Once Bitten, Twice Dead

2026 · 05 · 21

This book is so strange. It’s a new generation 1 monster high book that seemingly has no regard for what fans deem important. Which is kind of interesting to me, it seems intentional I think. The “deadication” is: To the OG Fandom— Welcome back to school. Which to me just sounds like the author saying “you want g1? fine, here, take it.” and then boiling lagoona, which burns her skin pink. Which plainly seems like a reference to g3 lagoona’s skin tone, but I don’t know what they were meaning by this lol. Oh my god and they got rid of Clawd completely which also pissed people off, but they put a human character in his place kind of. His name is Poe which is interesting because it calls to mind Edgar Allen Poe, which the book is aware of, but the character is distinctly not like his namesake at all. This makes sense since he’s a person, but compared to the monsters who are all designed from their namesakes, it’s an interesting parallel. I think I liked this book overall, though I haven’t finished thinking about it. I’m curious to see how this version of g1’s story continues through the comics.