Perhaps the only drawback to these wonderful graphic novels is that they only work successfully as a set-readers who pick up this volume without having read the first or the original novel will immediately find themselves lost. All but one artist illustrated a chapter in the previous volume, creating additional continuity between the volumes.
The graphic structure also remains the same, with each chapter illustrated by a different artist, including observable but undisruptive shifts in color palate, shading, and detail. Only Bod and Scarlett appear to have aged, and illustrations render the grownup Bod as more confident and more moody as he strains against the limitations of his graveyard life. Full-color panels by a variety of artists convey Gaiman’s prose faithfully, with all its eerie and emotional impact. All the strengths of the first volume carry forward under the direction of established Gaiman collaborator and adaptor P. With him throughout are his ghostly friends and family, who still support and educate him but slowly realize the time is coming when Bod must leave the graveyard for the wider world. Picking up after the original novel’s Interlude, this volume follows graveyard-raised Bod into adolescence, as he defends classmates against school bullies, reunites with childhood friend Scarlett Perkins, fights off the Jacks-of-All-Trades, and finally defeats Jack Frost, the man who killed his family. (Aug.The adventures of Nobody Owens continue in this second volume (first volume, BCCB 11/14) of the graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel, The Graveyard Book (BCCB 10/08). It’s a treasure worth having even if the novel is already on the shelf.
The artwork sets out to entertain rather than to horrify even the initial murder scene has a certain tranquility. Owens, and the other graveyard inhabitants are dressed in evocative period costumes and drawn in ethereal blue, while Bod’s teacher and mentor Silas, about whose status the book was coy, is revealed as a vampire, with a splendid cape and a chiseled jawline.
Bod’s devoted adoptive parents, the ghosts Mr. The overall effect is remarkably unified, and the thread of the narrative is alwaysĬrystal-clear. Scott, Galen Showman, and Jill Thompson, contribute a chapter apiece. Russell conceives the look and layout of the graveyard world inhabited by Bod (short for “Nobody”), the infant who has escaped his family’s murderer six artists, including Kevin Nowlan, Stephen B.
As he did with Coraline, Russell makes the recasting of Gaiman’s Newbery-winning novel into graphic form look easy with this vastly entertaining adaptation, first in a two-book set (the second volume is due in late September).
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