Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse: Necromancer #4: The Annotating

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

It's that time again, my friends! Chris's Invincible Super-Blog rushes in where angels fear to tread as he suffers the indignities of Anita Blake: The Laughing Corpse: Necromancer #4.

Comments

[mulder200.livejournal.com]

God, this artwork is terrible! And once again, there is a lot of talking but nothing interesting happens at all.

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

Am I insane? Pirate treasure? I do not recall that at all.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who recommended the comics to me. when I replied that they seemed really shitty, she was all, "Oh, they're not good as most comics are concerned, but they're AWESOME as adaptations of the books!"

I kind of headdesked and asked her what her basis of comparison was. I would have shoved the ISB links at her, but she would have just said it didn't count because Chris hadn't read the books.

I think I hate people.

[othellia.livejournal.com]

I was reading this yesterday morning, but was too busy/lazy/really shouldn't have been reading it during one of my lectures/[insert excuse here], so I didn't post it.

I love Chris.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I honestly never thought there was a way to make the novels worse.

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love a good rifftrax for terrible comics. ^_^ My day has been brightened a bit.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

They haven't pushed Divine Misdemeanors's drop date forward yet...

[quizzicalsphinx.livejournal.com]

You should call LKH at six every morning and say that one sentence.

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

Somehow I wound up looking at the reviews for one of the AB comics the other day-- the ratings were a lot higher than I expected-- but anyway, one of the reviewers actually praised the comics for being just like the books but with pictures. Oi.

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

My favorite comment:

You know what else Anita has in common with Adolf Hitler? She spends a lot of time wishing she had blonde hair and blue eyes. She really, really pines after being a Nordic superwoman.

Heehee. (She's also good at amassing a troubled but loyal base of supporters and rising to power. Hmm.)

[kd-lalala.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank God, I thought I was the only one who didn't remember. I remember he was looking for something very valuable but where did the pirates come in? In MISSOURI? River pirates, maybe? I've lived here all my live and don't remember stories about river pirates....

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Corpse_%28novel%29) says he was trying to raise a family ancestor to find out where the family treasure wound up. Also, revenge, since said family rejected him.

No mention of pirates, though.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Never have I seen a comic that distrusts it's readers' intellegence more than this one. Zombie pirate treasure actually sounds really cool if you wrote it as a comedy (actually I think Codename: Kids Next Door did something similar). Sad to think everything so far in this comic could've been done in three if LKH wasn't so in love with her characters narration and mundane life.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

You know what, that is a very good point, and something I need to remind myself of concerning "True Blood" (which I was grumbling about after Sunday's episode). As irritated as I am about Alan Ball's decidedly loose adaptation of Charlaine Harris' books to the small screen, I have to admit that comparing "True Blood" too much to the "Sookie Stackhouse" books takes away from the originality and creativity of the television series. Hell, Ball and Harris both admitted that they don't tell each other how to do their things. If Ball had stuck to the books exactly, we'd probably see too much of Anna Paquin talking to herself.

I agree with your assessment of Hogfather. The book is one of my absolutele favorite Discworld novels. When I'd heard that they were turning it into a miniseries, I was ecstatic. Then when I actually saw the miniseries, I found it rather sluggish, despite the attempts of the actors to act as best they could.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__fantine/]

I know absolutely zero about comic books (I've only read a tiny bit of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac at the urging of my gf and have seen Amazons Attack abridged/reviewed by Linkara, but that's it) and even I can tell that that art is absolutely atrocious. Ugly, ugly, ugly.
Also for some reason I can't help laughing at Wheelchair Wanda (...Wheelchair Wanda? Seriously? Not Disabled Danielle? Legless Laura? Anything else equally offensive and gross?). I mean...I don't even know. Maybe it's the nice-girl bohemian skirt hooker clothes. She's certainly a very prim prostitute. I don't even know, maybe I'm just laughing at the ridiculous name.
But yeah, I'm pretty sure that zombie pirate treasure actually was the plot of a Monkey Island game. Or that Pirates of the Caribbean level in Kingdom Hearts. Or, hell - Pirates of the Caribbean itself.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Oh, she knows. SHE KNOWS.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's the nice-girl bohemian skirt hooker clothes.

Yes, I found myself wondering if sex workers really dressed like social workers in St. Louis, and if the reverse was also true. ST. LOUIS WORLD AM BIZARRO WORLD! which would explain a lot about LKH and also the Cardinals' recent trades.

[shadwing.livejournal.com]

Check her tweets, a pattern has developed for every few dozen pages she cranks out...a HUGE deletion of many pages happens a few days latter.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

Today she was congratulating herself for getting 4 pages done by 10:30 AM and then that was apparently all she did for the day because at 3:00 she was tweeting about "4 pages of Merry done today". This was after a "necessary" weekend getaway to visit friends from Friday morning through some time Monday.

But, she's a workaholic, workity, workity, work, work. Our Laurell is all about the work. Unless she has to color the comic books.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

You'd think a speciality hooker would have a more private head quarters than just roaming the streets.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

That's very true. Because comics are a visual medium a slightly faster pace and more action\movement is needed. I'm not talking about fights, but as you said, the characters have to do more than blah, blah, blah.

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

That line totally cracked me up, because it's so freakishly true.

[othellia.livejournal.com]

*has relative default icon for like the first time ever*

IAWTC. What I didn't like about the Hogfather mini-series is that although the makers has the space to cram in all this other stuff, they never took the time to explain that what Teatime did in the Tooth Fairy's castle is what made the Hogfather disappear in the first place. So the whole ordeal just ends up seeming even more tedious and confusing. And the scene that never happened in the book with Twyla and Gawain seeing their father dressed as the Hogfather, that I suppose the makers just wanted to throw in for a cheap shot.

Though the mini-series does have its moments because of the source material, and that's something that definitely can't be said about the AB:VH comic books. Plus I think they did a pretty good job with the Colour of Magic/the Light Fantastic.

[ladyblue99.livejournal.com]

Yeah well, you've heard about "Meals on Wheels" haven't you. I guess she just takes it to a whole other level...Specialty Hoooker and all.
God this is a bad comic...Went back and read Chris's other post on this comic. Very amused and horrified.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Not to mention cops would be less likesly to suspect her of anything with how she dresses and being disabled.