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SOULLESS MANGA VOL.4 SERIES
This comics version of the first volume of Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series is a cute, charming version of the story. Hope she doesn't come hunt me down and kick my virtual butt for not hosting my own pics. Maybe it was to distract from the big nose (which wasn't really highlighted in the artwork).Īnyway, I unashamedly hotlinked from Ms. What was up with Alexia having such a nice rack? Kickass. I wish that I could share some of the artwork with you but trying to take pics of the artwork on my reader was not working out so well, so I'm going to be lazy and nab some online renderings that I found from the graphic. I linked my review for the book because I'm not going to refresh my review for the story.the manga/graphics are a condensed/reworked version of the original, so my thoughts about the story itself are in my review for the print book. Heck, I feel like I need to go back and re-read Soulless (my thoughts) because I think I might have been way too hard on the original book version now after enjoying this so much.
This would make a fun anime as well, but many are called, few are chosen for that apotheosis, so I won't hold my breath.ĭayum. I do hope they sell well enough to get the ensuing three parts into print, since my favorite minor character, the urbane werewolf Professor Lyall, gets more screen time later in the tales.
I bought both extant volumes at once, and shot through them in one interrupted day. Which everyone should read anyway, just for cultural literacy. If one is still deeply suspicious of the graphic media generally, it might not be a bad idea to start with Scott McCloud's elegant classic Understanding Comics. If one likes manga, one would probably enjoy this example if one has never read a manga, this seems like a fine one to jump in with. There is alas no way to rerun the test the other way around with one brain, but I mean to foist these first two volumes on a friend for a blind tasting and see how they work for her. I am a bit handicapped in judging this example as a stand-alone due to having read the original novels (all five of 'em) first. is not actually a problem in maintaining humor in the story. (The main character, Alexia, has no sense of humor that the F.B.I. Also, the change somehow punched up the deadpan humor, all to the good. From books whose characters mainly had shallows in that department, what was lost in the transition had less impact than what was added in immediacy. They have the strengths of the visual media, of immediate apprehension of scene and visual detail, but miss the main potential strength of written fiction of getting directly and deeply inside characters' heads. It took me a while, back when I was first exploring graphic media, to realize that comics are rather more like movies on paper than they are like illustrated written fiction. Some of the overfill viz genre-blending in the novels seemed to drop out in the simplifications needed to change media, and the artwork generally was delightful. For one thing, manga plots usually are deeply goofy and don't make a whole lot of linear sense, so this slots right in to the expectations of the form. I think this story made a better manga than it did a novel. This review stands for the first two volumes in what I hope will be a continuing and concluding manga series that adapts five original novels.
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