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Romeo and Smurfette
The poignant tale of the Smurfs' love for the beautiful Smurfette--and her final choice--highlights a collection of Smurf stories
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
45 pages, Paperback
First published January 12, 1983
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Peyo
1,209 books145 followersPierre Culliford, known as Peyo, was a Belgian comics artist, perhaps best known for the creation of The Smurfs comic strip.
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February 25, 2021
I found this hiding in a bunch of old Asterix books sent over from my husband's father's home. I looked it up and realised that the Smurf comics are of Belgian origin. With my love for Tintin, I thought these should have some merit. The original books are in French and the smurfs are known as 'les schtroumpfs'. I believe there is also a movie and a cartoon based on these books.
I didn't really see the point of these stories. Romeo and Smurfette has a bunch of small stories, in which there are a bunch of male creatures called smurfs who are basically all drooling over a single female one known as the smurfette. There was just one story of some merit, in which one of the smurfs goes out to see the world and gets captured by an evil wizard.
I have questions, though! Who are these creatures? Why is there only one papa smurf? Is he father to the numerous smurfs? How do these smurfs reproduce, since there don't appear to be any other females around (and there are a LOT of smurfs!)? Why is there only one smurfette? Why are both papa and youngsters drooling over her (this gets a little disgusting)? Where are the other older smurfs? I am extremely confused with this whole concept of the smurf world.
The comic was also extremely annoying to read. Every verb was "to smurf" and almost every noun was smurf. There were even a few smurf adjectives. What might have been a clever device just got murdered through overuse. All the smurfs were rather redundant and indistinguishable from each other in any way. This is going on the donate pile, for sure!
I didn't really see the point of these stories. Romeo and Smurfette has a bunch of small stories, in which there are a bunch of male creatures called smurfs who are basically all drooling over a single female one known as the smurfette. There was just one story of some merit, in which one of the smurfs goes out to see the world and gets captured by an evil wizard.
I have questions, though! Who are these creatures? Why is there only one papa smurf? Is he father to the numerous smurfs? How do these smurfs reproduce, since there don't appear to be any other females around (and there are a LOT of smurfs!)? Why is there only one smurfette? Why are both papa and youngsters drooling over her (this gets a little disgusting)? Where are the other older smurfs? I am extremely confused with this whole concept of the smurf world.
The comic was also extremely annoying to read. Every verb was "to smurf" and almost every noun was smurf. There were even a few smurf adjectives. What might have been a clever device just got murdered through overuse. All the smurfs were rather redundant and indistinguishable from each other in any way. This is going on the donate pile, for sure!
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