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Luuna #1-2
Luuna Volume 1
"On the night of her coming of age ritual, Luuna, a young girl from the mystic Paumanok tribe enters the sacred wood. There she will face Hohopah, the Heart of the Forest and be assigned her totem, the animal incarnation of her inner-self. But unbeknownst to Luuna, this night belongs to Unkui, the Evil One, who demands that her soul be shared! Now Luuna is cursed with not one, but two totems. One white--the reflection of all that is good in her. The other, black--representing the darkness that resides in us all, and capable of terrible destruction. Unable to return to her tribe, Luuna embarks on a quest to seek out the wise spirits of the earth and with their help, rid herself of the cursed totem. But little does she know that Unkui is not finished with her yet, and has set his fiendish minions on her trail"--P. [4] of cover.
112 pages, Paperback
Published March 10, 2009
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Crisse
134 books18 followersCrisse is the pen name of Didier Chrispeels, a Belgian comic book author who is well known in the world of Franco-Belgian comics.
Born in Brussels, he began drawing on canvas in Lyon at age eighteen. His career in comics started with Ocean's King for Spirou Magazine in 1979 and an issue of Tintin in 1980. He moved to France and published several successful series, including Kookaburra, Atalanta, and Luuna.
Born in Brussels, he began drawing on canvas in Lyon at age eighteen. His career in comics started with Ocean's King for Spirou Magazine in 1979 and an issue of Tintin in 1980. He moved to France and published several successful series, including Kookaburra, Atalanta, and Luuna.
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December 31, 2024
Crap but works for the reading challenge.
August 21, 2011
Luuna review
Art: Naked people..oh you wanted the style right. The artwork is ok highly exaggerated cartoonish but the ways the animals and wolves look is fluid and cool while the humans look almost disney like or extremely cartoony B-
Characters: Luuna and her totem animals and three forest spirit friends. Luuna is the character that moves the story along there really isn't much too her personality wise she is like Pocahontas mixed with brother bear characters you don't get a feel for who she is and this works towards disconnecting the reader from her. Her totem animals are cool twin wolves one black with white around his eye and one white with black around his eye the ying and yang of luuna while the white one doesn't talk that much and you really don't get a feel for their personality's either they are still really fun to look at. Lastly her three forest spirit friends....should jump off a cliff they are annoying and don't add anything to the story at all they could be written out and nothing would change they are there as the sidekick animals and really are annoying pains C+
Story: Wonderful idea horrible execution of said idea. The idea here is similar to Disney's “Brother bear” where luuna goes to get her totem animal. Simple straight forward and could be used for anything instead we get a slightly confusing plot. The first 50 pages of the comic are about her getting her totem animals and then being cursed pretty much the devil and God both want her soul and decide to share her she then needs to fix this (or so she thinks) and goes and looks for the great elk to give her wisdom to fix this confused? Yeah you will be we are given no background story as to why unkui (their version of the devil) is out that night, or why he wants her or even who he is! He also has a cult fallowing type tribe which isn't given much of a backstory as to why they became a cult in the first place. We are also given no background story as to why they need totem animals in the first place or why she can't have two or why hohopah (the heart of the forest kind of like God and grandmother willow in this story) didn't protect her better or even why her tribe (since this seems to be WELL KNOWN about this demon thing) sent her out on that night to get her totem so the first 50 pages are that. The next half of the story (24 pages) are her on her journey and like all journey stories there is a detour with an old man. This half of the story is worse then the first 50 pages everything is why? And the end is a major WHAT? And what just happened? While the action was good and the wolves and concept cool the lack of proper flow, plot, well done art, killed the story. It's interesting but doesn't keep you interested enough and is easy to put down and forget about. Also the nudity in this is off the scale and unnecessary we also never understand why in some cases while nothing is shown and two cases (her bathing and an after the full moon shift) are understandable flashback upon flashback of the old man while he was young naked does not make for a fun reading expiration D
Cover: Luuna on a rock face with a staff during an eclipse, shifted with both her wolves next to her. While this is a nice picture there is a lot of why's and misdoings. Why is she naked for this? She never has a staff like that, her shift's take place during a full moon not and eclipse just to name a few this is however striking and eye catching and will intrigue readers to pick it up B-
Rating: YA? (it didn't have a rating on the back if I had to guess I'd say OT for older teens)
Company: Tokyopop (out of business)
My rating : 3 of 5. I'm so disappointed with this book! It seemed like a good idea but wasn't easy to get into also the nudity totally turned me off as well as the confusing aspects mentioned above also it was to easy to put down in one day I put it down over 5 times at least the idea had so much to offer but was ruined with fan service and fan disservice and a confusing storyline that didn't give enough background information or clue us in as to what was going on!
Art: Naked people..oh you wanted the style right. The artwork is ok highly exaggerated cartoonish but the ways the animals and wolves look is fluid and cool while the humans look almost disney like or extremely cartoony B-
Characters: Luuna and her totem animals and three forest spirit friends. Luuna is the character that moves the story along there really isn't much too her personality wise she is like Pocahontas mixed with brother bear characters you don't get a feel for who she is and this works towards disconnecting the reader from her. Her totem animals are cool twin wolves one black with white around his eye and one white with black around his eye the ying and yang of luuna while the white one doesn't talk that much and you really don't get a feel for their personality's either they are still really fun to look at. Lastly her three forest spirit friends....should jump off a cliff they are annoying and don't add anything to the story at all they could be written out and nothing would change they are there as the sidekick animals and really are annoying pains C+
Story: Wonderful idea horrible execution of said idea. The idea here is similar to Disney's “Brother bear” where luuna goes to get her totem animal. Simple straight forward and could be used for anything instead we get a slightly confusing plot. The first 50 pages of the comic are about her getting her totem animals and then being cursed pretty much the devil and God both want her soul and decide to share her she then needs to fix this (or so she thinks) and goes and looks for the great elk to give her wisdom to fix this confused? Yeah you will be we are given no background story as to why unkui (their version of the devil) is out that night, or why he wants her or even who he is! He also has a cult fallowing type tribe which isn't given much of a backstory as to why they became a cult in the first place. We are also given no background story as to why they need totem animals in the first place or why she can't have two or why hohopah (the heart of the forest kind of like God and grandmother willow in this story) didn't protect her better or even why her tribe (since this seems to be WELL KNOWN about this demon thing) sent her out on that night to get her totem so the first 50 pages are that. The next half of the story (24 pages) are her on her journey and like all journey stories there is a detour with an old man. This half of the story is worse then the first 50 pages everything is why? And the end is a major WHAT? And what just happened? While the action was good and the wolves and concept cool the lack of proper flow, plot, well done art, killed the story. It's interesting but doesn't keep you interested enough and is easy to put down and forget about. Also the nudity in this is off the scale and unnecessary we also never understand why in some cases while nothing is shown and two cases (her bathing and an after the full moon shift) are understandable flashback upon flashback of the old man while he was young naked does not make for a fun reading expiration D
Cover: Luuna on a rock face with a staff during an eclipse, shifted with both her wolves next to her. While this is a nice picture there is a lot of why's and misdoings. Why is she naked for this? She never has a staff like that, her shift's take place during a full moon not and eclipse just to name a few this is however striking and eye catching and will intrigue readers to pick it up B-
Rating: YA? (it didn't have a rating on the back if I had to guess I'd say OT for older teens)
Company: Tokyopop (out of business)
My rating : 3 of 5. I'm so disappointed with this book! It seemed like a good idea but wasn't easy to get into also the nudity totally turned me off as well as the confusing aspects mentioned above also it was to easy to put down in one day I put it down over 5 times at least the idea had so much to offer but was ruined with fan service and fan disservice and a confusing storyline that didn't give enough background information or clue us in as to what was going on!
January 12, 2019
Luuna, jeune squaw, participe par une nuit de pleine lune à son initiation, au terme de laquelle lui sera révéler son totem. Mais les événements vont se dérouler sous le signe d'Unkui, un dieu maléfique.
Cette aventure des grandes plaines est assez bien menée, avec comme toujours les acolytes comiques (des esprits des bois farceurs), les conseillers : l'élan Papaki, le vieux hibou grognon et le grand esprit cerf de la forêt.
La figure du totem double n'est pas sans rappeler le duo démon/diablotin sur les épaules de certains personnages de dessins animés (le côté comique en moins). Le rendu graphique est très réussi et bien ancré dans les légendes indiennes, jusqu'au format des bulles narratives. Les couleurs bien marquées rendent parfaitement l'humeur du personnage principal. Et cette quête initiatique teintée d'imprévu et de sombres augures promet une bataille intérieure aussi bien qu'extérieure. Une série qui donne envie de continuer et de suivre Luuna et ses compagnons.
Cette aventure des grandes plaines est assez bien menée, avec comme toujours les acolytes comiques (des esprits des bois farceurs), les conseillers : l'élan Papaki, le vieux hibou grognon et le grand esprit cerf de la forêt.
La figure du totem double n'est pas sans rappeler le duo démon/diablotin sur les épaules de certains personnages de dessins animés (le côté comique en moins). Le rendu graphique est très réussi et bien ancré dans les légendes indiennes, jusqu'au format des bulles narratives. Les couleurs bien marquées rendent parfaitement l'humeur du personnage principal. Et cette quête initiatique teintée d'imprévu et de sombres augures promet une bataille intérieure aussi bien qu'extérieure. Une série qui donne envie de continuer et de suivre Luuna et ses compagnons.
January 12, 2020
Cette BD est un classique de mon enfance. J'étais donc ravie de l'avoir relu pour redécouvrir cette histoire incroyable ! Les dessins sont beaux, c'est un vrai plaisir de suivre les aventures de Luuna et ses totems !
August 6, 2019
Crap -as I expected- but couldn't turn down a translated book for under $2.
August 23, 2021
Le tome 1 est sympa mais j'attends de voir la suite pour me faire une vrai idée de l'histoire. On ne commence a comprendre qu'à la fin de ce tome et le début est long.
Les graphismes sont top.
Les graphismes sont top.
May 25, 2023
Un début sympathique, j'attends de voir comment cela sera développé et j'espère qu'on en apprendra plus sur cette histoire de totems et les croyances du peuple de Luuna.
August 13, 2024
3 1/4 stars
March 15, 2017
Dang. I wanted this to be awesome. It seems like a cross between Pocahontas and Princess Mononoke. Just look at that cover art! Naked wolf-girl ready to whup some *$^#!
Unfortunately, the actual product is disjointed, hard to follow, and frankly boring.
The duality of the dark wolf=evil, white wolf=good is overly simplistic: there are so many more interesting ways that device could have been used. The black wolf could represent violence, passion, connection to the earth, the primal urge to survive; the white could be mercy, or logic, or civilization and the world of Man. Having them be introduced from the outset as Good/Evil, and act only as such, just feels lazy.
On top of that, the story itself simply didn't make sense. We are never given a clear understanding of how Luuna's special powers work, or the nature of her 'curse', or why she can't go home, or why these obnoxious little nature-gremlins follow her everywhere, or what exactly she is trying to accomplish... or anything about the world or characters or plot at all, really. This isn't just withholding information to build suspense--it's just sloppy writing. (Did I mention the nature-gremlins are freaking obnoxious? Also tonally discordant, like if someone took Underworld and superimposed Alvin and the chipmunks. And obnoxious.)
Didn't finish, and I do not regret that decision in the slightest.
Unfortunately, the actual product is disjointed, hard to follow, and frankly boring.
The duality of the dark wolf=evil, white wolf=good is overly simplistic: there are so many more interesting ways that device could have been used. The black wolf could represent violence, passion, connection to the earth, the primal urge to survive; the white could be mercy, or logic, or civilization and the world of Man. Having them be introduced from the outset as Good/Evil, and act only as such, just feels lazy.
On top of that, the story itself simply didn't make sense. We are never given a clear understanding of how Luuna's special powers work, or the nature of her 'curse', or why she can't go home, or why these obnoxious little nature-gremlins follow her everywhere, or what exactly she is trying to accomplish... or anything about the world or characters or plot at all, really. This isn't just withholding information to build suspense--it's just sloppy writing. (Did I mention the nature-gremlins are freaking obnoxious? Also tonally discordant, like if someone took Underworld and superimposed Alvin and the chipmunks. And obnoxious.)
Didn't finish, and I do not regret that decision in the slightest.
February 17, 2015
I found this book flipping through stacks of comics and graphic novels at a comic convention and decided to give it a try, knowing nothing about it. It's okay. I find the base of Native American culture interesting, but the characters and story weren't as compelling as I'd hoped. I think it's meant for younger audiences (elementary-middle school). I wish there'd been more interaction and conflict between the black and white wolf totems. It would have added more depth to see Luuna struggle more with the light/dark in her. Nothing amazing here, but it's alright. Good for younger readers.
January 28, 2015
I was really looking forward to reading this and I've ended up just feeling very underwhelmed. There is so much potential to the story but it never seems to fulfil it. The characters all seem a bit too "Disney" as well, as if this was a story they'd rejected so was made slightly sexierto appeal to grownups. If I see the next volume in the library, I may pick it up, but I won't be going out of my way to find it.
November 24, 2011
Luuna is the story of a girl of the same name who is from a special tribe that can talk to animals and woodland sprites (the latter of whom I found a bit annoying with all their complaining). This book begins her search for her spirit animal. While she is given two spirit animals in this story, Luuna must continue her quest to find her true self.
June 11, 2015
Eh. It was an okay start, but the art and the talking sprites remind me of the Disney version of Pocahontas. It's kind of difficult to take the book seriously.
October 1, 2011
Nice story, has potential with the duality of good and evil. It created a whole world of forest dwellers that is appealing. The artwork was pretty too. I liked this book.
November 1, 2014
Alur dan ide ceritanya bagus. Tokohnya mengingatkan pembaca pada tokoh Pochahontas.
January 30, 2015
The annoying nature spirit creatures - meant, I believe, for comic relief - are distracting and irritating. Still, nice to see a Native American female as a heroine in a graphic novel.
June 11, 2015
Eh. It was an okay start, but the art and the talking sprites remind me of the Disney version of Pocahontas. It's kind of difficult to take the book seriously.
July 14, 2013
interesting first nations mythology.
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