The Little Green God of Agony

[cyberghostface]

"The Little Green God of Agony" was a serialized webcomic based on a Stephen King short story that was published on his website for free over several weeks. As such, I'll only post the opening pages with a link to the rest of the story.

















The rest, if you're interested, can be read here (or start from the beginning here).

Comments

[captainbellman]

Evidently whoever drew this knows the phrase "Copy + Paste" better than they know "Show, Not Tell".

Also, the sloppy layout on the final pages of the story made them horribly hard to follow.

[pyrrhocorax]

It's a really bad story to try to tell as a comic in the first place, and whoever did the text seems to have been incapable of condensing the original even a little bit.

[captainbellman]

But there's so much potential to take liberties though. Look at all the excellent old graphic adaptations of Ray Bradbury's stories, each of which is crammed with rich, complicated sentence structure.

Heck, look at Dave McKean's barely-abridged picturebook of "The Homecoming". Like the above story, that's set in one single location - but you barely notice, what with the elegant visuals McKean uses to tell the story via character and emotion.

Pencils are wasted on some people.

[tammy_moore]

That story didn't really lend itself to a visual format very well, did it? It's so static, and I was so uninvolved that about my only thought was 'I guess Stephen King didn't like physical therapy after his accident.'

I am not entirely sure what the point of it was - although maybe that's down to the awkward layout at the end rather than the story.

[ilmari]

I haven't read the original story but yeah, it does seem that perhaps someone should have realized that pages of people standing around a person's bed doesn't exactly make for a riveting visual presentation.

[mrosa]

It should have been titled "The Gnomic Green God of Agony," for alliteration's sake.

[icon_uk]

Except the "G" in gnomic is silent, so it wouldn't be alliterative, alliteration is a repetition in sound.

[mrosa]

Hm, good point.

[leoboiko]

It is…?

You win this time again, English spelling! But one day I'll master you!

[thatnickguy]

Man, on that cover, Chevy Chase looks like he's trying to push out the biggest dookie of all time.

[captainbellman]

"Okay, I didn't really avoid sitting on [my balls]. Sat right on 'em. Hurt like hell. I saw Eagles."