sequels or sequelae
Oct. 14th, 2018 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraOk, look, I *know* that a surefire way to avoid the vexation of "why are they remaking/revisiting this thing that did not need messing with" is to just NOT READ/WATCH THE NEW THING, like, hey, I already know you can't step in the same stream twice, why do I keep getting my feet wet. AND YET. Splish. Splish.
The Power of the Dark Crystal Vol. 1, comic based on an unproduced movie script. I found this both a bit over-the-top (in a very normal comics way, where there are lots of bombastic captions) and a bit hard to follow, and also at odds with some stuff I thought I remembered from the movie, although maybe I'm wrong or it gets explained in later volumes. But there's some good art (plus the phenomenal alternate covers by Sana Takeda, which is how I come to have heard of this in the first place), and the basic conflict they've come up with seemed like a reasonable way to set up the plot. I believe the series concluded in the spring and both Vol 2 and the concluding Vol 3 are 2018 works, which I could read if I wanted to read more 2018 comics. I don't know that I do want that, especially... I think what I really want is for my kids to get old enough for the movie, or maybe just to watch it again myself. Which I could do. :)
The Power of the Dark Crystal Vol. 1, comic based on an unproduced movie script. I found this both a bit over-the-top (in a very normal comics way, where there are lots of bombastic captions) and a bit hard to follow, and also at odds with some stuff I thought I remembered from the movie, although maybe I'm wrong or it gets explained in later volumes. But there's some good art (plus the phenomenal alternate covers by Sana Takeda, which is how I come to have heard of this in the first place), and the basic conflict they've come up with seemed like a reasonable way to set up the plot. I believe the series concluded in the spring and both Vol 2 and the concluding Vol 3 are 2018 works, which I could read if I wanted to read more 2018 comics. I don't know that I do want that, especially... I think what I really want is for my kids to get old enough for the movie, or maybe just to watch it again myself. Which I could do. :)
