#ghoulfriends forever

[freaky-flawless]

I'm like halfway through the first Ghoulfriends book and main three are so annoying. I'm hoping it's like a character flaw thing, where they'll recognize it and get better over the course of the series, but oof. Gitty did these ghouls so wrong.

They're beefing with Cleo for no reason...Venus flipped out on her out of nowhere (in the middle of class, unprovoked!!) for using paper bags and then sprayed her with hypno pollen, meanwhile Rochelle, who is in her own relationship, is hardcore flirting with her man!!! I wish the author had been more original when it came to giving them a "frenemy" there are so many options aside from Cleo! (Honestly Operetta would have been an interesting choice, but whatever)

Robecca's characterization is the most tolerable, but she's incredibly rambly, and the author decided to give her a bad sense of time for...reasons. And despite being British, she uses oddly Southern phrases while talking...its super strange. With Venus and Rochelle, I can see where her mind went with writing their characters, but Robecca honestly seems so opposite to her canon personality.

And her backstory was kinda mangled too. It's acknowledged that she was disassembled, and recently reassembled, and even that she previously lived with Mrs. Kindergrubber, but she's treated like a brand new student. No acknowledgement that it was Ghoulia who put her back together!

I understand giving the characters a fresh take, but it would have been pretty simple to integrate the actual canon. Robecca and Rochelle were introduced in the same movie, they were new to Monster High, just not new to all of the characters.

[aneverlastinghalloween]

[kita-draculaura]

Artwork from the "Ghoulfriends: The Ghoul-It-Yourself Book" by Gitty Daneshvari

[oceanicpride]

Cover art of the upcoming YA novel: Once Bitten, Twice Dead by Tiffany Schmidt

Release date: 7/16/24

Full description:

Get your spook on with the classic Monster High characters—the ghouls that started it all—while they hit up their old haunts in this all-new, original YA novel starring Draculaura, set in the world of Mattel’s Monster High, and written by author Tiffany Schmidt

When a horrific loss throws Monster High into a state of grave upheaval, Draculaura and the other ghouls find themselves coping in different ways. Cleo and her family sense opportunity in the mayhem, grasping at control and leaving the rest of the ghouls’ loyalties divided.

For her part, the chaos at school is making Draculaura sick. She feels more exhausted by the day, and she finds escape only by slipping away to the cemetery to pore over her mom’s old journals. It’s there that she meets Poe, a handsome human harboring some darkness of his own. Soon Draculaura finds herself caught in an impossible web of lies. If her ghoulfriends find out she’s fallen for a normie, they’ll freak. And if Poe discovers she’s a vampire, his monster-hunting dad may have a stake in the matter.

Meanwhile, dangerous events have begun plaguing the halls of Monster High. The gargoyles stage a mutiny, and the water in the swimming pool boils while Lagoona is swimming laps. When the magical protections around the school borders falter and a group of normies stumble onto campus, Draculaura and the other ghouls know something needs to be done before Monster High becomes Monster Die.

But there’s a secret about Draculaura that no one—not Poe, the other ghouls, or even she—was aware of until now: a secret tied to the school’s very marrow. When Draculaura and Ghoulia uncover ancient texts that reveal the full implications of her identity, Draculaura is forced to make an impossible choice that will alter her identity forever.

Will her loyalties to Monster High determine all their fates? Or will Draculaura succumb to a dangerous passion that makes her feel more . . . alive than she ever has?

[sentientgolfball]

mist and sunshine being sun and moon girlfriends is so real to me now, i'm gonna think about this forever /pos

GUH IM SO GLAD

I know I have other posts around here somewhere about them. Hm.

Anyways

They’re perfect compliments of each other. Sunny is bright and energetic and extroverted. Mist is quiet and cold and straightforward. Sunshine was an entertainer for the Lords of Hell and Mist lived a solitary life as a deep sea water ghoul. Now they’re violently in love.

Mist was the one fell first. She’s familiar with attraction of course I mean her and Sunny have fallen together a few times in the famous ghoulette nights. But watching her from afar as she went about her day to day life made Mist feel something else. And she had no idea what it was. Actually at first she thought it was her heat cycle fucking up but then Ifrit laughed at her and told her what love is by explaining how he feels about Zeph. Mist found the story useless. But she couldn’t deny…she definitely was feeling something towards Sunny.

God and when they finally get together after Mist eventually confesses they’re just guh. Mist is even more of a shark than Rain like. She has killed Siblings who have hurt Sunny’s feelings before and she will happily do it again. Mind you harming the Siblings is an offense that will get a ghoul sent back to the Pits without hesitation.

And ohhhh they just help each other so much like. Mist is able to calm Sunny’s racing mind when she convinces herself she’s nothing but a joke and she has no worth outside of making people laugh. Sunny helps Mist be more open and sociable while still listening to her when she says it’s time to go. Mist is just about the only person Sunny can sit in silence without doing anything. Just existing.

I just really really really like my sun and moon ghoulfriends.

[monsterhigharchive]

Book Illustrations from Ghoulfriends Forever (2012)

[ghoulish-skullects]

A new Monster High YA book is in the works by Tiffany Schmidt!

it is said to be cannon the the G1 world!

…tho is seems like so much is happening and many characters are in intense danger!?!

edit: the book is available for preorder on amazon!!

What do yall think?

The synopsis:

When a horrific loss throws Monster High into a state of grave upheaval, Draculaura and the other ghouls find themselves coping in different ways. Cleo and her family sense opportunity in the mayhem, grasping at control and leaving the rest of the ghouls' loyalties divided.

For her part, the chaos at school is making Draculaura sick. She feels more exhausted by the day, and she finds escape only by slipping away to the cemetery to pore over her mom's old journals. It's there that she meets Poe, a handsome human harboring some darkness of his own. Soon Draculaura finds herself caught in an impossible web of lies. If her ghoulfriends find out she's fallen for a normie, they'll freak. And if Poe discovers she's a vampire, his monster-hunting dad may have a stake in the matter.

Meanwhile, dangerous events have begun plaguing the halls of Monster High. The gargoyles stage a mutiny, and the water in the swimming pool boils while Lagoona is swimming laps. When the magical protections around the school borders falter and a group of normies stumble onto campus, Draculaura and the other ghouls know something needs to be done before Monster High becomes Monster Die.

But there's a secret about Draculaura that no one-not Poe, the other ghouls, or even she-was aware of until now: a secret tied to the school's very marrow. When Draculaura and Ghoulia uncover ancient texts that reveal the full implications of her identity, Draculaura is forced to make an impossible choice that will alter her identity forever.

Will her loyalties to Monster High determine all their fates? Or will Draculaura succumb to a dangerous passion that makes her feel more ... alive than she ever has?

credit to cleosnile for sourcing photos and the books blurb/summary/synopsis!

[truemonsterheart]

I wonder if the writer of this Book was a Fan of a certain Sitcom from the 80s.

Ghoulfriends Forever

[lauri-rosehearts]

Hot unstable people still use in-universe-canon show lingo

“Ghoulfriend”

“Hexciting”

“Everypony”

“Best friends forever after”

“Oh my Ghoul”

………..Its me! I’m “hot unstable people”

[taybatwo2]

Monster High IDW Comics Review: Part 2 of ?: Monster High Pride 2024 Issue (“Summer Fangout”)

This is taking forever for me to get out, but I had stopped in at my local comic book shop and picked up the single issue MH Pride when it first released.

Part 1:

https://www.tumblr.com/taybatwo2/754406016295321600/monster-high-idw-comics-review-part-13-the-fcbd?source=share

Part 3:

https://www.tumblr.com/taybatwo2/754555603918127104/monster-high-idw-comics-review-part-3-of?source=share

Part 4:

https://www.tumblr.com/taybatwo2/754946130507333632/monster-high-idw-comics-review-part-4-of?source=share

Part 5: 

https://www.tumblr.com/taybatwo2/755042011333132288/monster-high-idw-comics-review-part-5-of?source=share

This is the first release in the MH IDW run (the Free Comic Book Day is a preview to the actual series). It is 37 pages long (30 of actual story) and was 5.99. Mattel hired several people from the LGBTQIA+ community to work on the artwork of this comic too (a great addition). 

It has two stories “Summer Fangout” and “I Put a Spell on You.” I will explore the second short story in my next post.

“Summer Fangout” by Hannah Templer (she/her - has a HUGE comic art portfolio and a graphic novel series called Cosmoknights and her own website).

Art by Siobhan Keenan (she/her, also did the artwork in the FCBD issue and has a ton of GORGEOUS art on -Twitter- “x” and Instagram: @ siobhanchiffon).

Colored by Rebecca Nalty (she/her, also worked on the FCBD Issue, and has beautiful artwork on her own website and Instagram: @ sharkberri).

The front cover’s art was by Betsy Cola (she/her, she shows off her lovely art on Instagram: @ betsy.cola). I also kept reading her name as: Batsy Claro. Ha!

I like how they are wearing each other’s traditional claw-polish, the pride flag in the scratch in the background and the stenciled hearts. Toralei has a little lesbian pin (I would have thought she was bi-sexual due to dating Rocko and even going to prom with Jackson in the Monster High Website Prom’s Night In Scare-adise). I do really wish Toralei’s nose was colored in.

Both shorts had Kielamel Sibal as the letterer (she/her, her lovely artwork is on Instagram @ labis_lemaleik), Riley Farmer as the editor (she/her, I think, I can’t access her LinkedIn profile), and production/design done by Johanna Nattalie (she/her and has worked on a lot of IDW Sonic titles). All three had worked previously on the FCBD issue.

It is 20 pages long (double that of the second short story).

My comic book shop had 3 volumes when I got there (an hour after opening) and I bought the only Spelldon/Valentine cover Variant there (the artwork for all three variants are in the back of the issue -apparently there was a black and white IDW Exclusive done by Rose Bousamra and I especially like how Cleo and Clawdeen were drawn here).

I am curious as to how they were stocked at other comic book shops.

I am generally not a floppies collector, but I wanted to make an exception for MH G1’s pride comic (I assume it will be in the collected series, but it is a one shot and I wanted to support pride, AND get a good look at the official Spelldon). My Spelldon really wanted to compare himself with the official version…which I might do in another post because I think those kinds of things are fun.

Synopsis: “Summer Fangout” shows Clawdeen and Toralei trying to build a summer fangout for their ghouls; they meet two new ghouls to help them out, and gremlins get in the way of building it. All the while, Ghoulia is gaming and talking favorite characters with Kjersti.

My personal opinions/review of the comic is under the cut:

To try and prevent copyright infringement, I whited out the speech bubbles in this issue.

page 1:

“Summer Fangout” starts off with Clawdeen painting Toralei’s claws in the Wolf family backyard, which I could have sworn was said to be huge in other media (as they were always having HUGE family BBQ’s there), but here it is so crowded that the ghoulfriends are thinking about different ways to get away.   Lagoona is mentioned (so maybe she didn’t get “boiled alive” in “Once Bitten”), so is Purrsephone (not her sister though), and Cleo (who just redid their pool in solid gold but apparently didn’t want to invite all her ghoulfriends over to celebrate it -big missed opportunity for a pool party Cleo).

Their beverages are lemonade and….gingerbread cookies….oh…what a tasty combination. Clawdeen and Toralei look really pretty in the first panel (Toralei and Clawdeen’s nails are their traditional shades here, which is a shame, I would have liked them to have it switched like the alternate cover). Clawdeen continues to be gorgeous in the second and third panel too.

And Toralei looks perfect here:

But she is still looking a bit off….

Her nose! It’s too pointy!!!

They didn’t give Toralei her little cat nose! Even when it wasn’t colored in on the doll, she still had a little, blunt cat nose!!! 

Also, seeing Clawdeen’s siblings (and one mystery brother) is cute! Look at little Howleen just vibing and Clawdia chilling. 

The clawwwww. Their hands still look a bit off, and I’ve already mentioned in my FCBD post that this artist’s hands just look a bit off in these comics.

page 2:

Toralei complements her ghoulfriend on her maniclaw (ha!), the two ghouls complain that none of their friends have a secret base/lair, and they decide to make their own space out in the woods (away from other monsters) a “Purrfect Summer Fangout!”

Well, I’m pretty sure Cleo and Draculaura have huge homes that everyone can fangout in and the catacombs were usually the go-to place to find killer fangouts, but to the haunted woods we go!!

What if they had made this short comic all about camping instead…? Clawdeen would have had more experience camping with her Family/pack, Toralei could have bemoaned not having a great eye-coffin signal for a whole weekend! They could have butted heads about setting up camp (on every family camping trip I’ve been on this has been the case), or someone forgot something, they could get lost in the woods and Toralei could climb a tree to see where to go/Clawdeen could help track down some of her friends that also came along, Toralei could go fishing!!! Maybe they find a misunderstood monster in the woods?? They could have DESIGNED them new little CAMPING outfits…. *cries*

Human-nosed Toralei looks very lovely and has a very cat-like posture in the first panel that really captures her (but her spikes are missing in her jacket and her pointer finger still looks a bit off). I think Clawdeen looks good in all these panels, with the fourth being a standout due to her canines being actually visible outside of her lips. I think the artist captures Clawdeen pretty well (her wavy hair especially) but her nose still looks both too small and oddly straight and pointy.

Also, Toralei’s glove is not outlined in the last panel and her jacket’s spikes have the outline of her collar running through them.

Just my opinion, but I feel the paneling in this short jumps around instead of flowing well together. For example, on just this page, it starts off with Clawdeen kneeling down beside Toralei (cute), then the camera shifts behind Clawdeen and Toralei is holding a gingerbread cookie, next Clawdeen is standing up BEHIND Toralei, and the cookie is not shown again in any of the panels (like this one could have had Toralei holding up the cookie with a bite taken out of it and taking with her mouth full to just show some continuation), the next panel has Clawdeen back on the ground/in front of Toralei and hing her hands (cute, but this would have been less jumpy if she just would have stayed kneeling next to her ghoulfriend), and then in the final panel of the page, they are both standing up BUT THE FIRST PANEL of page 3 they are once again sitting together (with Clawd standing over them). It’s like they’re afraid of just having these characters sit (or stand) still and talk. That can still be intriguing!

page 3:

Clawd overhears the two ghouls getting excited about something. Toralei is excited to share their “secret lair,” while Clawdeen is more than happy to tell Clawd their “SECRET FANGOUT” is for fiends only, no brothers. Clawd mentions the woods are cursed, and one time his casketball went over their fence and climbed a tree on its own. Clawdeen is done hearing her brother talk and takes her ghoulfriend to get her dad’s toolbox and take her into the woods -to make out- to decorate. Clawd yells after them that he warned them.

I missed snarky Clawdeen so much. This is now my favorite drawing of Clawdeen in this whole comic. I can hear her Brooklyn accent seeping off the page!!

But Clawd, oh poor Clawd. I like seeing him appear and his facial expression is good in the first panel, but why is his nose so small and pointy in some of these panels?! Also, his hands look so stiff in the last panel…

I assume the artist was working off of pictures of his Forbitten Love doll, because he is missing his killer cheek bones he has in the animated show/movies and artwork.

Another couple of nitpicks…is their backyard connected to the woods because we already see glowing eyes in the third panel? Also, Clawd’s flashback of losing his casketball could be conveyed clearer to the reader (like lighter colors or any lines separating the speaker from the action) otherwise it looks like his casketball he just had in the crook of his arm in the first panel has also JUST ran up the tree too. Also in the fifth panel, Clawd’s right ear is intersected with the outline of his cap.

page 4:

Meanwhile Ghoulia and Kjersti are gaming together and talking about their favorite “Skulltimate Creep Fighters” characters (“Barb E. Rian” (HA) is Kjersti’s and “Nika Románcer” (whose name I don’t think has a doll pun to it, but it might have gone right over my head) is Ghoulia’s). Kjersti claims Barb is the best, even the pros know it, and the hits on her Barb fangfic solidify ”prove it.” She inadvertently dunks on how unpopular Ghoulia’s Nika fangfic is (and begrudgingly admits that it isn’t bad BUT Nika’s stats are still inferior).

Kjersti looks really cute in the fourth panel and really cute in her Chibi-fied sixth panel. Ghoulia looks nice in the first panel. Her and Ghoulia’s hands still look poorly traced (it really reminds me of G3’s original doll box artwork looking really off and the reason was Mattel took the early design work done by Anna Cattish -a really good artist- and either poorly traced it, or had another artist poorly copy it). Ghoulia’s hand outline is SUPER light blue in the fifth panel (maybe to show that is being lit up, but it’s not seen anywhere else). However, I am missing Ghoulia’s sunken in cheek, and Kjersti’s more rounded features/HUGE ears in this art style. They all kinda have the same face shape (including noses, eyes and lips).

Something a bit distracting was Kjersti insisting that Barb has the best stats was partially due to her Rotpad fic has more attention, and I don’t think that’s how game was“STATS” work. I feel like Kjersti should have just been talking about how Barb is best because all the pros agree she has the best stats AND her fangfic get the most hits on Rotpad. Then she shows off how well her fangfic is doing. Then Kjersti could say: Niki isn’t well liked, because she only has a few fics with only a few hits -THEN she can notice that Ghoulia’s handle wrote most of those and apologizes for putting her foot in her mouth - OR Ghoulia sees that Niki doesn’t have many fangfics and decides to start writing some/challenges Kjersti to a fangfic writing competition…? Either way, this could be a learning opportunity that even smaller character have their own fans too, fitting for Monster High and their myriad of characters. This is a good time to bring up the HEAVY USE of puns in this. It’s not unusually for G1 MH, but a bit of them in this comic are a bit forced or miss the mark: “Skulltimate Creep Fighter….?” Eh. How about “Skulltimate Street Biter??” “Spider-Hammock” is fine, but what about “web-hammock?” “Rotpad” instead of “Watpad,” “Fangfiction” instead of “Fanfiction” and “Howlware store” instead of “Hardware Store” are all good though.

page 5:

Kjersti still claims that Barb is the “beast” due to her numbers and “claw-culations,” and that’s she’s still beating Ghoulia. Ghoulia is saddened by Kjersti being dismissive of her feelings, again, and says it’s on (oh, Ghoulia still speaks in moans and groans in this and, oh how I’ve missed it). Also, Ghoulia sits like “L” from Death Note when she games (which is cute) and has posters/figurines all over her wall of this new character and Deadfast (yesssss). 

Looking at the last panel on this page, you can kinda see more of Barb’s design and see that the reason she has some odd looking legs in page 4 is due to her pants being incorrectly colored to look like skin.

page 6:

The Ghoulfriends come across a clearing and start putting decorations up, but Clawdeen is annoyed how Toralei doesn’t stick with a project/is moving too fast and her stuff is starting to go missing.

The top panel has a lot of nice energy to it. Clawdeen’s expression in the last panel is good (I kinda wish the whole “gremlin” was not yet shown, and maybe we see just a sneak peak of a foot or claw reaching into the tool box). Toralei looks really nice in most of these panels too and Clawdeen’s nose looks more accurate in the first, fourth and fifth panels (wahoo), but her right ears are placed a bit too far on her head on the first and third panel. Her teeth are partially colored red in the fourth panel, and her ear is drawn through her left gold hoops in the fifth panel.

Clawdeen calls Toralei “kitten” and that is so cute.

page 7:

Clawdeen is concerned about the missing tools, while Toralei tells her she probably just misplaced it (even if they haven’t used it yet), and Toralei keeps jumping from project to project while Clawdeen gets stuck moving the rock by herself, stuck in the “spider-hammock” and getting frustrated, but Toralei doesn’t seem to notice or hear her. Toralei ends the page by telling Clawdeen not to stand around. I liked that Toralei called Clawdeen “poochie and climbed the tree with the lights stuck in her mouth (that’s very on brand for her). Toralei’a and Clawdeen expressions were pretty good on this page, but Clawdeen in panel five had a very low right ear, super pointed nose and weird hand. In panel three, above Clawdeen’s left ear, it should be colored dark green as it’s the rest of the forest, not another rock.

page 8:

Okay. By a writing standpoint, this page is kinda confusing, so I’m going to do a panel, by panel breakdown to see if this makes sense to anyone else. Toralei asks Clawdeen where their stuff is at and Clawdeen asks her the same thing and that’s she’s been running around “like a freshblood at fearleading tryouts.” (Toralei, your ghoulfriend has been asking you were her tools are this whole time, and Clawdeen, Toralei went everywhere but the tools- this exchange would have worked better if the tools were already out of the toolbox before they went missing). Toralei answers that her “creativity can’t be tamed”and if Clawdeen wasn’t hung up on every little detail they’d be farther along. (Clawdeen didn’t mention anything about creativity, and wasn’t slowed down by focusing on something for too long, she was busy finishing Toralei’s projects and looking for her tools). Clawdeen says she thinks aesthetics are really important too (WHAT AESTHETICS?!?) and Toralei responds that she has learned the only way to get things done is to do things herself (????? But she hasn’t done everything herself, Clawdeen put the other side of the “spider-hammock” up, moved your rock for you and was trying to get you a hammer and some rope for the lights).

Toralei trips? Falls?? I THINK is startled by the parasoul opening up and falls to the ground (understandable cat reaction it’s just not the clearest here). Clawdeen asks (before Toralei falls) how that was going for her (this one makes more sense because things are falling apart so far). Suddenly Clawdeen looks apologetic and kneels down to Toralei. She tells Toralei that she thought couples were supposed to be good at these things and they should be able to work together. Torelai angrily spats that they are working together Clawdeen just needs TO KEEP UP (the mood shift is really sudden and I think this is what should have been the focus on this page because this was the actual issue they were having as a couple: how to work together!! Like maybe Toralei should have said Clawdeen’s line and Clawdeen should have said Toralei needs to wait until they’re done working on something before moving on, otherwise she gets overwhelmed. Because the next panel would have flowed better into that!).

Clawdeen and Toralei stand up and look at the empty toolbox and Toralei (whose mouth is CLOSED - it looks like Clawdeen should have been speaking since her mouth is parted and why did they put the speech bubble covering them both up! They could have moved it over so Clawdeen is speaking, and you can actually see these ghouls closeness) says that they need to get more tools if they want to get anything done (I guess neither apologize to each other for their earlier outbursts, and Clawdeen is going to ignore the fact that Toralei is putting the blame on Clawdeen for not keeping up).

Clawdeen pulls Toralei to the Howlware store to get more tools and maybe get someone to help them get organized (organization might be part of the problem, but I don’t think a Howlware employee is going to help walk you guys through learning to listen to what the other person needs and teach you to slow down if your partner is getting left behind).

I also thought Clawdeen was more of a go-getter/self starter and Toralei was a stand-back and work on the most entertaining/fun parts of a project. Besides those critiques, these are all great panels of Clawdeen, and Toralei looks good in the sixth panel. I like that they mention they ARE a couple, Clawdeen and Toralei holding each other’s hands is really sweet and I love them standing together in the sixth panel. The spider-hammock is continually something that Clawdeen is messing with in panels 1-3, and that’s a nice sense of continuity. Toralei’s ear is lightly over colored in the third panel and grey was randomly added to her right ear in the fourth panel. The parasoul looks like it has a bit of the top of Clawdeen’s right ear drawn on it.

WHY?!?!

page 9:

Cut back to Ghoulia and Kjersti (Kjersti has her large ears again - yay). Kjersti (I guess can sense) Ghoulia has been writing more fics for her character and Kjersti can’t help but brag about how much better her brand boo fangfic is doing (that has a Barb Vs Nika angle…I mean…I think Kjersti is pulling in the readers who want the enemies to lovers for this pairing, but that’s just me). I assume they are taking this angle because she’s soft core “trolling” Ghoulia. Ghoulia throws her iCoffin over her shoulder (I would have just hung up on her), uploads her newest chapter to her fangfic and stomps out of her room.

But again, this just seems so odd? If they were having a fangfic writing competition (like I mentioned on their last appearance) it would make more sense to me why they are suddenly so interested in the fangfic side of their favorite characters, and why Kjersti would be bragging about it…or soft-core trolling Ghoulia. OR what if she still didn’t know that Ghoulia had written the few fangfics for Nika and decided to write more of a smear fic about Nika (to prove to Ghoulia that not many people like Nika). Then she brags to Ghoulia about doing huge numbers on this smear fic is. Ghoulia still hangs up on her, posts her Nika fangfic and storms off as fast as her Zombie legs will let he, to go dish to Cleo.

I like seeing more of Ghoulia’s room, I like the detail on Kjersti’s hat, seeing her large ears, and Ghoulia’s facial expressions. Nitpicks: In the fifth panel, half of Kjersti’s glasses were flipped to make the other side (that’s why their perspective is off). In the third panel, the writing on Ghoulia’s iCoffin does not lay correctly on the perspective of her phone. In the first panel, the stand that holds the monitor also should have had another line on its left side to make its perspective match the monitor’s and keyboards.

Why would you want to make Ghoulia sad…or angry?? She is smart enough to hack into a space laser or nuclear facility and aim it at your house.

Well, we are about half way through the first short comic in the Pride issue and I’ve maxed out my picture capacity. Hopefully I’ll have the second one out shortly…gosh I really hope so, I want to work on something else (Toralei’s work ethic is very relatable to me!!!).

But what were your guys’ thoughts? Did you like it more than me so far? Less?? Did I misinterpret the message and the relationships?? Am I wrong about the artwork and pacing?? Do you agree? Have any favorite panels?? Let me know your thoughts. :) 

[oftlunarialmoon]

Monster High “Ghoulfriends Forever” Book Review

Originally posted to www.onlyfunthings.org on August 13, 2018

Ciao lovelies! Today I have for you all a book review! The book I will be reviewing is “Ghoulfriends Forever” one of the Monster High books I like to read.

This book is part of the Ghoulfriends series and is book #1 in the series which includes 4 books and an activity book. It is written by Gitty Daneshvari, who is also the author of the School of Fear series (which I have not read yet).

I found this book in my local thrift shop for $1, but online on Amazon, it’s $10 for hardcover, $2 for paperback. This book is the first in a four part series.

This book’s plot focuses on 3 new students to Monster High, Venus McFlytrap, Rochelle Goyle, and Robecca Steam. These three ghouls just transferred to Monster High and become roommates. Not only are they new, but there is also a new teacher at Monster High, Miss Flapper, the dragon whisperer. But when the students of the school begin to appear brainwashed, it’s up to our three protagonists to save the school!

This book is two hundred and sixty pages long, in large font with some illustrations done by Darko Dordevic. 

Here are some examples of the illustrations:

I also really like how the page numbers have hearts around them, I think that's really cute.

This book is at a reading level recommended to grades 6-8, but I found it was still enjoyable even for myself, a college student. The book even has some basic French vocabulary thanks to Rochelle Goyle’s Parisian heritage.

Overall, I found this book to be an enjoyable read. It does end on a cliffhanger, so reader beware, you will want to buy the next book! I have read the first two books in this series and am currently wanting to buy the next. Each book ends on a cliffhanger that leads to the next.

If I could change one thing about this book, I would let the 3 protagonists interact with the students of Monster High more. I enjoyed seeing a different perspective on classic ghouls like Frankie Stein and Draculaura.

This book gets a 5/5 rating from me. I would recommend this book if you are a fan of Monster High and want a new series to enjoy.

Thanks for reading my book review! If you liked this post, I highly recommend you check out our Adventures of the Ghoul Squad TV Show Review, or our Monster High Electrified Movie Review!

Remember to Stay Awesome and Love Yourself!

[freaky-flawless]

Ah ok, the Ghoulfirends books have aged just as poorly as the Lisi Harrison novels.

[inky-snowdrop]

Love Is Love

A 2023 L.G.B.T+ Aesthetic Collection

Day 23 • Rochelle Goyle is Transgender!

Day 22 • Day 24

👇🏽 Pride Headcanons Below! 👇🏽

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Has always experimented with fashion, even as a little ghoul. It was through fashion that Rochelle discovered that she was a girl. Her parents allowed her creative side flourish and she was allowed to express herself in any way she wanted growing up 🌼

Though she loved the Skulltimate Roller Derby, it definitely caused a bit of internal conflict. She wanted to play, but women weren't accepted in the sport. So for a long time (in order for her to play the sport she loved), she pretended to be a man and wore that heavy derby armor as cover. When she saw the ghouls at Monster High compete in the competition, Rochelle decided that enough was enough and that she needed to be true to herself

Garrott and Rochelle have been together for as long as she can remember. They were childhood sweethearts and they grew into a relationship as they got older. Even when Garrott disappeared, the bond that they had never faded. Rochelle and Garrott are still together to this day and they are happier than ever! 🥰🥰

Rochelle, Robecca, and Venus have attended multiple pride events over the years (with Rochelle as trans, Robecca as non-binary, and Venus as a lesbian). Everytime Monster High has a Pride celebration, the ghoulfriends are right in the front of the crowd, cheering and waving as many flags as they can possibly carry! Even their pets get in on it! Garrott comes too sometimes and he waves around his own pansexual flag for all to see. It's a great time all around!

Rochelle doesn't look back on her past self negatively. She finds her old self to be kinda disturbing, but she doesn't hate them. She knows that her old body got her to be where she is today and she will forever be grateful for that.

If Rochelle had to pick a song to describe her gender, she'd pick: Dereniére danse by Indila

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[matt-the-patate]

Alright so I've just finished the Ghoulfriends forever book and yeah they never explain the Jackson situation but k'now what I need to accept that he is a minor character and that i need to get over myself BUT i have other things to say: first off

Why does Robecca has an icoffin ?( i do base myself of off the webisodes even if the monster high franchise is used to incoherences) but still it doesn't make sense, because it stops the "from another time" trope which makes her too close to Operetta ( another underated character )

Also the book is weirdly racist with those Romanian twin vampires for absolutely 0 reason. Like it's not a plot point, it's not relevant and again even for something that came out in 2012 that's super weird and racist

Which brings me to my third point : stop introducing useless characters like ,i don't care who Henry is, i can't remember his last name. Same with the three-headed guy. No purpose ( also i don't like the added adjectives to describe the bodies of female characters, especially during action)

I'm on my way to read the second one, to see if it got better( also because no matter the quality, I'm so monster high obsessed i take what I can😭)

[shadow-von-vamp]

i found one of the ghoulfriends forever books while i was out getting ice cream

[thuganomxcs]

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After hugging Whisp through Lagoona's body, assuring her that they were alright, Gigi didn't hesitate finding Yusuke before colliding in his arms being still. It was a scary day for all ghost and spirit monsters who were suddenly kidnapped from their school and held hostage at Haunted High. And unfortunately, djinn counted as spirits so Gigi was gone for hours. It if wasn't for their ghoulfriends, they would still be trapped. They stayed under Yusuke's arms for a while to take in the comfort before looking up to him. The whole time fighting to get back, Gigi kept thinking about the demon the whole time, worried of never being able to see him again. They never wanted to feel that way EVER again...       ❝ So... what happens now? ❞

He was..searching for her EVERYWHERE around the school, figures the one day he decided to skip this damn Haunted Mansion themed highschool something like this would happen. A situation where his presence alone would have kept her safe. Whether it were monster jocks from grades above his own or equal, Yusuke made quick work of every one of them hoping he’d get some answers out of them. Various room within the school were left a mess, chairs and desks were broken and the walls all cracked because of the bodies Yusuke had thrown against them

Although he was fortunate enough that Gigi’s ragtag group of eccentric friends were there to save the day as if lie was just another AFTERNOON special. He parts his lips to speak up but Gigi had already wrapped their arms around his frame. Their grip rather tight which showcased the fear they must have held..but what in the hell was brave enough to take them anyway?? Hopefully after today Yusuke would have somewhat of a REPUTATION in the school..if anything it might keep Gigi safe if they were constantly seen around him.

But for now he was just happy to have her here again. ❝  𝐈 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.   ❞  Back to their home, back where it’s safe and from there he’d forever keep her safe. “I promise I’m not gonna let anythin’ like that happen again Gee.” It was scary to think..that he would never see her again. “Think’ I lost you hurt too much.”