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A carregar... Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1 (2020)por Frank Herbert, Kevin J Anderson, Brian Herbert (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I don't know why I keep doing this to myself. Okay, well, I know, but I kinda don't know, either. Here's the thing: I love the Dune series. I mean, after the first trilogy, it's definitely diminishing returns, but those first three books? Damn. I've read those first three at least four times, and each time, I get something new out of them. Then, after Frank Herbert passed, his supremely untalented son Brian hooked up with Kevin J. Anderson, supreme hack, and then proceeded to crap all over Frank Herbert's legacy. Where Frank's writing was lyrical, philosophical, subtle, and carried various shades that hid layers of depth, Brian and Kevin just spit out on-the-nose dialogue, bland plots, with no depth. It's like getting Terry Brooks to add to Tolkien's Middle Earth saga. It's like getting James Patterson to write the sequel to any Cormac McCarthy novel. They'd both likely say yes, but the results would be ass. So, now the dreadful duo take on distilling Frank's greatest novel down to a comic book script and find an art team that can do creative justice to all the wonderful things involved in building out the Dune universe. And the results are, as per Brian and Kevin's standards, underwhelming. The writing—and trust me, I understand what a daunting task it must be to turn this novel...even roughly a third of it...into a workable graphic novel—is stilted, with no subtlety. In short, standard junior Herbert and Anderson fare. It's mostly banal. As for the art, it's a bit better, but it feels like Raúl Allén is trying to ape Gabriel Rodriguez's style (likely most famous for his art in Locke & Key), while trying to be a bit less cartoony. But the static nine-panel page layout he favours does little to break the monotony. Let's face it, Dune is a lot of talking, or a lot of explaining. I mean, Frank wasn't your typical action-sequence writer, and the bigass battle he leads to at the end of the book spans...what? one or two paragraphs? My point is, this graphic novel requires an artist that can create dynamic interest out of a fair amount of talking heads, through various camera angles, close ups and long shots, and interesting backgrounds and actions, while make all those talking heads fascinating. Raúl Allén ain't that guy. Hell, if they had gotten Bill Sienkiewicz to do the insides instead of just the cover, he may have managed to overcome the crap writing and give us something approaching special. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Picking up something that is inspired by Frank Herbert, hoping against hope that it'll be better than what they've done before, but ultimately realizing that, once again, a good idea was butchered by Brian and Kevin. Why do I do it? Because I love Dune. I've loved it since I first read it at 14, and 44 years later, I still do. So yeah, I'll help line Brian and Kevin's pockets with more undeserved wealth and pick up the next couple of installments of this, but I don't expect to be anything but underwhelmed again and again. derson, Raúl Allén & Patricia Martín (2020, USA). Despite repeated attempts to find further means of cashing in on the Dune corpus, by 2010 interest had clearly begun to wane and two planned Dune books by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson were quietly cancelled (although another trilogy was completed and published). With, it must be said, good reason: their additions to the Dune universe have been uniformly shit. But then the Dune film – its second movie adaptation – was greenlighted, with no less than semi-auteur box-office darling Denis Villeneuve at the helm, and the Dune universe suddenly got a shot in the arm. I’d thought this graphic novel adaptation was, like the earlier Marvel one, tied in to the new movie adaptation. But now I’m not so sure. The artwork in the graphic novel doesn’t appear to match the production design from the Dune movie trailer. Which suggests it’s yet another cash-in. On the one hand, the graphic novel is faithful to the novel. But it fluffs some scenes – the banquet scene especially – and puts too much emphasis on others, such as the gom jabbar scene. But, worse than that, everything looks disappointingly generic. Lynch’s film had its problems, but it looked absolutely gorgeous. It had exactly that level of over-elaborate design you’d expect of Frank Herbert’s universe. I doubt Villeneuve’s production design will match it. The graphic novel art looks, well, boring. The characters appear far too ordinary and similar and, disappointingly, there’s no intricate detail in the backgrounds. This is the blandest version of Dune that has been produced yet. I will, of course, be buying books two and three. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
É uma adaptação deDune por Frank Herbert
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HTML:The definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Frank Herbert Dune, Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction masterpiece set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar society, tells the story of Paul Atreides as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism, and politics, Dune is a powerful, fantastical tale that takes an unprecedented look into our universe, and is transformed by the graphic novel format. In the first volume of a three-book trilogy encompassing the original novel, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's adaptation retains the story's integrity, and Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín's magnificent illustrations, along with cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz, bring the book to life for a new generation of readers. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Finally, Harkonnen's are portrayed as a sinister but not degenerative force. They are sick but not look-my-pus-streaming-down sick. Baron was great and so was his crazy Mentat Piter de Vries.
Art is gorgeous and very detailed. It reminds me very much of the Belgian school, especially authors of stories like XIII and Largo Winch. Art might look a little bit stiff at moments but is very realistic.
Only issue I had is basically main difficulty with any Dune adaptation. Book is very introspective, every character trying to win the mental game of chess with everyone around them, in real life it would be whole bunch of weird staring contests. This constant internal dialogue is very difficult for presentation in visual media. In this adaptation they managed to do it justice but it does have a little bit awkward effect.
All in all excellent adaptations. Book stops at the end of the first third of the story and second volume comes next year (which is saaaad but OK, I hope they continue with the same quality).
Recommended to all fans of good epic space opera SF, newcomers and readers already familiar with the story and lore. ( )