A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume Two Author: George R.R. Martin | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CWEQ62S | Format: PDF
A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel: Volume Two Description
Novelist Daniel Abraham and illustrator Tommy Patterson are not merely turning George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy A Game of Thrones into a graphic novel: They are meticulously translating one art form into another, and capturing the intricate nuances of Martin's novels just as HBO is doing with the blockbuster series. The Abraham/Patterson collaboration is more than just a faithful adaptation. It is a labor of love-and a thrilling masterwork in its own right. Now, in the second volume, the sweeping action moves from the icy north, where the bastard Jon Snow seeks to carve out a place for himself among bitter outcasts and hardened criminals sworn to service upon the Wall . . . to the decadent south and the capital city of King's Landing, where Jon's father, Lord Eddard Stark, serves as the Hand of King Robert Baratheon amid a nest of courtly vipers . . . to the barbarian lands across the Narrow Sea, where the young princess Daenerys Targaryen has found the unexpected in her forced marriage to the Dothraki warlord Khal Drogo: love-and with it, for the first time in her life, power. Meanwhile, the dwarf Tyrion Lannister, accused by Lady Catelyn Stark of the attempted murder of her now-crippled youngest son, must call upon all his cunning and wit to survive when he is captured and imprisoned in the lofty dungeons of the Eyrie, where Lady Stark's sister-a woman obsessed with vengeance against all Lannisters-rules. But Catelyn's impulsive arrest of the Imp will set in motion a series of violent events whose outcome is fated to shake the world at the worst possible moment. For now is not the time for private feuds and bloodthirsty ambitions. Winter is coming . . . and with it, terrors beyond imagining.
- File Size: 116001 KB
- Print Length: 240 pages
- Publisher: Bantam (June 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CWEQ62S
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Unfortunately Martin's great work does not receive the work of illustration it requires. This work of illustration does not in fact match Martin's work in quality and is less well-adapted to Martin's many masterful character personalities and their development. It does not evoke any positive effect on one like me who has a long history of reading comics and graphic novels by some of the best and many of the run of the mill illustrators and colorists.
I am sorry if my comparison seems vague at first but when my wife read the first few pages of volume one I waited for her to eventually tell me her impression. It took more than a day before she gave me her unsolicited appraisal. She was quite disappointed. She found it uninteresting compared to the novel and to the HBO film series, both of which we deeply admire.
I then set before her for comparison Alan Moore's Watchmen (also a great novel in its own right), with illustrations and lettering by Dave Gibbons, and coloring by John Higgins to see what she thought. Immediately her comment was "that's what I was expecting!"
Additional examples of great illustration in a graphic novel form can be found in Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, with Klause Janson and Lynn Varley. Also the work of Moebius for The Incal, or Otomo's Akira make the comparison plain to see.
Why this illustrator would not wish to emulate the best in his own way is the failure of this work. We do not therefore have a graphic novel form of the Game of Thrones yet.
Even less well reviewed graphic novels in the DC or Marvel universe seem many times somehow to work well with the reader compared to Tommy Patterson's work in these first two volumes.
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