After I have received más issues of that comic book series, I decided to write this articulo to tell tu about my opinion on that series. I remember discovering this series back when I was a child when I used to have a few of copies of a magazine that contained various comic book stories from various children's media including Maya the Bee as one of them and I have managed to read only a few stories of that series which I was disappointed that I didn't get to see más of this version as many years have passed, but after I officially became a Maya the Bee fan in late 2020, I bought my first copies of the earliest issues of the magazine which all of them were in my native language and I read all of them and I enjoyed them a lot. Many of these stories that I have read were so fun that I ended up to enjoy them más than disney comics because of how expressive the characters were and how many comical/funny moments were featured in them. Now as for the disney comics, I used to be obsessed with them since I was a child along with other comics from other cartoon franchises such as Little Lulu, Popeye, Looney Tunes, Garfield, Woody Woodpecker, Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones which I also enjoyed them, but I was más into disney comics myself. I have read stories from almost all of the disney comics universes, not just the Mickey ratón and Donald Duck/Uncle Scrooge ones, but also the ones featuring Chip 'n' Dale, Bambi, Seven Dwarfs, Big Bad Wolf, Li'l Wolf, Three Little Pigs, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Bear, Jiminy Cricket, Scamp, Little Hiawatha and Bucky Bug. While I enjoyed disney comics overall, but after looking back at them, I found almost all of them to be "bland" 'cause of the storylines being not en general, general that well-written (not including the ones por Floyd Gottfredson, Carl Barks and Don Rosa as those were actually very well-written) o the lack of mostrando other feelings besides happiness, sadness, anger and fear as I rarely have found disney stories that shows some characters crying for example which comparing the facial expressions from disney comics to the one from the Bastei Maya the Bee comics, the characters in the Maya the Bee comics are más expressive and have más of personalities in them which is something that I wish for disney comics to have más of that, but the most expressive disney comics that I have read were mostly the pato comics por Don Rosa as he made a great job at making the characters más expressive, even though, he started working on disney comics because of Carl Barks who was known to have created the pato universe/Duckburg and the characters Scrooge McDuck, giroscopio, giro, girocompás Gearloose, Magica De Spell, Gladstone vistazo, gander and the beagle Boys which if it weren't for him, he wouldn't work on disney comics at all. Now let's go back to talk about the Maya the Bee comics. After I got my first issues, I started collecting más of them starting from January 2021 where I got my first German issue that was the 58th one which was the one where I have learned más about the existence of the queen avispa and her avispa guards which I first saw them in the game "Garden Adventures" before I found out that they existed in this comic book series and seen Schimmy the silverfish for the first time while lectura the story as I didn't knew that he actually existed as a Maya the Bee character as I never saw him appearing in other Maya the Bee related media besides the comics before. For other characters, Paul the ant was featured in as an ant soldier in the oldest stories, but in the later/newer stories, he became an ant general just like in the Studio 100 series and merchandise related to the Nippon animación series, the queen bee plays más of a major role than she had in the Nippon animación series, other characters who never appeared in the Nippon animación series such as the colonel bee, Oscar the earwig, the queen avispa and her avispa guards were featured as characters in this series. The series itself is más light-hearted comparing to the Nippon animación series, but some of dark themes were presented in it such as Schnuck the dragonfly getting eaten por a pescado and the ants of the amazonian tribe have attacked the ants from Paul's tribe to take their trono which many of them were badly injured as their helmets and their bodies were "torn-off" before Maya have managed to fool the amazonian queen ant por setting a trap with the help of an antlion who ended up fallen herself into the trap which this caused her to give the crown that she have stolen from the queen ant of Paul's tribe back to Maya and after that, the good queen ant got her crown back from Maya and the amazonian ant tribe were defeated. Well, that story about the amazonian ant tribe was one of the "darkest" stories that I have read from that series, not only how the good ants were attacked por the amazonian ants, but also because of the sad moments where Maya felt sorry about the good queen ant who also was suffered por the attack that she ended up crying más than once before she found the right solution to defeat the amazonian ant tribe. So yes, this series does have a few dark themes in it, but comparing to the Studio 100 series which is más light-hearted, it barely have any dark themes as the series itself was made to appeal to younger children, but it's still one of the most light-hearted series out of all other Maya the Bee related media. Overall, I enjoyed this series as much as both animated series por Nippon animación and Studio 100 despite of it being the más obscure one out all of them, but I hope this version gets más recognition in the future as más fans discovers about it and other stuff related to the Maya the Bee franchise.
