#animorphs comics

You are right!  I know a couple of people mentioned the fear that the morphing was gonna be sanitized and/or prettified and/or made into magical girl transformations.  But it was definitely NOT pretty.

[Image ID: Two panels from the comic of The Invasion.  Both show Tobias transforming from a grey-striped cat to a blond human in the background while Jake, a red-haired light-skinned human, turns away in the foreground.  The top panel has the sound effects “crack” and “snap” next to Tobias as Jake’s speech bubble says “You say it doesn’t hurt to morph...”  The bottom panel has the sound effects “crack” and “crunch” next to Tobias as Jake’s speech bubble says, “but it sounds awful.”]

Most looking forward to: the final battle from #34.  I have a little bit of trepidation about how the art will or will not convey Aldrea ghost-possessing Cassie, but that battle has such cool visuals that I want to see them drawn.  Not only do we have the super-cool Yellowstone-meets-Appalachia description of the Hork-Bajir Homeworld, but that battle sequence is one of the coolest.  Jake and Rachel are in the yeerk pool as sharks, Ax and Tobias are playing keep-away with armies of controllers as andalites, Marco’s using gorilla morph to hack Aldrea’s weapons cache, Toby’s waiting in the trees to rain hell from above.  And the whole time, Cassie’s jumping out of the sky as a bird while trying to become a whale with little or no human-lag in between, with the goal of emptying out an entire yeerk pool when she lands.  With the right handling, that might be the coolest scene to draw of the entire series.  And it’d be one that specifically translates well to comics, not to a movie or show.