wrong.
I love it when author's absolutely crush your heart with nothing but angst / hurt and a tiny sprinkle of comfort, just to give you a panel with all the hope you slowly lost throughout the chapters. Art at its finest.
This is for Yen Press/Ize Press' English translation of the graphic novel, since for some reason, that's not included in the editions for this. Specifically it is for that one because there are more typos in this volume than in previous volumes. Considering this is truly not a text heavy graphic novel, the number of typos
We've hit heavy backstory territory now, so I'm intrigued but also confused.
In the present, Lewellyn is trying to figure out what's going on with Shavonne's suddenly bright career - unwilling to do anything to ruin his happiness but also suspicious of people's motivations. And Shavonne is meeting a new editor who seems amazing and truly interested in his work, but whom Shavonne is afraid of bringing too close to Lewellyn.
Their relationship has such an interesting dynamic that gets...explained better? But also romantically kind of way worse...? with the whole backstory.
I don't know. I very definitely have to see the full story to see how I feel about it all.
Some years in the past, Lewellyn had been in a notorious prison where most of the captives simply die before ever having a chance to be let out. There's no information about how he wound up there, but considering he truly thinks of himself as a dog rather than a human, and can barely form human speech, it almost seems like he was born in that cell? For some reason, the guards spend all their time beating him - "training" him, they call it, but don't ever outright kill him.
I really don't understand how this prison works at all, but Lewellyn doesn't either, and all of the prison scenes are from his point of view. Shavonne is the first prison guard to ever treat him like an actual human being, or with any sort of kindness at all. Somehow he's given free rein with Lewellyn and ends up teaching him how to read and write, and actually gives him his name. He's also responsible for Lewellyn's onion-eating habits: because it was a cheap way for a broke prison guard to try to heal up Lewellyn's wounds and illnesses.
This all makes for an incredibly fascinating story with an absolutely wildly imbalanced romantic attachment. Lewellyn is obsessed with Shavonne - which we already know in the present - but it's all tied to him essentially imprinting on the prison guard who showed him kindness.
I have so many questions about what happened to Shavonne's memory, how he went from poor prison guard to destitute writer (although he'd dreamed of writing back then too), and how Lewellyn got out of prison and wound up being extremely wealthy.
I feel like a whole lot of things will make a ton more sense once all the mysteries are revealed, so I'm definitely interested in finding out everything. But right now it's kind of...sad, I guess. I feel sad for both of them. Happy that they're finding happiness together now, but when Lewellyn's so stunted and Shavonne is missing half of his life - and seems to have been cruel to Lewellyn when they parted ways in prison - it's kind of hard to see how they could reach a true happy ending.
Still a very intriguing story, though, just from the narrative standpoint.
Although not as strong as the last volume this was fantastic. This series is really great and although I still have so many questions my biggest being why is Lewellyn even locked up like that in the first place? The scenes of Lewellyn and Shavonne were very nice, showing that Shavonne was the only one willing to treat Lewellyn with respect. I get now why Lewellyn is so attached and what the deal with the onions is. I very much am looking forward to the next volume. I need to know so many things. It will definitely be on my mind which is a sign that a series/volume is a favorite of mine.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.