YMMV / Mélusine

• Accidental Innuendo: One of Mélusine's friends is named Krapella. For obvious reasons, her name was changed to Gothika when the comic was translated in English.
• Awesome Art: The comic series is really expressive and pleasant to look at, providing colorful characters and interesting designs for monsters. Even those who have stopped reading the series after following a Darker and Edgier path, have nothing to say against its art style.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Considering that the series' humor heavily relies on Black Comedy, it was bound to have moments like this.
  • The whole story "Sang pour sang" where a visiting vampire lord is accidentally killed and resurrected, only to be accidentally killed again. Over. And. Over. Bloody hilarious.
  • In "The Ballet of the Broomsticks", Mélusine visits a cliff that's said to be cursed after a princess threw herself to the sea when her father hanged her lover. What follows is a series of gags where Mélusine tries (unsuccessfully) to save the pour unfortunate souls who were hit by the curse from commiting suicide. After many failed attempts, she finally manages to save one, only for the ghosts of the previous victims to congratulate her sarcastically, which leads to the one and only saved victim to fall to his death and join the other ghosts. Deadly hilarious.
• Fan Discontinuity: Ever since Mélusine co-creator Gilson left, the series has been rocked with controversies and some fans prefer to ignore any work made by Clark alone. The major points of contentious are:
  • Changing the format from a one-page gag to a full album-length story.
  • Less focus on comedy.
  • Mélusine losing her magical powers and needing to have sex to regain them.
  • Cancrelune committing suicide and ending-up in Hell.
• Fridge Brilliance: Of course and the 13th album would be about superstitions.
• Fridge Horror: Mélusine' mother, Sigrid, is a fairy and has been disguising herself as a witch for years so her marriage with Kaspar, a witch, could work. When she divorced him on suspicion of an affair, she returns to fairyland with her fairy attire, but she's missing her fairy wings. Did she chop them off? Brrr...
• The Scrappy: Malicella was instantly disliked upon being introduced, due to her bratty and obnoxious personality and all in all, having very few funny or redeeming moments.
• Tear Jerker: Cancrelune committed suicide out of guilt for endangering her best friend Mélusine. When Mélusine finds her body, there's nothing but silence and she breaks down in tears. Mélusine is then determined to bring back her friend from Hell no matter what. After a long journey filled with dangers, Mélusine finally finds Cancrelune's soul. However, Cancrelune has accepted her fate in Hell and tells Mélusine she is the best and Only Friend she ever had. After bidding her a final farewell, she slips into darkness, never to be seeing ever again. Mélusine returns to the surface completely broken.
• Values Dissonance: The series averts the Nipple and Dimed trope regarding its designs of female characters. This isn't rare to see in a Franco-Belgian comic, even one aiming at kids, but it raises eyebrows in America.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The series is primarily targeted towards children, but its heavy use of Black Comedy, suffering, blood and the main character getting in a lot of fanservice-y moments makes this choice kinda questionable.

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