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Surgoshan:
I just read the GN adaptation of Gaiman's Neverwhere. It was... okay. I'm ambivalent about it and will probably have to reread both it and the novel to fully flesh out my impression. It's an incredibly quick read, or maybe I just read it to fast and that's the problem I had with it. I understand that the adaptationist had to cut a lot and change a few things, but the story just advanced far too quickly. By putting it all into a visual medium like that, it cut out the majority of the strangeness because it no longer had to be filtered through our own perceptions and preconceptions. And by making it so short, there was pretty much no time to see Dick's reaction to anything.
0bsessions:
Honestly, you shouldn't have even bothered. Novel/movie/TV adaptations into comic book format are pretty much universally terrible. I don't think I've ever read a single good one.
Surgoshan:
Well, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has made a successful transition, though not adaptation, to the GN format.
0bsessions:
Yeah, pretty different, though. The Transformers comic is allegedly pretty good and even Gargoyles had a brief, but successful, run as a comic. Direct adaptations pretty much invariably fall flat, though.
Blue Kitty:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 30 Dec 2008, 22:22 ---It's definitely a step up form Army@Love in that aspect, though. Jesus Christ, what an atrocious mess that is.
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Oh god, I didn't know what I was going into. I read through the first TPB and thought it was pretty good, then I downloaded the rest and started to freak out. Why did it turn into some sort of cosmic fuckfest to save the universe?
Oh, one thing with the symbiotes from Spider-man: anything with Venom or Carnage is terrible, but I found that I enjoyed the recent Toxin TPB and wish they would do more with him, though I doubt anything will thanks to OMD.
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