Magician - Graphic Novel...

[woodsman]

Um, noticed this t'other day in waterstones and thought it might be a great gift to my wee cousin to get him into fantasy! Never really been one for graphic novels/comics etc but he seems to love them and I was wondering if anyone had any comments to offer on Magician. Quality of storyline (following the original!) and drawing etc.

Also have both sections been published?

Would be interesting to see what people's thoughts are, on the whole concept of 'transposing' Feist to the 'comic' form, as well.

 

[kaneda]

The only Feist book I have read is magician (finished reading it for the 2nd time today actually), so quite relevant.

Personally, I think it is genius to transpose magician to a graphic novel. I don't find Feist to write the most vivid dialogue (he tries, but in my opinion, fails the majority of the time). There are passages which require you to visualise what the character is seeing and he wasn't able to do that. Therefore, I think having a graphic novel would help Feist greatly.

 

[Fake Vencar]

I'm not so sure about this 'comic' book style Magician. Surely this obliterates the whole notion of fantasy when you cannot visualise your own perception of the place, person etc.

 

[kaneda]

I'm not so sure about this 'comic' book style Magician. Surely this obliterates the whole notion of fantasy when you cannot visualise your own perception of the place, person etc.

Not at all. Think about comics like watchman, camelot 3000 etc, they can be considered fantasy and are great in comic form. They would still be great if they weren't comics.

 

[Laerten]

I don't think I'd like it in comic form, I have my own ideas what characters look like (which are quite different to my brother-in-laws ideas of the same characters) and think if someone tried to show me it would detract from the story.