I just finished reading the first collection of the Anita Blake: Guilty Pleasures comic. I enjoyed it.
The art for Anita herself was practically perfect. It’s amazing how much the artist managed to convey with just close-ups of her eyes in a couple of scenes. Since scars play a significant part in this story, I found it distracting that it was often hard to tell scars from normal skin lines. I didn’t care as much for the portrayal of the other characters. Jean-Claude’s hairstyle matched Anita’s far too closely. Edward was not even remotely like my mental image of him.
The story-telling itself was decent. There were several points where the story seemed to jump abruptly from one scene to another totally unrelated scene. Overall it did a good job of retelling the story of the novel.
One thing about the story that struck me is that it pretty much opens with Anita crossing a line she’d set for herself. This theme continues through the entire series to date as she crosses line after line. As the series goes on, this becomes a cliche but it isn’t fair to say that Laurell K. Hamilton didn’t give us any warning. Because of this and the tendency to lose the story, I can’t strongly recommend this series. I do enjoy the writing itself even if you come to the end of a couple hundred pages without any material advancement of the story (think Tolkein with sex instead of food and landscape descriptions). 