Gorgeous artwork ( )

ETA: Jez, people... I'm going to say that just by glancing at the reviews for this GRAPHIC NOVEL, the reviews I see on GR are 85% for the BOOK itself. It says "Comic Book" in the title, people, come on...

I've read the book twice and seen the first season of the show (which follows the book pretty precisely). Since I have a pretty good handle on the material, I figured it would be interesting to read the comic version and see if they made similar editing decisions to the show which has had trouble condensing or entirely cutting out storylines in the interest of time and attention span.



So far, it's following pretty well, but this first issue is just the introduction to the Starks and Dany. I did like how they handled the history of Dany and her family in panel form. It's a lot of information that doesn't make a ton of sense before you know the whole story, but the images were evocative enough to make the reading of it more pleasurable than in the book.



Not a big fan of the art style... And I can already see a problem brewing because I can't tell the difference between the characters (especially in the Stark chapter) just by looking at them. I need them to use names when addressing each other because it looks like copypasta faces with slightly different hair. ( )