Tommy Patterson

I've read almost everything to do with the Song of Ice and Fire series. The visuals in the books seem to be more inspired by the book descriptions then the show which I really enjoy. It's very satisfying to see the world in more colour. I was always kind of disappointed that the show gave up on depicting the the colour of the clothing and banners described in the books. The story and dialogue is definitely simplified but the back of the comics gives details of how the creators decided what dialogue to keep in graphic novel.… (plus d'informations)

I'm enjoying the graphic novel adaptations of one of my favorite book series-they certainly have their work cut out for them. The artwork is striking and appealing-my favorite of this collection was the depiction of the Eyrie and Catelyn's long climb by moonlight.

It's a simple enough idea, but I thought it was clever of them to color-code the narration points of view, a neat adaptation of the POV chapters in the original novels.

In both volumes 1 and 2, the creators have closed with a behind the scenes look at adapting something as huge and complicated as the Song of Ice and Fire series into a graphic novel. It's fun to read about the process and get visuals of the different stages of creation.

I'm very impressed with both the art and the storytelling-I'm glad they're not even through the first book-all the more for me to devour.

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