Customer Reviews

Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes Volume 1 (Avril LaVigne's Make 5 Wishes Graphic Novels)

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This is a really good comic book.
Im not an avril fan, but I do love Manga. This book has excellent pictures, good length, great characters.
Best comic book out there in my opinion, dont wait to buy it, its great and you'll love it!

I cant wait till Volume 2!

Let me firstly say I'm a huge fan of Avril Lavigne, I've got all her albums, she's one of the few modern era young musicians who actually writes her own songs and lyrics. It is obvious though, that the editor, book publishers or whoever should have insisted she play a bit heavier part in writing this thing, as it is simply a pretty mediocre storyline. On the first page, we get a message from Avril where she tells us she is excited at the opportunity to create a graphic novel. However what part she actually played is a bit ambiguous as the concept on the next page is claimed by someone called Camilla d-Errico. Camilla also claims to have done the art and written the thing with someone else called Joshua Dysart. So did Avril sit around a boardroom table with these guys and give suggestions for the plot, who knows. One's things for sure, that amazing lyric writing talent should have been used instead of the drivel d-Errico and Dysart came up with. Saying what they wrote is pretty average is being very kind. There's hardly any substance to the plot of an unpopular loner girl, who talks to her imaginary hero and friend (Avril Lavigne). Hana stumbles upon a website called Makes Wishes and it's not really explained what she does or why but a box arrives with a very poorly drawn multiple horned red demon inside who encourages her rebellious streak such as urinating in the street. Oh and if she snaps of each of its five horns she gets a wish for each. Avril warns her time and again to not use the demon but Hana wants a better life.

The pictures are pretty average as well. Most of the characters look the same, even one of the girls who was making fun of Hana looked exactly like her but taller. The Avril Lavigne imaginary friend looks nothing like Avril, although they do seem to be able to draw Avril as she looks more realistic in the posters on walls.

Plus we have the ultimate con, the graphic novel doesn't actually end. It just cuts out as if a whole story was written and ripped in two. So therefore if one of your five wishes was to know if two of Hana's four wishes made so far will also come true, as well as what her fifth is, you'll have to buy volume 2. Unethically this isn't mentioned anywhere on the cover. Buying this you'd assume it's a standalone read.

I really enjoyed reading this manga; however, that's probably because I'm a fan of Avril Lavigne. Overall it's amusing for just a few minutes.

Based on trite melancholic themes, it's about a lonely pre-teen girl, lost in a headphone haze from listening to too Avril Lagivne, who uses five wishes given to her from a demon to make her happier and more popular.

Despite the cheesiness, Avril Lavigne herself is written into the 2nd volume in an ending I didn't foresee.

It's a good book left me on a cliffhanger but it just makes you want to buy the other book. I can't wait for the other book!!!!

This is anawsome manga! I love Avril Lavigne... But also the story is great! Goes into depth with the characters! And the storyline is good!

I can only imagine what sort of unholy focus group thought a manga about Avril Lavigne saving the day would be a great idea. The dialogue is terrible, the art isn't exactly top-notch, and the story... well, what story? It's a cash-in, pure and simple.

But I'm being a little unfair to the book... I'm sure it'd be great for fixing a wobbly table leg.