Mas allá del jardín Volumen Dos

Over the Garden Wall (Collection) #2

by Pat McHale, Danielle Burgos, Jim Campbell

Regresa a Lo desconocido con estas nuevas aventuras basadas en la premiada miniserie de Cartoon Network, Más allá del jardín. Greg vuelve a los oscuros bosques con su fiel compañero, Jason Funderburker, mientras intentan ¡atrapar a un ladrón! Anna, la hija del leñador, se queda sola mientras la Bestia engaña a su padre.

Aprende a sobrevivir sola y no se deja capturar por la criatura más oscura del bosque. Con nuevos y extraños lugares, y amigos más extraños aún, estos héroes tendrán que hacer uso de su ingenio en Lo desconocido.

El dibujante de Más allá del jardín Jim Campbell escribe e ilustra las disparatadas aventuras de Greg. Amalia Levari escribe el fatídico cuento de Anna con el arte de la talentosa Cara McGee (Clarence). Estad alerta mientras recorréis estos bosques, no os salgáis del camino y jamás vaguéis sin rumbo… Podría haber algo siniestro esperándoos.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Middle Grade, Graphic Novels Comics, Humor, Childrens

112 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 2017

About the author

Patrick 'Pat' McHale is a writer, storyboard artist, animator, and independent filmmaker, best known for being a former writer and creative director on the animated series Adventure Time for Cartoon Network, which he contributed to during its first five seasons. McHale also created the mini-series Over the Garden Wall.

Reviews

[Melki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sheesh! This one drops THREE WHOLE STARS from the first volume's stellar rating.

The first two tales, featuring Greg and Wirt spinning Rashomon, and offering up two versions of the Hunt for the Hero Frog, are fine. Greg's story is wildly imaginative with candy colors and wacky creatures. Wirt relates a much darker version featuring vengeful ghosts, and nasty, bitey wildlife. Sadly, it all concludes with a To Be Continued.



The last story is just plain awful, all about the schoolhouse critters and their lame teacher. Filled with fart jokes, and relaying the message that countless children's books have done better - everyone has a special purpose, and even a misfit can wind up saving the day - this forgettable tale was a waste of paper.

Sigh.

Hope volume three is an improvement.

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first half of the book does a good job of capturing the tone and spirit of the original cartoon with half-brothers Greg and Wirt each offering their differing versions of events from the same odd evening.

But then the second half of the book goes off the rails as we are subjected to a story set in the schoolhouse from the "Schooltown Follies" episode. No Greg, no Wirt, no frog or Beatrice even. Instead, we are introduced to Pooree the Elephant, the clumsy new transfer student. Horribly drawn, horribly written, and, worst of all, horribly colored in a manner that completely clashes with the palette of the series. What were the editors thinking?

[Stay Fetters · Rating 2 out of 5]

"That was weird. It’s ok. He had good teeth. You can trust a bird with good teeth."

This was my least favorite out of all the ones I’ve read so far. Even the Greg and Wirt story was a tad bit boring. This one was so unimaginative that I couldn’t even finish it. I’m hoping the next volume is better.

[☾❀Apple✩ Blossom⋆｡˚ · Rating 3 out of 5]

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

*** This review contains potential spoilers ***

Rating: 🌟🌟 (2/5 stars).

Haha, comic book day was my greatest weakness when I wanted to have all the free comics but that bookstore only had these comics (over the garden wall comics) in their sale section and I caved. I really thought I was going to like them since I really like the animated show but oh my god I was so so wrong.

But hey at least there was way more Wirt in this than the previous installment so that already made it better than volume one. I still think the plot is mediocre in these comics, like the tv series it's simply way better and waaaay superior than these halfbaked plots. I did think the ghost lady was cool but that's probably because I'm such a sucker for ghosts & ghost stories. Also, don't even get me started on the second story & third story in this comic. Like not only was the art not good since the colors were waaaay too vibrant but not in a good way like for example the wicked + the divine comics do. Besides, those two stories were simply just so bad... really bad.... so bad...

I sincerely hope the next volume, volume 3, will be better. That's the last one I own but like if that's just as bad as the other two then I'm so going to drop reading this series since I'm really not liking them and reading something I hate/severely dislike seems pointless & a waste of my time.

[A Fan of Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

A solid second volume.

This volume was split like the first; half of it being about the boys, the other half a short story about the Unknown. The first story was just a continuation from the first volume, Wirt and Greg are still out looking for the hero frog! Only this time the brothers are separated and trying to find each other again. I really liked the way the art changed when it was just Wirt and I feel like it reflects his character. Unfortunately, it wasn't as funny as the first half was.
The second story is about the school for animals. A new student shows up, having a hard time adjusting and 3 of the animals hi-jacke a raft! It was okay. Funnier than the first story but not too much more exciting. The art for this half was also kinda weird. I do feel like it suits the school for animals however with the show being as beautiful as it is, I kinda want this to be better. It was too flat for me.
My main complaint, the books feel too short. I get through a volume and I want more but not out of excitement more just not feeling fulfilled. I think this series would be better read in a hardcover/oversized edition. Excited to learn more about the Unknown in the next vol.

[Lovely Day · Rating 3 out of 5]

3⭐️

Not as cute as book one as we get a fair amount of storytelling solely from Wirt and he’s definitely not the reason I like Over the Garden Wall. Over the Garden wall without Greg is just sad.

Also, I only read one of the two secondary comics as it was lackluster and and a bit blah

[Irene Lázaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

El segundo volumen de las novelas gráficas de Over the Garden Wall me ha gustado más que el primero. Las ilustraciones son más otoñales y me gusta que hay escenas mucho más oscuras y "halloweenescas" que en el primer tomo.

[Bridget · Rating 4 out of 5]

More of the same - adventures with Greg and Wirt, where Greg comes out no worse for the wear due to his positive way of seeing things and Wirt kind of getting the short stick of things. I liked the reintroduction of previous characters and the slight continuation of the overall mystery.

[Marina Vidal · Rating 2 out of 5]

2,5/5

El primer tomo me gustó mucho, pero las historias de este no me han acabado de convencer. El tono es el de la serie, y lo disfruto mucho, pero creo que le falta ritmo.

[Nathan Bartos · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the continuation of Greg and Wirt's search for the hero frog, but the stories with the school for animals, especially the final, longer one with the raft were...not for me.

[Bon · Rating 2 out of 5]

What even was the second half? I want Greg and Wirt lol.

[Miriam Blair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very nice.

[autumn°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ · Rating 2 out of 5]

well I guess nothing will ever be as good as the mini series :(

[Elisa H · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 I love the continuation of the story in the first half, but the second half is a side story about the school they visit in the second (or third?) episode and it just seems meh to me.

[Erica Robyn Metcalf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Even though I didn't love the first volume of this collection, I still decided to give Over the Garden Wall Vol. 2 a shot since I had already checked it out from the library.

My thoughts about this one are pretty similar to the first...

Hunt for Hero Frog- Greg/Wirt
This book picks up with the two boys in a tavern. Wirt says they had a rough night but Greg is all excited about it! We then see the story of the night told by Greg first, and it’s very bright and colorful. Then we see Wirt’s version which is much darker... When Wirt finishes his story, he realizes that Greg has left so he leaves to go find him. The rest of this story shows the situations that each boy got themselves into.

I enjoyed this one well enough, though I’m not sure I would pick up the next part of this series. It still just seemed too random...

Pooree The Elephant / The Raft
This one was a total miss for me, I really didn’t like it at all. I didn’t like the artwork, the storyline, the characters, the flow... I didn’t like any of it. I understand that there are lessons in there for the target audience, but I think they could have been done much better. I’m actually a bit grouchy that I wasted time pushing through this one.


My final thoughts:
Overall, this one was a miss as well. I enjoyed the first story well enough but didn't like the second one at all. I doubt I will continue on with this series.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Now having read two volumes of Over the Garden Wall I realize that it's also a bizarre maybe-for-kids, maybe-for-adults TV series on Cartoon Network. That explains a lot. Like why the first story involves a pair of brothers having, basically, a tooth decay-related nightmare. That story is funny, though, even if it totally dark and weird. The second story, about an elephant who doesn't fit in at his new school, is fundamentally dull, even if I were a member of the six-year-old target audience. Decent beginning, terrible ending for this volume.

[Greg Kerestan · Rating 2 out of 5]

More “Over the Garden Wall” is always a good thing. However, the first volumes, with their focus on the mystery of the Woodcutter’s daughter, struck a much better balance of silly versus serious. This set of issues is mostly Greg and a bit of Wirt, with far too many Miss Langtree’s School side stories.

I definitely get that old-school pastiche of children’s Americana is a big part of why this series exists, but I wish we could get more of the dark mysticism and less of the whimsy for the next installment.

[Dimitar Iliev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Greg me transmite tantísima ternura, que amor de muchacho de verdad. En este segundo tomo continúa la historia de la hija del leñador, muy interesante.

[Nannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

(4.5)

Oh, wow. I'm a little torn here. On one hand, the first half of this volume was so good (and frightening!), but on the other, I wasn't a huge fan of the second half, which was took a break from the main plot of finding the Hero Frog to just have fun with two short stories about Ms. Langtree's schoolhouse.

Book content warnings:
a really horrific scene in which a nightmarish horse actually eats Wirt, and Greg watches.

So here we have a bedraggled Wirt and Greg showing up at a tavern and both telling different versions of a same event. It's hilarious and gives insight to their characters. It's Wirt's version that has that truly horrific scene - where I literally stopped breathing for a few moments and just stared at the page, probably not comprehending it for a couple minutes. Like, was that real?? But then again, in this world, in these comics, we never really know what's real or not, and with this volume giving us even two different versions and presenting what's now unreliable narrators, we really don't know what's real or not! It's fascinating and will probably give me headaches if I think too hard about it, but it's also what I love about it.

The third part we encounter a new, mysterious character! In ... a bee mask ... hmmm? If Sara is going to be a character here I will die in the best way. I think it would be a fantastic move for the comics to include her. Especially since the show only had one episode that actually had her in it, and though I loved her, we only saw so little of her!

Anyway, so we had Wirt trying to catch up with Greg, who stumbled across a Very Fancy bird town and who accidentally became its judge for some Grand Social.

And then the rest is the little stories about Ms. Langtree's class. The art style is ... iffy, and the colors extremely garish. The first story is lovable, with a bullying story that made me teary-eyed at the end because the school adapted to the student, but I have to say it didn't really make up for the extremely strange art style and storyline that broke up the plot. It didn't seem to fit the rest of the graphic novel, and I ... guess I wasn't a huge fan. And I'm also not sure why there were two parts/short stories of Ms. Langtree's class. Put at the end like that, I felt so cut off and distant from the story. I wanted at least more of Greg and Wirt at the end!

At least there was the always-lovely cover gallery to make up for it.

[McKenzie Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

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Whenever I dive into an Over the Garden Wall, I'm prepared for the strange and unexpected (as much as one can be when venturing into the Unknown). It's part of what I love about the show and have loved about this graphic novel series. However, this one went in an entirely different direction.

The first half, "Hunt for Hero Frog", continues the quest from the first volume with Greg and Wirt looking for Hero Frog and ending up in mischief along the way. Danielle Burgos and Kiernan Sjursen-Lien did a good job of capturing the essence of the characters and I really enjoyed the split perspective with Greg telling his bright and colorful version then Wirt giving his much darker and spookier one. The story was entertaining and the whole thing felt on brand for the series.

The second half takes place at Miss Langtree's school and gives more detail on some of the animal students there. This is where the volume kind of fell apart for me. The illustration style and coloring are very different from the show and it really took me out of the world. The storytelling was more simplistic and not quite up to par with the Over the Garden Wall universe in my opinion.

While I enjoyed the message presented in "Pooree the Elephant" about the environment adapting to make room for everyone's unique needs and accepting others, I wasn't very invested in the unknown characters and the story was just okay. "The Raft" was fine but the story didn't really seem to go anywhere. Again, I wasn't invested in the characters and the art style just really threw me.

So while I did enjoy the first half, the second half really pulled the book down for me. I think the series can be successful in following side characters (like the Woodcutter's daughter in volume 1), but this one was just too different from the storytelling and art style that we all know and love. The second half may have been fine in a different context but it just wasn't satisfying in this volume.

Still a good volume and I liked continuing Greg and Wirt's adventures in the first half. I'll definitely still continue the series to see what happens next with them but this one has made me a bit wary about the tales included in the second half of each volume.

[Harris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I discuss all five volumes of the Over the Garden Wall Comic Series in the latest entry of my book review essays, Harris' Tome Corner, focusing on Halloween-friendly Kid Horror.

These volumes, featuring writing by Danielle Burgos and Kiernan Sjursen-Lien and illustrations by Jim Campbell and Cara McGee (telling Wirt's and Greg's stories respectively) stick closer to a more whimsical atmosphere and avoid the spookier aspects of OtGW for the most part, mostly following Greg’s quest for the Hero Frog after he wanders back into the Unknown in his dreams, and involves a lot of candy and funny animal people. It's all more Greg than Wirt, you could say. In fact, I think Greg’s story is far better fleshed out here than Wirt, who is more relegated to the b-plots.

This may fit with who these series are specifically aimed for, you know, grade-schoolers. Which is fine! In addition to the Hero Frog quest, each of the comics features a segment focusing on other characters, particularly Ms. Langtree’s classroom of adorable animal schoolchildren, written and illustrated in a kind of lush vintage ambiance by George Mager.

[Aleshia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first story in this volume was like the first story in volume 1-- similar in tone to the show and cute. I am still thinking the animated format works better for this story just because the characters are so well animated and acted, and that media is lost on paper obviously. It ends here with a to be continued.

The following story was about the small animal schoolhouse featured in the show. A new student, an elephant, joins, and he struggles fitting in because of his size. He's much bigger than the other animals and also an exotic animal rather than a forest animal (raccoon, rabbit, etc.) that all the other ones are. He breaks furniture and is picked on for being different. It's a typical story following the flow of being an outcast to the other animals learning to accept him. It's cute but not revolutionary.

The last story of this volume also followed the animals, and I really didn't care for this one. My tolerance for the random school animals ended after one story, and I wish it went back to the main story of Wirt and Greg. I read the first couple pages and then just looked at the pictures to the end instead. It wasn't interesting.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anna is out, which is alright, at least until they figure out what to do with her. Instead we have two issues that focus on Wirt and Greg, along with two about...the cast from "Schooltown Follies?"

Honestly, those issues would be fine (not good, but adequate) as their own little kiddie books, but yeah, "that raccoon who can't talk" doesn't exactly have a lot of characterization, and those issues feel pretty tenuously connected to OTGW. When I first saw them, the very childish art style made me think that we were gonna get a few pages framed as something that Greg was imagining, but...nope. That's the actual story. Pretty much the weakest choice you could make out of the whole OTGW cast.

The Wirt and Greg issues are quite good, however—I liked them more than any of the issues in Vol. 1. The Greg-centric stories remain silly, while the Wirt ones are nice and creepy, and includes a masked character whom I pretty sure will turn out to be Sara, of all people. So anyway: 1-2 stars for the bad issues, 4-5 for the others, balances out to 3.

[Martín D. Herrera Morris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Este volumen contiene los cómics #5 a #8 de la serie publicada en 2016. Dentro de esta serie de cómics, es mi favorito.

En el cómic #6 sucede algo muy interesante: Wirt y Greg relatan una aventura que tuvieron en un cementerio, pero cada uno desde su perspectiva diferente. La versión de Greg es toda linda y alegre (escrita y dibujada por Jim Campbell), y la versión de Wirt es toda obscura y tenebrosa (escrita por Sjarsen-Lien y dibujada por Cara McGee). En los siguientes cómics los hermanos tienen sus aventuras por separado (con los respectivos artistas a cargo).

Los cómics #5 y #8 son dos cuentitos que transcurren en la Escuela Para Animales, escritos y dibuajdos por George Mager, con un estilo MUY diferente a la serie animada. He leído reseñas que los desprecian, pero para mí no tienen nada de malo.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

Following the continued adventures of the wayward brothers questing for the "Hero Frog". Both recount meeting apparitions in totally different moods. We really see how Wirt is very melodramatic and overthinks himself, while Greg takes everything in a bright friendly way as a child. They become separated and find their own adventures on the way. The second half oddly returns to Miss Langtree's School of animal students and their lives. They gain a new elephantine exchange student and must rescue some of their troublemaking students playing hooky from school. Hope to see what the brother encounter in their later quests!

[Tatiana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume of Over the Garden Wall contains three stories: the continuation of Greg's search for Hero Frog, and the last two are about the potatoes and molasses schoolhouse from the TV show.

Greg's story is very funny because it shows how he sees the world, versus how Wirt sees it.

The last two stories with the schoolhouse are so vintage-looking I felt like I was at my grandparent's house reading old children's books. Limbs seem to be made of jell-O, and colors are limited but bright, with blue outlines. Both of the stories were very tender, but I was more engrossed by the vintage art style than the story.

Overall: entertaining and fun to look at.

[David Basora · Rating 3 out of 5]

These stories are so cute! I was disappointed that Anna's story was not continued in this volume, but we learned more of what adventures Greg and Wirt have been on. And the schoolhouse stories could probably be their own series of easy reader type books. I especially liked Pooree's tale.

I feel like these are all centered on differences of perspective. Seeing an adventure differ so much between Greg and Wirt's perspectives really reminds you that an understanding of reality or fact truly depends on the person providing the information. There is still truth, but sometimes there can be more gray to things than we like to admit. I find it intriguing that a story like this can do that.

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hunt for the Hero Frog: Greg

- Greg and Wirt relate their hunt for the Hero frog (see last collection). Greg tells a very fanciful version of events.

Hunt for the Hero Frog: Wirt

-New illustrator and slightly new style for Wirt’s version of things! Wirt tells the tale in a scarier way, but they still have to undergo a test of staying in one spot and talking to three visitors. Then the art reverts back as Greg gets separated and visits a town of very fancy birds.

Pooree the Elephant

- the animal school has a new elephant pupil. Art style is painfully pastel.

The Raft

- some of the kids skip school to go rafting.

[Zaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first part, dedicated to the boys, was nice. I enjoyed to discover the story through their very different points of view and with different art styles. We didn’t seem to come nearer to the hero frog, so maybe they’ll reach him in the last volume. The rest wasn’t my cup of tea, the story wasn’t exciting or fun and the art was more messy than pleasant to look at. I preferred the 2nd part of the 1st volume for sure.