Guards! Guards! A Discworld Graphic Novel
by Terry Pratchett, Graham Higgins (Illustrator)
Discworld: Graphic Novels (4), Discworld (Graphic Novels — Graphic Novel 4)
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Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a 70-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries. But there's more - now we get to see Ankh-Morpork in all its glory; illustrations so vibrant you can practically smell and taste the denizens of this delightful city show more (although with Corporal Nobbs, you might rather wish you didn't have to). All rendered in painstaking detail by Graham Higgins (who feels he now knows altogether far too much about the murky goings on inside Nobbs' head). show lessTags
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My favourite Terry Pratchett characters as a Graphic Novel, what's not to like!
Not much to be honest, it brings the Guards to life in a much better way than the forthcoming BBC America adaptation seems to be doing! Obviously the story is trimmed but the humour and characterisations are still there. Not as great as the book but still a very good version.
Not much to be honest, it brings the Guards to life in a much better way than the forthcoming BBC America adaptation seems to be doing! Obviously the story is trimmed but the humour and characterisations are still there. Not as great as the book but still a very good version.
I don't believe I would have known what was going on if I hadn't read the novel. Only Nobby looked like I imagined him, Vimes looked immensely wrong, but I liked how Lady Sybil was drawn.
I'm not rating this book as i never finished it, i get over halfway through before giving up on it mostly due to it seeming to be to slow, it did have its funny moments but i just couldn't finish it.
A very solid opus of the Discworld. The first novel from the City Watch story arc makes quite an impression. A mix of fabulous tongue-in-cheek, quirky humor with many themes being covered and some more moving and solemn tone towards the end of the book. The storyline may have been perfected as it seems that some story arcs do not mingle particularly well with each other and some do not necessarily bring an interesting ending or the fun we could expect.
Oct 17, 2021French
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Terry Pratchett was on born April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield, United Kingdom. He left school at the age of 17 to work on his local paper, the Bucks Free Press. While with the Press, he took the National Council for the Training of Journalists proficiency class. He also worked for the Western Daily Press and the Bath Chronicle. He produced a series show more of cartoons for the monthly journal, Psychic Researcher, describing the goings-on at the government's fictional paranormal research establishment, Warlock Hall. In 1980, he was appointed publicity officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board with responsibility for three nuclear power stations. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. His first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. He became a full-time author in 1987. He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime including The Dark Side of the Sun, Strata, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Truckers, Diggers, Wings, Dodger, Raising Steam, Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales, and The Shephard's Crown. He was diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2007. He was knighted for services to literature in 2009 and received the World Fantasy award for life achievement in 2010. He died on March 12, 2015 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Guards! Guards! A Discworld Graphic Novel
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- 2000
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- TERRY: To everyone who died in the making of this Big Comic
GRAHAM: My parents; my teachers Ken Jacobs and Michael Abbott, for illuminating the world of words and pictures; and Mickey Jupp for the fine tunes. - Disambiguation notice
- This is the graphic novel adaptation of Guards! Guards! please do not combine with the original novel.
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