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Best simile I’ve seen in a while: “He’s as useless as a marzipan dildo.” (In fairness, my second thought was: mmm, marzipan. So maybe the insult didn’t have entirely the intended effect.)
Jim Butcher (writing), Adrian Syaf (art), Welcome to the Jungle: A Harry Dresden graphic novel! Harry looks narrower than I imagined him, consistent with Butcher’s insistence that he’s skinny, but just as tall. He investigates a suspicious murder at the zoo, leading to lots of pictures of gorillas and big cats, and magical fights of course. I don’t think Butcher has a firm handle on the form yet; Harry’s dialogue, which has to do a lot more of the work in this medium, relied too much on actual, obvious quotes from other tough guys of film and TV, and in any event the impact of a tough-guy line is just different when you’re looking at a picture of said tough guy. On the bright side, the women were fully dressed (except in that one concept drawing, and Harry was naked there).
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, The Middleman: The Trade Paperback Imperative and The Second Volume Inevitability: Enough to tide me over to the DVD release. A lot of the lovable elements of the show are in place here, as indicated by the subtitles. But: Wendy and Noser are white; Wendy and Lacey are constantly treated as cheesecake, making it painfully obvious just how much worse comics generally are at representing women because comics don’t have the constraints of even Hollywood’s version of realism to restrain the breast size and waist-to-hip ratio of the characters; and the comics put a lot more relative emphasis on the Middleman. Even though most of what happens in the first few episodes is in these volumes, what the show added was heavily devoted to Wendy and Lacey. The second volume actually has a “legends of the Middleman” chapter where there’s one Wendy-figure who distracts competing warriors by taking off all her clothes at the Middleman’s direction. Overall, the shared charms serve to emphasize how much better the show was (waaah!), though I’ve read that the third volume has some plot stuff in it and I will probably get it to complete the set.
Mike Carey et al., Lucifer, vols. 1-3: Lucifer runs a bar. He’s out of the game, at least until a messenger from God makes him an offer he doesn’t want to refuse, asking him to investigate some mysterious goings-on involving granted wishes. Lucifer is brutal and confident; his arrogance is both justified and revealed to be horrifying from an ordinary perspective. His interactions with two human girls—both of whom turn out to be less than ordinary—are really interesting; he doesn’t lie, but he does let them assume, mistakenly, that their goals are congruent with his. I also liked his relationship with Mazikeen, a demon whose face is half beautiful woman and half horror. I’m glad there are more volumes ahead for me!
Jim Butcher (writing), Adrian Syaf (art), Welcome to the Jungle: A Harry Dresden graphic novel! Harry looks narrower than I imagined him, consistent with Butcher’s insistence that he’s skinny, but just as tall. He investigates a suspicious murder at the zoo, leading to lots of pictures of gorillas and big cats, and magical fights of course. I don’t think Butcher has a firm handle on the form yet; Harry’s dialogue, which has to do a lot more of the work in this medium, relied too much on actual, obvious quotes from other tough guys of film and TV, and in any event the impact of a tough-guy line is just different when you’re looking at a picture of said tough guy. On the bright side, the women were fully dressed (except in that one concept drawing, and Harry was naked there).
Javier Grillo-Marxuach, The Middleman: The Trade Paperback Imperative and The Second Volume Inevitability: Enough to tide me over to the DVD release. A lot of the lovable elements of the show are in place here, as indicated by the subtitles. But: Wendy and Noser are white; Wendy and Lacey are constantly treated as cheesecake, making it painfully obvious just how much worse comics generally are at representing women because comics don’t have the constraints of even Hollywood’s version of realism to restrain the breast size and waist-to-hip ratio of the characters; and the comics put a lot more relative emphasis on the Middleman. Even though most of what happens in the first few episodes is in these volumes, what the show added was heavily devoted to Wendy and Lacey. The second volume actually has a “legends of the Middleman” chapter where there’s one Wendy-figure who distracts competing warriors by taking off all her clothes at the Middleman’s direction. Overall, the shared charms serve to emphasize how much better the show was (waaah!), though I’ve read that the third volume has some plot stuff in it and I will probably get it to complete the set.
Mike Carey et al., Lucifer, vols. 1-3: Lucifer runs a bar. He’s out of the game, at least until a messenger from God makes him an offer he doesn’t want to refuse, asking him to investigate some mysterious goings-on involving granted wishes. Lucifer is brutal and confident; his arrogance is both justified and revealed to be horrifying from an ordinary perspective. His interactions with two human girls—both of whom turn out to be less than ordinary—are really interesting; he doesn’t lie, but he does let them assume, mistakenly, that their goals are congruent with his. I also liked his relationship with Mazikeen, a demon whose face is half beautiful woman and half horror. I’m glad there are more volumes ahead for me!
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Wow. I learned a new word from that review. (And I want to see that movie now; the action who utters the marzipan dildo line was fantastic in Torchwood.)