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Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes Volume One

WELCOME TO MAKE5WISHES.COM
Hana just doesn’t fit in. At school, she feels like the invisible girl. (“No. Not invisible. Being invisible would’ve been cool. I just wasn’t worth noticing.”) And at home, she avoids her parents’ arguments by retreating to her bedroom, where she spends hours online, playing the part of various cool, smart, sexy, and popular alteregos, and kicks back with her all-time idol and very best (though only in her imagination) friend, rebel rocker Avril Lavigne. One night she runs across a mysterious website called make5wishes.com. Somehow, she can’t click away–and before she knows it, she’s ordered a package guaranteed to make dreams come true. But will it end up being a Pandora’s box? It all depends on the lovable but wily demon inside. Is Hana sure she knows what she wants? And does she know that what you want can be very different from what you get?

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"A surprisingly profound animated manga fantasy. Whatever your thoughts on Lavigne, it's compelling reading." - The Gaurdian Unlimited

"Make 5 Wishes is a disturbingly well-constructed comic with a current spin on a classic story, the Monkey's Paw specifically. Powerful metaphors and fascinating character gradations make "Make 5 Wishes" by far the most compelling work that grafts a popular name from North American media onto the style of anime or manga." - Aint It Cool News

"In a way, it's almost disturbing how close to home it hits on issues of modern youth: alienation, identity, celebrity worship and screwing around on the internet (aren't we all too familiar with that one)."
- Anime News Network

"As an accomplished and well-constructed story, Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes may wind up being the most attractive silk purse woven from a sow's ear in 2007."

"Dysart and d'Errico's story works because they have a fairly keen understanding both of the adult world's various complications and the inability of most teenagers to comprehend them."

"Camilla d'Errico's art, a style somewhere between manga standard and Sam Kieth's bittersweet cartoon linework creates a world that looks eerily like Margaret Keane characters trapped in an Ingmar Bergman film."

- The Comics Journal