His characters have some wonderful one-liners and his characters' conversations definitely almost always pass the Bechdel Test, so yey. PTerry is good at dialogue, but he isn't brilliant. What you rely on in a comicbookgraphicnovel is the dialogue. His words flow like silk over melting butter-or other such things that have little or no friction-and as a nice side-effect of this, the stories develop in a lovely way that has all that stuff we love in a good story, like excellent pace and all the words in the right place. But the way he tells them is one of the most sublime things in the literary world. His stories are top notch but they're never excellent, brilliant, superbly thought-out or anything much different to what you get elsewhere. So, with my pathetic knowledge and experience of comicbookgraphicnovels and my superb knowledge and great experience of Terry Pratchett, let's get started.Įverything that Terry is great at can't really be translated in to pictures. Same thing, right? Nope.Īnd secondly, I love Terry Pratchett and will read anything with his name on it, even those terrible sci-fi books he wrote with that other dude. I am not a comic book person, but I love illustrated editions of books. I have only read four comic books (or graphic novels? I swear I don't know the difference, I am not taking the piss) before and those were sexist and pointless.
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