Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles: The Authorized Adaptation

This is an OK adaptation of The Martian Chronicles, but the strength of the original stories is in Bradbury's language, so once you've stripped the majority of that away what you're left with is much diminished.

The artwork is fine and would work OK with something more plot-driven, but it failed to convey to me the pain, grief, loss and nostalgic yearning of the original. It would have taken something special and amazing to convey that artistically, and Calero just didn't do it.

If you haven't read the book this is based on, and if you like this graphic novel at all, then do yourself a favour and read the original: one of the best story collections, regardless of genre, ever written.

Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles is a classic and his words are here. But the images in this adaptation are not always clear, though they are moody enough.

You have to do some serious editing and compressing to fit enough of the book into here. Wouldn't call it a must-have unlesss you're a serious Bradbury collector.

When I won [b:Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation|9825897|Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes The Authorized Adaptation|Ray Bradbury|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312076084s/9825897.jpg|14577834] I didn't realize this book was being thrown in too. Boy am I glad it was! The visuals and layout of the text meshed well. These stories are so haunting. It stays with me long after I pass the last page of the book.

:( I love The Martian Chronicles, and so was very excited to see this graphic adaptation. But the art style didn't work for me, and the coloring was flat and vaguely muddied.

Another okay adaptation but I prefer letting Bradbury's poetic prose create the images in my mind.