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1.0 out of 5 stars
"Maverick"?, November 16, 2010
This review is from: FAME: KRISTEN STEWART (Paperback)
If you've seen any movie magazines from the last few years, it's a given that you've seen the twitchy masklike face of Kristen Stewart staring at you.
It's also a given that anything related to the "Twilight" series or its stars is going to sell insanely well, even if it's a piece of garbage. And unfortunately, "Fame: Kristen Stewart" IS a piece of garbage -- a poorly-drawn, surreal and often silly comic book that desperately tries to convince you that Stewart is the female version of Johnny Depp.
As you'd expect, it cobbles together a brief biography of her life thus far -- her family, her early (terrible) career as a child actor, her (mostly terrible) career as a whiny teen star, her singing career (yeah, this was total filler), and her current career as the star of the "Twilight" movies. Unsurprisingly it focuses mostly on those movies and the fame resulting from them.
Since this is Bluewater Press -- who brought us that nightmarish Stephenie Meyer comic, as well as comics about Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama -- you pretty much know how good this comic book is. Even the comic book writers don't seem to actually like Stewart, since they make a point of noting her "lip-biting face" and her "characteristically awkward" behavior.
But don't worry, that doesn't stop them from desperately trying to convince us that Stewart "has never played the role of comformist"... except in almost every movie of her career, of course. According to the writers, she's some sort of gritty rebel who spits in the face of conventional starlet behavior because.... she did a few indie movies and once wore sneakers with a designer dress. She's as edgy as rice pudding.
Most of this comic book is a mass of pasted-together quotations from various interviews, which are threaded on a slow-moving, clunky narrative that scrabbles to find interesting stuff about her. We're even tortured with clumsy attempts to equate Stewart with her character Bella Swan (oh look, she's dressed in sloppy clothes and not talking to anyone! She's like Bella!).
And the art in this comic is just awful. It's not quite as dreadful as the Robert Pattinson and Stephenie Meyer comics, but Stewart literally looks like a different person from panel to panel, and all other people look like circus freaks. And the illustrators try -- and fail -- to spice it up with bad symbolism, such as a leering devil using a cyclone of movie film to tie up random movie starlets.
But Cartoonish Devil doesn't ensnare Stewart, of course! She's a "maverick" and "cultural icon," which means that "the word conventional is not in her repertoire".... even though she's starring in the "Twilight" series. How much more mainstream and conventional can you get?
"Fame: Kristen Stewart" is just painfully boring and bland, and even the writers seem disenchanted with Stewart despite their gushing praise. Wait for a seedy tell-all biography.
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