OH THANK GOD. This whole comics thing has been an absolute disaster with the Laughing Corpse adaption taking seventeen months to be released. Yeah, issue one came out back in October 2008.
And! Now they've just got Circus of the Damned to go! I have no idea if they're going to do three more books, but after drawing out Laughing Corpse to ten issues too many, I live in dread and anticipation of many lulz. I have to go through the Laughing Corpse and see what panels I can photoshop to make them...less boring.
ETA: okay, now that I've read everything, I can reply to that "LKH does not seem to realise that comics have, um, pictures." part -- there was a podcast interview that I found not too long ago where she ranted about how there's no point in doing an adaption unless it's 100% faithful to the source. She got legitimately angry about the idea that someone may change her works in order to suit a visual medium, and this is one of the reasons why she signed up with Dabel Brothers (before AB:VH comics were bought by Marvel) because they let her have that level of control/veto over what was going on. I'm pretty sure it's also one of the reasons why she pulled the plug on the telemovie. So, unless you're willing to transcribe everything directly from the novels just as she intended, you don't get to play in her sandbox.
Whcih is a pity, because I maintain that if the comic people were allowed to do their jobs and didn't have to run everything past her for approval, a) we'd get issues out on a more regular basis, and b) we wouldn't have to sit through fifteen agonising issues of one book. But noooo, it all has to go through LKH, who has zero comics background and is learning how to "see" stories in comic form rather than as a book.
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Date: 2010-04-06 05:33 pm (UTC)And! Now they've just got Circus of the Damned to go! I have no idea if they're going to do three more books, but after drawing out Laughing Corpse to ten issues too many, I live in dread and anticipation of many lulz. I have to go through the Laughing Corpse and see what panels I can photoshop to make them...less boring.
ETA: okay, now that I've read everything, I can reply to that "LKH does not seem to realise that comics have, um, pictures." part -- there was a podcast interview that I found not too long ago where she ranted about how there's no point in doing an adaption unless it's 100% faithful to the source. She got legitimately angry about the idea that someone may change her works in order to suit a visual medium, and this is one of the reasons why she signed up with Dabel Brothers (before AB:VH comics were bought by Marvel) because they let her have that level of control/veto over what was going on. I'm pretty sure it's also one of the reasons why she pulled the plug on the telemovie. So, unless you're willing to transcribe everything directly from the novels just as she intended, you don't get to play in her sandbox.
Whcih is a pity, because I maintain that if the comic people were allowed to do their jobs and didn't have to run everything past her for approval, a) we'd get issues out on a more regular basis, and b) we wouldn't have to sit through fifteen agonising issues of one book. But noooo, it all has to go through LKH, who has zero comics background and is learning how to "see" stories in comic form rather than as a book.