more thoughts on the Vess Earthsea

[psocoptera]

I'm picky, we know this, but Vess's character designs and maybe general art style just weren't a good match for the Earthsea in my head. His Ged doesn't look like my Ged, he's too cartoony, he looks like a damn elf or something in the endpaper illustration. The dragons are wrong - dragons are hard, I often don't like the dragons, but I don't want these wrong ones in my eyeballs confusing me. Very tempted by the book otherwise - it's a weighty tome, there's something very satisfying about having it all in one place, I only managed to skim the final essay since the book suddenly became due back before I was ready, I'd have a copy of Firelight (and everything else) to work from and revisit and overanalyze. But those dragons! No!