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Monster High Pride by Hannah Templer, Siobhan Keenan, Megan Brown, Bowen McCurdy
4.0
lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The art is so cute!! This is my first MH comic and I really do love it!!! 

Two cute little stories! Clawdeen and Toralei make a cute couple and I'm glad they start their story off a little rocky because I think it's incredibly in character. They both have very strong personalities, so It makes more sense that they don't mesh together perfectly 100% of the time. 

I wish Ghoulia had either gotten her own dedicated storyline, but this little storyline didn't really seem to fit into the Pride issue? It's a fun and cute little story and like I said, I wish it was given more time to be its own thing, but I also wish it was in a different comic. It kind of seems jammed in to fill a page count here. :/

Valentine and Spelldon's story is so cute! :,) 
It's nice to see him again and I'm glad he's trying to redeem himself and become a better person. This story was half the length of the other one, but I think the pacing works for only being 10 pages. I don't think I really need it to be longer, I just want more of Spelldon and Valentine together. 

Overall, I'm a little disappointed in how juvenile the comic is overall. The stories are life lessons for grade schoolers and are spelled out at the end like a children's TV show. I understand Monster High is a doll line and it's primary target audience is kids, but specifically a pride issue seems more for older fans. I'm not saying the characters need to fuck nasty on every page, but I do just wish this issue didn't feel like educational programming and was more similar to the novels that came out back when the series was first launched.