Jhereg by steven brust6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This makes for brisk reading, and it’s sometimes choppy waters. “Reading a book can’t be this much fun! It’s can’t! It’s impossible!” So adapting it into a brief graphic novel is a challenge, and they wisely steer clear of trying to retain the amusing patter (because the book is 90% amusing patter) and try to get the main plot elements in instead. Jhereg is one of these books: It’s a book that’s so much fun to read that it makes your head reel. He’s very uneven, but when he’s good he’s irresistible. Which is super odd.Īnyway! I’ve read just about everything Brust has written. I think Pierard is mainly a book illustrator? However, Zelenetz is a comic book writer, so perhaps this won’t be the usual Preiss experience…Īuthor Steven Brust provides the introduction, but doesn’t really say much beyond some general platitudes, because he hadn’t seen the adaptation when he wrote the introduction. Preiss was infamous for trying to culture up comics, which resulted in many awkward adaptations of novels, and comics created by people who’ve never made comics before. Adapted by Alan Zelenetz and John Pierard ![]()
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