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Comic and Graphic Books. Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:In DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad�??Dib, the second of three volumes adapting Frank Herbert�??s Dune, young Paul Atreides and his mother, the lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep desert of Arrakis. Betrayed by one of their own and destroyed by their greatest enemy, Paul and Jessica must find the mysterious Fremen, or perish. This faithful adaptation of the 1965 novel, Dune, by Brian Herbert, son of Frank Herbert, and the New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson, continues to explore Paul�??s journey as he evolves from boy to mysterious messiah. Illustrated by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín, this spectacular blend of adventure and spirituality, environmentalism, and politics is a groundbreaking look into our universe and transformed by the graphic novel format into a powerful, fantastical tale for a new generation of readers.… (more)
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The art makes some bold—yet sometimes bewildering—choices, and they don't always work. Personally, I find the linework rather workmanlike, and it doesn't seem to often bring the scale, the majesty, and the sheer
And then there's the writing. Frank Herbert was verbose, but he was careful with not just the thoughts, ideas, concepts, and dialogue he put into his books, but also the word choices and the phrasing. It flowed.
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson feel more like they're coming from the "good enough is great" point of view. Have to hack up the dialogue? Good enough. Have to make jarring leaps between the pages, or even between the panels? Good enough. Have to shorten long patches of dialogue to clunky summaries? Good enough.
None of this is good enough, and it's certainly far from great.
But, being the idiot I am, I'll still buy the last one in this trilogy of books and I grouse just as loudly about that one, too.
I really hate what Frank's son is doing to this series.
What I like the most is return to my first experiences with the dune - people wearing full face coverings when in desert. Of course since this is visual medium having everyone walking around with fully covered heads would mean not being able to identify the characters at all so good portion of story is without any head-dresses. Again - due to the medium it makes sense.
I especially liked that Giedi Prime was not depicted as hellish place but as throne world of despotic ruler - with people and light during the day and imposing brutal architecture but just another Great House throne world, house with the ambitions and ready to do whatever is necessary to achieve their goals. As I said this was refreshing from the gloom and doom presentation that is usual in the movies (especially Lynch's work).
Also great to see was Count Fenring, Emperor's personal assassin and his wife and their scheming during the Feyd Rautha's duel in the arena.
Art is very realistic (if you want to be picky the most unrealistic are designs of ornithopters, but they are very difficult to figure out and I think insect-like flyers from the movie are the best visual designs so far) and coloring is very very good. Entire feel is very cinematic and for me this is most faithful graphic-novel representation of the story so far.
Cannot wait for book 3.
Highly recommended.