Moomin comics!
Moomin, Book III, by Tove Jansson is lovely.
It has the jungle that takes over the Moominhouse in Finn Family Moomintroll, and the trip to Lonely Island from Moominpappa at Sea. And I finally know where she got the thing with the seahorse-vamp in Moominpappa at Sea from! It's always struck me as very odd that the sexy glamour-figure in that book is such a different species from Moomintroll. I think it works, partly because she's so obviously impossible as an actual lover, but I could never imagine where Jannson had got the idea from. I am sad to see the wise seahorse turn into a shallow giggler, but I do like the giggler's role in the novel, and using Little My as the source of wisdom there does work fantastically.
There's also a highly forgettable, if mildly amusing, story about a Martian with an invisibility ray.
The lighthouse-keeper story that ends up in Moominpappa at Sea is wonderful in this version. In the book, I really don't sympathise much with Moominpappa, but this version really focuses on him, and it's got a lot in common with the short story in which he sails off with the Hattifatteners to live their wild, free life with them. The one thing that story has lacked for me is a clear statement of what Moominpappa might do instead of running away, since even though it's made clear that he loves his drawing-room lifestyle, it can't fully satisfy him, or why did he run away in the first place? The solution proposed by the end of this storyline works really well for me, since it's a twist on the lifestyle he has at the start, and it clearly shows how he got to the start of The Exploits of Moominpappa.
It has the jungle that takes over the Moominhouse in Finn Family Moomintroll, and the trip to Lonely Island from Moominpappa at Sea. And I finally know where she got the thing with the seahorse-vamp in Moominpappa at Sea from! It's always struck me as very odd that the sexy glamour-figure in that book is such a different species from Moomintroll. I think it works, partly because she's so obviously impossible as an actual lover, but I could never imagine where Jannson had got the idea from. I am sad to see the wise seahorse turn into a shallow giggler, but I do like the giggler's role in the novel, and using Little My as the source of wisdom there does work fantastically.
There's also a highly forgettable, if mildly amusing, story about a Martian with an invisibility ray.
The lighthouse-keeper story that ends up in Moominpappa at Sea is wonderful in this version. In the book, I really don't sympathise much with Moominpappa, but this version really focuses on him, and it's got a lot in common with the short story in which he sails off with the Hattifatteners to live their wild, free life with them. The one thing that story has lacked for me is a clear statement of what Moominpappa might do instead of running away, since even though it's made clear that he loves his drawing-room lifestyle, it can't fully satisfy him, or why did he run away in the first place? The solution proposed by the end of this storyline works really well for me, since it's a twist on the lifestyle he has at the start, and it clearly shows how he got to the start of The Exploits of Moominpappa.