Sort of but not really related to LKH

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Hello all, very occasional commenter and long-time lurker here (I am a champion lurker. I can lurk like no one's business). Anyway, we've all seen the hideousness that is the Guilty Pleasures comic, and laughed accordingly. So I was quite excited yesterday when I got to work and found the Harry Dresden comic waiting for me. The art is good! Everyone is proportional! It is funny, as opposed to snicker-inducing!



The story: A hapless night watchmen has been torn apart at the Chicago zoo, and the prime suspect is Moe the gorilla. Except that makes no sense. So Murphy calls in Harry to investigate.




Needless to say, Harry discovers that Something Is Afoot, and it's not a berzerk gorilla. The series is a four-parter, so we'll have to stay tuned.

And finally, at the back of the book, was a preview for the adaptation of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, illustrated by none other than Brett Booth, which is why the creature, despite being stitched together from dismembered corpses, is so very pretty.



Long, flowing hair? Check.

Freakishly rippling abs, displayed by open shirt/coat? Check.

Thighs like a Christmas goose? Check and check.

Uergh.

Comments

[soup-of-the-dog.livejournal.com]

Icon Lurve!

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's by curtana. She did a series of snarky Pre-Raphealite icons.

[gothgoddessrhia.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful. Ironic that is Sappho. :)

[oh-hay-britney.livejournal.com]

Do me, Frankenstein. *rips bodice*

xD

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

*sighs* If only all stitched-together, reanimated corpses looked that good.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

....Ew, he looks so much like Philip. :(

[christraven.livejournal.com]

All of Brett Booth's men look like Philip. The man has a standard template that he doesn't bother to deviate from, unfortunately.

[easol.livejournal.com]

The saddest thing being that y'know, you can create a Frankensteincreaturish character who is good looking, but still damn creepy. Like Nobuhiro Watsuki's "Embalming" stories; the Frankenstein guy is good looking, but makes you want to hide and whimper.

But that Creature looks like he's just a big sulky teenager with a pout and "brooding" eyes.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

Cheer up, emomonster!

[easol.livejournal.com]

Same here! She doesn't look like she's displaying her tits, or her lips, or her hair, or anything. She looks like a professional woman.

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

Dear GOD the contrast in awesomeness is painful.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Oh Lord, they dug up Phillip, covered him in stitches and reanimated him with lightning. Run for my sanity!

As for the Dresden Files stuff, that is pretty much how I expected Harry to look. :) Okay, I expected more hats, but that's because I LOOOOVE the book covers and I'm a goth cowboy nerd. Murphy, not so much -- I expected her to look more cherubic and cute, except in expression. But she's not bad.

[genchaos.livejournal.com]

I was expecting shorter hair and yeah, the cherubic/ cute thing. But she'll do, especially since her art isn't milking 'Hot Chick' for all it's worth. :)

[easol.livejournal.com]

Actually this must be some kind of mass internal hallucination, because I went back and checked the books, and in "Storm Front' she has shoulder length hair. By Book 4 or 5 she's apparently gotten it cut shorter with bangs.

See, LKH? This is what happens when you pay attention to details of your characters' lives, even if it's something as teeny as a haircut.

[sharkbytes.livejournal.com]

aw, yay!!! I can't wait to pick this up <3 Thanks so much for posting this.

[agatha-mandrake.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I was so excited when I found out this comic was coming, and no one at the store can understand why. I knew the lashers would understand.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

The Beetle? - check!
Harry's sarcastic brand of humour? - check!
Bullshit-proof Murphy? - check!

This is NICE! ^^ Thank you do much for posting it!
NO Thomas though *sigh* oh well.

Frankie looks... not bad^__^ *come to momma you pretty piece of a##* Just those sorrowful eyes *le sigh*

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

No, no Thomas, since "Welcome to the Jungle" is set pre-Storm Front. So no Thomas, no Molly, no Susan, no Mouse and no Marcone (sob!).

But it's good anyway.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

'course it is, Harry's there!^__^ But still, Marcone would be a nice addition... maybe on a poster with him and his Kalashnikov? XD

[easol.livejournal.com]

Wah, no Thomas! I'll have to wait a looooong time for that... sigh. I wants me some graphic-novel Thomas, now that I know the art doesn't suck!

If he'd been a Brett Booth pouting emoboy, I think I would have gotten very violent. Murphy-with-a-machine-gun violent.

[burning-nova.livejournal.com]

God, I think I've lost it. The one thing I found myself commenting on was "He tucks in his shirt." When I saw Harry. I must get that comic though and the new book. Damn my upcoming money-consuming finances. If only...

The other one though, I thought it looked like Jean Claude. It's kind of what I'd expect to see if Jean-Claude and Asher (whom I've not seen drawn) someone how became fused. It's really bad. Besides the real Creature has yellow skin.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else laugh when Harry says "Rawhead and Bloody Bones. I hate these things"?

And really, this one had everything that LKH's didn't. Realistic artwork, witty literate remarks, women who don't have to be "teh sexy but pretending they aren't," a sense of humor, and some cliffhangers that aren't just someone leaping at our hero.

And it helps to have a protagonist who isn't illegally threatening people, isn't waving his balls in others' faces, isn't snogging strippers, and isn't just bumbling around blindly in hopes of tripping over the murderer. It's even nicer to have a protagonist who doesn't label everyone who isn't worshipful of him "evil." Note the notebook whacking Harry in the head.

Even better, Butcher ain't so in love with his own prose that he weighs down the action with it. And the shot of Harry pointing a finger at a Red Court vampire really made me laugh.