Ghosts of geekdom past.
Alright. I'll grant that I had the music blaring to levels that normal humans can not generally tolerate. And I'll grant that the last conversation I had with Val was the one in which I explained that some drunk motherfucker threatened to kill me while I was walking to the super market (bunch of savages in this town). And sure, she tried to call me repeatedly for about an hour. But geeze, let's not over-react eh? Actually, now that I think about it -- I suppose over-reacting would be exactly my response if the situation were reversed. *shrug*
I don't suppose anyone else has really noticed, but these guys
have recently struck some deal with Hasbro/Wizards to comicize the most popular D&D novels from years long past. Namely, the Dragonlance and the Drizzt books. As much as I've downloaded all of the issues that are currently available for both of these series I have yet to actually do anything more than quickly page through the first issue of each to get a sense for how it looked. I can't say anything specific about the art, which is both a good and a bad thing. It doesn't seem ground breaking or mind-numbing in it's quality, nor is it offensive or horrendous in it's craptacularity. In other words, I can't judge these books based solely on their art. It's going to have to come down to how well they're translated from the books. Notice, I was quite careful in how I framed that last sentance. See, I'll admit that back in the day I did the fanboy funky-chicken over both of these series. For a time, I lived a breated Krynn and everything about Dragonlance. I practically lived there for a whole summer in the early nineties. Later, I had a somewhat more tame relationship with the Drizzt series, but I was still very much a fan. Years later, however, I went back and re-read all of the Dragonlance Chronicles. What a mistake. Everything good I'd remembered about those books vaporized from my memory as my jaded, matured and (I like to believe) more sophisticated mind tore into the childish and horribly written novels without mercy. There
was nothing good about the novels and, upon reflection, it seemed as though my own over-active young teenaged mind had taken the words that Weis and Hickman had shamefully strung together and filled in the blanks to create a world that was probably more in my head and only loosely based on ideas and concepts that they'd tossed out. With Salvatore and the Drizzt series, it was a little different but no less eye-opening. With him, I thought I'd give one of his new novels a try and see if the old magic might still be there. It wasn't. Just crap. Horrible, disappointing crap.
But now we have comics which are based on those novels. If they are translated faithfully, then I have no doubt that I'll be as dissapointed with them as I was with my revisits. If I'm lucky, someone somewhere read those old books and said "wtf? we need to re-write this garbage or we'll be the laughing stock of the comic and every other industry" and then proceeded to do just that.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
I don't suppose anyone else has really noticed, but these guys
have recently struck some deal with Hasbro/Wizards to comicize the most popular D&D novels from years long past. Namely, the Dragonlance and the Drizzt books. As much as I've downloaded all of the issues that are currently available for both of these series I have yet to actually do anything more than quickly page through the first issue of each to get a sense for how it looked. I can't say anything specific about the art, which is both a good and a bad thing. It doesn't seem ground breaking or mind-numbing in it's quality, nor is it offensive or horrendous in it's craptacularity. In other words, I can't judge these books based solely on their art. It's going to have to come down to how well they're translated from the books. Notice, I was quite careful in how I framed that last sentance. See, I'll admit that back in the day I did the fanboy funky-chicken over both of these series. For a time, I lived a breated Krynn and everything about Dragonlance. I practically lived there for a whole summer in the early nineties. Later, I had a somewhat more tame relationship with the Drizzt series, but I was still very much a fan. Years later, however, I went back and re-read all of the Dragonlance Chronicles. What a mistake. Everything good I'd remembered about those books vaporized from my memory as my jaded, matured and (I like to believe) more sophisticated mind tore into the childish and horribly written novels without mercy. There
was nothing good about the novels and, upon reflection, it seemed as though my own over-active young teenaged mind had taken the words that Weis and Hickman had shamefully strung together and filled in the blanks to create a world that was probably more in my head and only loosely based on ideas and concepts that they'd tossed out. With Salvatore and the Drizzt series, it was a little different but no less eye-opening. With him, I thought I'd give one of his new novels a try and see if the old magic might still be there. It wasn't. Just crap. Horrible, disappointing crap.
But now we have comics which are based on those novels. If they are translated faithfully, then I have no doubt that I'll be as dissapointed with them as I was with my revisits. If I'm lucky, someone somewhere read those old books and said "wtf? we need to re-write this garbage or we'll be the laughing stock of the comic and every other industry" and then proceeded to do just that.
Keeping my fingers crossed.