Continuing with Season 2 of the Winx Club comics and we’re outside of the show territory completely at the moment. The last comic was focused on the Shaab Stone (and how the mission went horribly wrong) so hopefully this concludes in a good story arc for our characters.
Treason
Treason starts off straight after the previous comic, The Shaab Stone, and the ramifications of what happened. It focuses on Helia for once, who gets into fights and even gets expelled (which is a big deal for all the fairies and specialists!).
On top of Helia, there’s a stronger focus on other characters outside of the core. Characters like Griffin, Faragonda and Saladin are shown planning, exactly how they would’ve done during their Company of Light days. There’s also political issues at hand, and this makes the comic tackle more adult issues that I enjoyed.
Speaking of adult issues, Bloom calls Belizaruis a dealer who wants to conduct his dealings, not sure if this means drug dealer or just a mis-translation of dodgy businessman. There’s a few other bad translations/plot inconsistencies where Saladin is called the headmaster of Cloud Tower which is incorrect.
Whilst the overall story is about the Shaab stone and the specialists working to get it back, there’s a strong story between Flora and Helia. As one of the more grounded relationships from the series, I liked this added backstory and building up their trust in one another.
Treason also has a quick throw-away reference to possibly Lord of the Rings, where they talk about throwing an powerful artefact into Flame Mountain to get rid of it.
As it’s name suggests, Return of the Trix Girls sees the Trix return to Cloud Tower and the society on Magix. Due to memory loss spell gone wrong in the previous comics though, they have no idea that they’d tried taking over and they don’t know the Winx Club.
The fairies have a hard time getting over letting the Trix be part of an event as of course they still remember the horrible things they did. But this in turn is what brings negative attention from the Trix, as they think (correctly) that they’re gossiping about them.
I liked that we saw this dynamic because arguably the Winx did give cause for the Trix to be hostile. If someone was whispering behind my back I’d probably not like them either.
What I didn’t like was the inclusion of Lucy as they make her be the bad guy. She’s wants to join the Trix, which matches the show, but her going to them after they’ve tried taking over feels like a backtrack to her development.
There’s also a couple of scenes which are unique to the series. The specialists were in fact a band first in the comics (and apparently pretty good). And the Trix do sort of transform into their witchier outfits.
Return of the Trix Girls
Love Potion
Love Potion is a high school drama filled comic, which is always unfortunate as these always feel like filler episodes. Shilly decides she loves Brandon, and decides to go after him which is strange because she knew when she first met him that he was dating Stella.
Shilly being a witch shows a conflict between fairies and witches, without it being save the world level risk. At the end, there’s even a moment that shows understanding and friendship which was a good development.
Icy plays head mean girl as she purposely trys to stir the drama up. I loved seeing her interact with someone both not and enemy or her sisters as she felt more normal. Still a bit snappy and conniving, but you can tell why her and the Trix were head of the school in the first season.
Whilst this comic was filler and didn’t really add much to the world there’s great artwork throughout. I especially loved seeing more of Stella in this style and quality.
This season we’ve seen a Flora and Helia story, a Stella and Brandon story and next up is Tecna and Timmy. Except this comic is ret-conned in the series as Tecna isn’t actually the princess of Zenith.
The comic is about how Tecna is torn between her father asking a computer who her future husband should be, and her feelings for Timmy. For the character who’s usually very focused on tech and logic, she questions her choices a lot and overcomes this too (for the most part).
I would have liked Aisha to be a bigger part of this comic. As a princess who’s upbringing is leading to an arranged marriage, she’d be a great asset to help Tecna. At first she wasn’t even present in the comic until after they go meet with the specialists either.
It also shows another potential assasination attempt which is comic-only. They really love to bring on board the worries that surround royalty in the comics more than the show.
Overall it focuses on why Timmy is a good match, and shows that they’re one of the best couples in the series for a reason.
Logic and Love
The Seed of Disagreement
So I have to start off with “Sometimes growing up is tiring” is a whole mood. Bloom gets it.
The disagreement plant, not creatively named but it is a creative concept to bring to the world. The Seed of Disagreement brings anger and agitation to all those that come close to it, and was mostly exterminated for that reason.
With the seed coming to Magix, even the fairies can’t help stop it. So that’s when the Pixies are called in as they won’t be as affected. I liked that the Pixies were useful again as they get forgotten about quickly in the show.
The story isn’t particularly interesting though, and it feels like another filler comic. We don’t fully understand why the seed shows up, plus why the Trix know about it or why they want to get it either.
Apart from Treason, these comics feel very filler-like and focus mainly on the school element of their lives, including the relationships, friendships and rivalrys that go along with it.
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