giants and magic gems and dudes wearing all black

Jorge Rapalo · 29 Nov 2008, 13:36 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: jrapalo at gmail.com (Jorge Rapalo)
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:36:44 -0600
Subject: (urth) giants and magic gems and dudes wearing all black
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> Jeff Wilson wrote:
>
>> Yes - it would be unthinkable for him to write a graphic novel about
>> characters and situations originally appearing in prose novels.
>>
>>
> I suppose you're referring to Moore's "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,"
> though I think he's doing something like he did in "Watchmen" -- a
> deconstruction of the world of heroic pulp fiction by putting all these
> characters into the same world and letting realistic consequences flow from
> that. He's not trying to re-create those characters exactly as they were in
> the novels, but to do something new with them.


  And that doing something new with them is probably the same rationale of
the movie studios adapting works, so the point still stands, I think.
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