Ted Adams

I was prepared to love this adaptation of Wells's classic sci-fi body-horror, and the artwork and colouring is wonderful. However, trying to squeeze the body of Wells's novel into two standard comic books required too many amputations, and sadly the end result was poorly stitched together. Fully 50 pages of the collected hardback was flayed of its coloured-and-lettered hide and pared down to its pencilled bones, presented as an extra, juicy morsel, but couldn't bandage over the gutting of the narrative, and added to my relief at having borrowed not bought it. The final panel was a cut above, though, with a neat Darwinian allusion.
Low pick, but bears repeating that the artwork is fantastic.… (más)

This is just a gorgeous adaptation, with the bulk of the heavy lifting down to Gabriel Rodriguez's absolutely stunning artwork. Seriously, this guy just seems to get better and better.

The story is somewhat truncated from the original, and Rodriguez and Adams do take some liberties with the plot, but I can't say I didn't love the new ending, because it's well done, and the adjustment of the gender for Prendick was also handled very well.

If I have any complaint whatsoever, is I would have like to have seen it spread across a full three issues. I think the story could have had a bit more time to breathe.

But, overall, there's just so much to love here.… (más)

Full disclosure: I bought this for the Stephen King interview. At the time, however, I was a little dismayed at this quarterly so-called periodical was hardcover and $35. Regardless, I figured I'd like some of the other stuff in it.

Of the actual comics, I read only one, about a trip to the San Diego Con. It was okay. Not great, but okay.

I tried to read a couple of the articles, and just gave up on them.

I read the Alan Moore interview from 2006, and became convinced that Moore is purposefully fucking with the interviewer, or he's pretty much lost his marbles. Or both. For all of that, it was very mildly entertaining.

I read the King interview and it was mostly underwhelming in that King really didn't have a hell of a lot to do with any of the comics stuff that came out with his name on it, aside from assigning the rights and collecting a cheque. Wasn't worth the money.

The Douglas Adams and Berni Wrightson remembrances were okay. But again, only okay.

Finally there were two fiction pieces, one from Joe R. Lansdale and one from Paul Tremblay. Both were well-written, but ultimately nowhere near their best work, so again, I walked away feeling let down.

Bottom line, I didn't read about a third of it, and the rest was only passable. Not enough for me to cough up that kind of money for the next volume.… (más)