User:DJD-Benson
Original review author: | DJD-Benson In June 2024 |
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Webcomic name: | We've Got Issues |
Author: | Kk | WEBTOON (webtoons.com) |
Start Date: | Jan 18, 2023 |
End Date: | Ongoing, but in an irregular update rate. |
Genre: | Romance/Drama |
Defining Flaw: | The racist caricature artstyle, Blatant use of poorly photoshoped images and bad Soap Opera level storytelling. |
Rating Summary
Background
Watched a video about this webtoon on Youtube, and saw that user ZenForce was making their own review so I wanted to try it myself. So, this is my first review.
Downfall?
The Author, KK, made two more work before this. With the same art style. The first one, Juxtaposition, looks like this:
Their second work, The Crossroads:
And Finally, We've Got Issues. The two image below is from 2023 - 2024:
I want to believe the art style improved. But with how there's so many errors like the shadow figure in 2024 looks poorly erased. The fog on the white clothed woman's hair.
I didn't even touch the story. Or their speech bubble and how it's formatted.
I want to believe the author do care for their work. So, for now, I'm just coping here.
Story and Plot
Characters (There's more here, but these are the Main Focus)
Dione, She's the Main Character, the center focus of the story and narrative. Imagine Kim Kardashian as a stereotypical wealthy teenager who got gung-ho engaged to a random guy off the streets all because he looks 'sexy' and 'bad'.
That's part of her. Sass included.
Kage, He's Dione Husband. The reason how Dione got in trouble since he's Brother to Oman, who he also owes money too. He's angry a lot, doesn't care about Dione after their marriage which is the main problem of the story.
Oman, he's Kage's brother. Have been trying to get Kage to pay his debt to his family by attempting to kidnap Kage's Wife Dione.
Mr. Harris, Dione's Dad who owns a multimillion-dollar company. He retired and gave his company to Dione's husband for reasons unknown, even though there's really no reason to if he saw how he treated his kid.
So, what's the story?
Dione's relationship has been down on the dump. Her husband Kage hasn't been paying attention to her, always getting hissy and everything. Then one day she met Oman, he woo'ed her and from there he invited her to this rich celebritity meet-up where he discover she was Kage's wife, the guy who owed him money.
So he kidnaps her. She escaped easily. Her parents found out and one of their attendees/employees were the first to tell them. His name is Aiden.
Aiden found her at a bar. They talked about Oman, revealing he is Kage's brother.
Dione also found out Oman was with another girl. Why is this relevant? Because Oman was also charmed at Dione, a classic case of Stockholm.
That's a pretty barebones explanation...
I agree. It is barebones. Because the story's not that deep.
It's mimicking a combination of Soap Operas and Reality TV Personas, if the art-style hasn't made you think the author likes the Kardashians a little too much. But a simple story can be told interestingly what with Pinocchio or heck, even Soap Operas. This webtoon isn't the case.
It's worst offense (besides the racist/weird ahh art style previously and somewhat now) is the grammar and how characters convey their statements to each other.
It's 4 highlights sure. But that's four EASILY fixable highlights. These little errors stressed me for god-knows-why.
It makes re-reading this story hard and painful. Considering the image above explains the previous chapters more than the entire chapters themselves, that's a MAJOR problem. The explanation of the previous chapters clearing the entire story.
It sucks.
The Art style (It changes for the better, probably the reason why I have little hope for the author)
When I saw the artstyle, my first thought was, of course, The Kardashians. Because there's only one group of people with that kind of makeup. Judging the story, it's likely they were the Author's main inspiration.
Recently the art-style isn't as racist as before. It is the main selling point of the entire Webtoon, at least for those enjoying it ironically.
Best description of the art-style? 1950s Kardashians. You've got the big lips for sure, but the eyelash, the body dysmorphia can only be found on Bratz dolls.
Truly sickening, like a bloody car crash.
The Author
KK seem pretty young. It might explain why the grammar is terrible and the art-style very beginner. Other than his webtoon page they don't link any other social media.
Summary
It's terrible. For sure. The only way for the author to fix this entire series is to reboot it later on when they truly know their shit. How to write properly, how to color and do background right.
YouTube and the Internet as a whole is a good source to find things you want to learn those stuff.
If you're willing to fix your series that is.
Start with story first, make a draft and make sure everything from grammar, sentence structure and all is fix and high quality. Like you're writing an assignment for school. The art can come later since you've been doing bang up job making it more and more realistic (It's slow for sure but there is improvement.)
Links
KK's Creator Account
We've Got Issues Canvas site