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Pacifien wrote...
Stories being transferred from one medium (game, tv, movie) to the comic book medium have never gone over well with me. The writing is off, the art is usually subpar. I think people forget that there really is an art to making a good comic book.
Sing it!
Back in the 70s and 80s it was a big deal for Marvel, DC and whoever else was around to churn out movie adaptations in comicbook form. Most sucked. The art was almost always generic and was adapted from the script, not the movie, so it would never have the "feel" of the film. I remember the one for Alien being pretty good as the art was different and it was actually bloodier than the movie. Marvel’s adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey was interesting in that Jack Kirby was the artist, and thus it was heavily stylized. Anyway, while no one ever sets out to write a bad book or comic, the obstacles set up by the powers that be can be enormous.
Let’s take Redemption. The art was generic so it would appeal to a wider audience. Shepard, who we never see, is the McGuffin, the thing Liara is trying to find. Any good story teller will tell you that the McGuffin doesn’t matter. It could be Shepard or a recipe for egg salad. Doesn’t matter. Unfortunately, the writers made it matter. That’s okay. We’re not dead in the water yet. Take Beneath the Planet of the Apes. 75% of the movie is about the search for Charlton Heston w/ a Charlton Heston lookalike, AKA James Franciscus. So, James Franciscus is running around trying to find Charlton Heston and all the while discovering the crazy kooks who live beneath the planet of the apes. But finally, Jimmy finds Chuck. Chuck is there. Charlton Heston is there speaking words and he gives us a great big pay off by blowing up the world. In Redemption, Liara finally finds Shepard and he, (or she. Blue Suns must have never studied rudimentary anatomy), is mulch. We get topsoil in the form of something that might be a human being. Yes, it does follow the events as laid out in the game, but it is not a very compelling pay off. The pay off we do get is some guy we barely know sacrificing himself for topsoil because of a girl who might, but we don’t know because the story never makes it very clear, like Shepard. No one in their right mind would set out to write a story like this unless, A. they didn’t have a clue as to what they were doing or B. they were handicapped to begin with by greater powers than themselves. I’m 100% certain B is the correct answer the case of Redemption. Comics, movies or whatever that are based on specific properties will never work unless they are given the freedom to live on their own. This I believe.
Anyway, that is my rather long winded reason as to why I totally agree w/ Pacifien.
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