Another perspective on the comic...

[pandorasblog]

While delving through my comics/feminism RSS feeds, I ran across an article: Why The Anita Blake Comic Won't Succeed (And Trust Me, I Want To Be Wrong). It turns out to be less an article on the likelihood of that particular comic doing well, and more one on why the author doesn't seem to think that many women read comics at all (began commenting, then realised it was turning into an essay; life's too short, yadda yadda yadda). Nevertheless, I thought it was interesting to have a line on the comic from outside the immediate fandom, and this is a particularly ironic one since LKH seems to have added First Ever Bringer Of Comics To Wimminkind to her list of imagined accomplishments...

Comments

[larathia.livejournal.com]

Why should a working woman/mom (and yes, I’m being a bit stereotypical here) who does most of the shopping for her household plunk down $3.95 (minimum) for a comic that will provide her 30-45 minutes of escape when she can buy an Anita Blake novel for $6.99 and get 4-8 hours of pleasure, with more detail, not to mention the sex scenes which will most likely be cut out?

Really? PROMISE? I will so buy the comic just for that. Oh yes. Yes please. Sex-free AB? And no ten pages of what she's fucking wearing because it's ON THE PAGE ALREADY?

...I wasn't a big fan of this idea, but now I'm thinking I just might give it a go.

[zgirl714.livejournal.com]

Damn that is a good point!

[pandorasblog]

Firstly, my understanding is that it's an adaption of Guilty Pleasures, which didn't have any sex in it. The writer mentions disliking the early books, so she may not have read enough of them to realise the content of that first story.

As for if/when they adapt the later books... it's hard to say. On the one hand, there are more comics featuring explicit sexual stuff than there used to be, particularly since the Comics Code stopped being the be-all and end-all for mainstream publishers. On the other hand, comics are a different medium, and there's a lot to get through in a small number of pages per installment. I'd willingly sacrifice having to *see* nekkid Anita embracing whoever, just so long as I didn't have to read repititious stuff about how hot! wet! and tight! it was for the six pages it seems to take in prose...

[scarbie.livejournal.com]

And no ten pages of what she's fucking wearing because it's ON THE PAGE ALREADY?

*ROFL!* Maybe LKH should've gone the graphic novel route sooner. *lol* That is a great point. It's like, "Damn! I know your Nikes have the swoosh that matches the tank top you're wearing under your short-sleeved black rayon dress shirt." By it already being on the page that cuts out a 1/4 of the book. :)

I'm not too worried about the sex scenes for Guilty Pleasures because that book was tame by current AB standards.