New YA Comic Elle(s) Captures Genius of Pixar with Brilliant Premise (Review)
Warning: spoilers ahead for Elle(s) #1!
Being a teenager is hard, and nothing speaks to the difficulty of the tumultuous time of adolescence better than a great YA story like ABLAZE Publishing's Elle(s) #1.
Written by Kid Toussaint (Animal Jack, Magic 7) and drawn by Aveline Stokart, Elle(s) #1 is about Elle, a teenager who has just arrived in a new town. While most YA series would feature their protagonist experiencing difficulty acclimating to a new home and school, Elle gets along swimmingly. She immediately fits into a tight-nit crew of pals and manages to keep the resident mean girls off her back with her teen wit and attitude. Things seem to be going great for Elle until the stresses of her school and social lives start to build up, which is when things take an interesting and creative turn.
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Elle has several alternate personas, easily distinguishable thanks to each one's unique hair color. The prime Elle is marked with her usual pink colored hair. But when a situation is required that needs a bit more attitude, the rough-and-tough blonde Elle takes over. If Elle just can't handle the world around her, her timid brunette self retreats into a world of poetry and social media. When Elle just wants to cut loose, her jocular purple-haired self takes over and makes Elle the life of the party. Or, when trouble rears its head, Elle's non-verbal green-haired self gets protective. But none of the Elles are as strange as Elle's blue-haired self, who has some sort of plan brewing in the background. As Elle struggles with her personas' effect on her life, her new group of friends are determined to help Elle figure out the mystery of what's causing
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