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_Kingdom Come_, Elliot S! Maggin
Wait, didn't I just read this a week or two ago?
No, that was the graphic novel. This is the novelization of the graphic novel.
It's a companion to the graphic novel, actually, as it eluicdates several scenes and provides a few interstitials to show what was going on... but as a standalone novel, it's not so good. I think that's because Maggin felt compelled to stick close to the narrative of the visual art. Working in the medium of inspiring imagination rather than stimulating rods and cones, an author can (and should) take different approaches to the same ends.
My internal chronometer is different for graphic novels versus the textual sort. I expect a novel to illuminate days and weeks, at least, of the character's lives; I am not surprised when a movie happens more-or-less in realtime. For me, graphic novels are more like movies.
Wait, didn't I just read this a week or two ago?
No, that was the graphic novel. This is the novelization of the graphic novel.
It's a companion to the graphic novel, actually, as it eluicdates several scenes and provides a few interstitials to show what was going on... but as a standalone novel, it's not so good. I think that's because Maggin felt compelled to stick close to the narrative of the visual art. Working in the medium of inspiring imagination rather than stimulating rods and cones, an author can (and should) take different approaches to the same ends.
My internal chronometer is different for graphic novels versus the textual sort. I expect a novel to illuminate days and weeks, at least, of the character's lives; I am not surprised when a movie happens more-or-less in realtime. For me, graphic novels are more like movies.
