The bestselling YA novels are now a graphic novel series! Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night.What secrets lie in our surroundings...? Something about the Springtrap costume in the roleplaying area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex chills Luca to the core... Caden senses the underwater animatronics in Freddy's Fantasy Water Park have a mind of their own... and a Fazbear Entertainment engineer's custom project has surprises in store for anyone who encounters it...In this volume, three stories from the Publishers Weekly bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy' Tales from the Pizzaplex come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fan...
Scott Cawthon is an American independent video game developer, animator, and writer, best known for his creation of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
Once again, we have another case of these graphic novel adaptations of the FNaF short stories not being good graphic novels. I've said as much in reviews for other installments, but even with different artists working on different stories (although in this volume, both the second and third stories are illustrated by the same author), it's clear that something must be going wrong in the planning/development stages of these books.
The usual weaknesses are present here: Text is lazily typed and placed onto props/signs instead of being drawn organically into scenes, some panels are depicting things that are different from what the text/narration is actually describing, and there are occasionally weird continuity errors between panels themselves. The third story even has an instance of mixing up which character should be speaking in a specific scene (misremembering which one of two characters had previously investigated a room). I couldn't go more than three pages without being frustrated by something in the art, and that's not a good sign for a graphic novel. And, of course, errors regarding detail and continuity feels so out-of-character for a franchise that trained its fans to go through anything and everything with a fine-toothed comb.
Oh, yeah. The stories themselves. The first feels frustrating and cruel, the second is compelling but with a few loose ends, and the third is OK, but its purpose really is more for setting up the Mimic part of the franchise. The second and third stories (as well as their art style looking good overall, if not for the text and depiction errors) save this rating from being just one star.
Pretty mid over all. I'd say the only story worth reading this for is the 3rd one with the Mimic. Having read the corresponding short stories, I'm not sure these really had the page counts to do them justice. The art in the last 2 stories is pretty good, the first is alright.
I thought it was a really put-together book. I really enjoyed the illustrations, and I love to see the characters come to life from just some words. It’s really neat. Good book overall, I’d recommend reading it.