Anita Blake Graphic Novel

anita_blake_comic 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).  pa20080602

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