 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. You've already seen the title of this video. You might be wondering why I'm not in front of the King bookshelves. That's because I do not believe that King had any part in this. Not that that affected it, affected my rating whatsoever. But today we are talking about Sleeping Beauty's The Graphic Novel. These were released as individual comics and I bought the The Bind Up Graphic Novel with the first five first five, not episodes, first five issues in one package. I need to preface this review because I know that one of the authors of this adaptation, Rio Ewers, sometimes watches in my videos, especially when I talk about his books. Rio, if you are watching, I probably would click away. You tried. That's all I really want to say to you. This is no detriment to you because I still did not like this book, this story, even with your talent involved. I have nothing but the highest respect for you and I'm just going to jump into the review. I had the same problem with the graphic novel as I did the novel itself, the novel it's based on, which is Sleeping Beauty's by Stephen King and Owen King. The reason why I'm doing this review specifically is because in my review of Sleeping Beauty's, I mentioned how it was supposed to be a TV show, how it was kind of started that way and it became a novel instead. And I said that it might be a better visual story than it is a written story, a story and narrative. I was wrong. And I want to make that clear right up front that I was completely wrong. The things that I did not like about the narrative, the same things that I do not like about this book. And that's like, it's the rehash of Under the Dome. It's the no unique characters. We've seen all these characters before Stephen and Owen did absolutely nothing new with characters that King has been writing about his entire career. I usually don't have that problem with Stephen King. I also find Owen King to be a fantastic writer. I absolutely love Double Feature, gave it five stars. I adored it. I still haven't gotten to his novella short story collection. I plan to in November actually. And I really do not think that I will dislike it because I tend to love it when he's in his wheelhouse. He's more of a literary writer. He doesn't tackle horror all that often. And there was something lacking from this. I don't know if because he was outside of his wheelhouse, but I didn't even think the writing was up to snuff for Double Feature. Double Feature was so good. I put it up there with books like Infinite Jest as far as the writing is concerned. Fantastic book. A Double Feature, by the way. I still think about the film in the story. I still think about things like that. Just the same way I always think about Infinite Jest. Anytime I think about what is it? Not cult classics, but movies that are kind of off the grid. Movies that nobody's watched. There's a little bit of mystery behind it, all that stuff. In fact, I plan to reread Double Feature eventually. I'm saying all of that to say, again, this does not work for me. The artwork, I especially did not like the artwork. I don't know what it is about American comic books. They are super inconsistent. Sometimes in this one, I know it's probably like an art style thing, but I don't vibe with it. Sometimes the art is very childish. It's not colored in the lines. It bleeds outward. I know it's probably on purpose, but there are times when you see a very striking image well done, but it's just so few and far between. The only thing I liked about this was the representation of Evie. But once again, I'm reminded of how much this is like Storm of the Century. How much it's like under the dome. There are just so many King things here. And like Gwendi's Magic Feather, it felt like Stephen King fanfiction. There's really nothing you can do about that. But I thought maybe in a visual medium, whether it be graphic novel or an eventual TV show or movie or whatever, I thought maybe that would fix the problems that I had with the narrative. Maybe it didn't. The biggest gripe I have was with the very first issue. I started disliking it right away because of the way it jumped around. In the novel, it jumps around kind of the same way. I don't remember it being as chaotic. In this graphic novel, you'd have one page from one character and then jump over to an entirely new character on another page. And then another page would be an entirely new character and it just bounced around. And I honestly, I was confused. And I had read and remembered the book. I've read Sleeping Beauty twice. Once the text and one time listening to the audio book. I do that with all of Stephen King's books, no matter how much I love or hate them. I always give them multiple chances. I need to go ahead and give the novel another chance. But I'll probably wait a couple of years because I already, I'm dreading it just mentioning, you know, giving it a third try. Because I've given all of King's stuff three tries. One more thing. And people say sometimes I harp on things and I do, but I truly respect Rio Ewers. But I don't think anything could have saved this story. It just, it just does not gel well with me because of the, I think my biggest complaint is how reused it is. And if I'm going to be honest, and I'm going to say I can't stand Dean Coons for doing this same thing. I can't give Stephen King or Owen King for that matter a pass. There are some things in here that I do not remember from the book. And I don't know if that's my memory or if that's additional content added in. I think so because some of the protesting things I believe were, you know, were inspired by actual events that happened after the book was released. I could be wrong. I probably am because I tried to block out as much as possible about the book. Anyways, so again, the reason I'm here is because I wanted to correct myself. It was not better in a visual medium. And while I respect all three authors. And let me go ahead and mention before I leave out of here, Allison Samson and Triana Farrell, their roles, I believe they might have been writers, I don't know. I'm not familiar with their work, unfortunately. But those are the issues that I had. And I appreciate the effort that was involved in creating this. It's just not for me. But if you tried the graphic novels or the comic books, oh by the way, I won't be continuing on with this so you don't have to worry about any more negative reviews about this series. Have you read the graphic novel of Sleeping Beauties? If you have, please let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it, whether you hated it, whether or not you felt mad about it, any of those things. But tell me why you felt that way in detail so that we can have a discussion. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U. This has been another episode of 31 Days of Halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!