According to Reuters on January 4th, the publisher TidalWave is introducing a 22-page comic book featuring BTS as the latest addition to the ‘FAME’ series.
The ‘FAME’ series is a collection of comics that introduces the life stories of celebrities such as singers, actors, and sports stars. Previously, ‘FAME’ featured Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, 50 Cent, Jennifer Lawrence, and David Beckham.
‘FAME: BTS,’ depicts BTS’s journey since their debut in 2013, producing numerous hit songs and engaging in social contributions, growing into a global pop star.
Additionally, the comic also portrays BTS members’ enlistment process starting with Jin in 2022, showing their transformation from K-pop idols to military soldiers.
‘FAME: BTS’ is produced in both paper and digital formats and is set to be officially released on January 10th.
Following the announcement of ‘FAME: BTS’ and the release of its two previews, netizens have expressed their disappointment with the art style, claiming the drawings look nothing like BTS members.
On theqoo, Korean netizens left comments:
- Don’t do this. Who asked for this?
- There are plenty of talented artists in the US who can draw comics well, why…
- The drawing styles are too different; what’s the real one… The 2nd one is somewhat better, but the problem is whether it’s 1 or 2, if they don’t mention who is who, I don’t know….
- I want to buy it, but the members’ faces…
- They all look the same… If the names weren’t written, I would have thought they were all the same character
- What’s with the drawing style?
- The drawing is not even half of BTS fan art level
- Not knowing who is who is one thing, but the characters have zero individuality
- Is this even okay? Not only is the drawing style not great, but the author can use BTS’ images as they please or draw them incorrectly
- The drawing looks weird
- Who are they? Show some effort to draw BTS somewhat similarly
