DUNE: The Official Movie Graphic Novel

The comic of the movie of the novel? Really?? This seems spectacularly pointless. Sure, do a comic of the original novel and unleash the visual imagination of Frank Herbert in a way that can't be captured by another medium. (And I believe there are some comics directly based on the novel.) But why try to capture the visual imagination of a film of a novel on the page? It seems pointless—and once you read it, you realize it is pointless. This vastly accelerated set of highlights with art that essentially copies film stills gives you little sense of the grandeur of either film or novel.

I’ve been looking forward to this adaptation since I first heard about the project and it didn’t disappoint.

The script does an excellent job of condensing the complexities of the movie while keeping the narrative flowing (the addition of a couple of nods to the original book that weren’t in the movie is a nice touch.)

The art work captures the look and feel of the movie’s aesthetic well and the character likenesses are all in model. The action is also well staged and paced.

It’s difficult to translate the majesty of this movie onto the printed page and the colorist understandably follows a similar pallet in setting the scenes. Unfortunately at times the color is applied too heavily and almost obscures some of the action, it’s show more especially noticeable on one double page spread illustrating one of the movie’s most iconic moments.

Overall this is one of the better comics adaptations and is a worthwhile companion to the movie. show less

A fun and entertaining Graphic Novel for the fans of the Movie. The book features the same story and the characters of the movie. Even the cast are the same.

If you love the movie for what it was, you will like this novel too but a downside i can see from here is that sometimes the great visuals and the cinematography of the movie was lost on paper,

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This is quite nicely done, but lacks both the visual grandeur of the film and the narrative detail of the book (even though of course it has more narrative detail than the film, and more visual grandeur than the book).

Veel van de settings kloppen (ik kon zien aan het plaatje waar ze waren) dat is wel bijzonder want ik las alleen het boek. Verhaal gaat veel te snel...; kan iemand zonder voorkennis dit volgen? Wat snap je van het verraad? Moeder, de oude wijze en Gurny te jong. Natuurlijk weer te veel nadruk op de vechtscènes. De ontmoeting met de fremengemeenschap gaat dan uitgebreid en bijna het einde. Dit is deel één, in 2e het leven met de Fremen. vier tekenaars.