I recently got wrapped up in the Steven Universe animated series and picked this up from the library to give me a little fix between binges. It starts out okay, wondering why Steven doesn't go to school and what happens when he gives it a try. But the story just falls apart in the end.

The dialogue is occasionally awkward, and the text is poorly proofread. The art at least does a fair enough job of catching the likenesses.

This was disappointing, but I'm jonesing pretty hard, so I'm going to try some of the other Steven Universe graphic novels and hope they're better. ( )

Cute, but badly punctuated.
(Also, I still love Connie, but you shouldn't eat in the library!) ( )

This volume felt exactly like watching a Steven Universe episode (only a little longer, probably). It had the same tone, the same humor, the same unique dialogue, even the same wacky kind of story. I really enjoyed it!

In this volume, Steven is bored during the day and heads to school with Connie as a show and tell subject. But everything makes fun of him and doesn't believe his story about being a gem. When Steven brings the wrong thing in the next day for show and tell, and it gets lose and threatens the school, the gems have to come save him (and then it's hard for the school to not believe). There are a lot of other smaller issues at play like how smart Steven is and Connie earning respect of her classmates. So it was a fun read and one with a lot of feeling hidden in it as well. ( )