A Game of Thrones #1

[lordultimus]

12 out of 36 pages.

Warning for gore and some nudity.

Comments

[cyberghostface]

To me one of the biggest issues is the moving such a dense book to the medium. At 22 pages or so a month it moves at a snail's pace. Same thing with Marvel's The Stand.

[laughing_tree]

On the one hand, sure. On the other, how many people buying this wouldn't already know the story anyway? For something like this, I imagine the primary interest for most readers is seeing a work they like get adapted, not in what happens next. It's a different set of priorities, one where pacing is a lot less relevant.

Original graphic novels would probably have been a much better format than monthly comics though, yeah.

[cyberghostface]

Well I didn't even bother with GoT aside from the Sandor issues (and those more or less confirmed my initial thoughts since it was basically two chapters per issue) but with The Stand I approached it as someone who read the book and was a fan of SK and I eventually dropped it midway through the second arc because of how slow it was in monthly increments.

On a related note I think the comics for 'The Hedge Knight' were great. The original story is a novella (so the comic was only five or so issues) that's lighter in comparison to the main series and it's more of a traditional fantasy adventure and IMO it lent itself really well to the medium.