ANGEL SMILE TIME #1
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iFanboy
community think?
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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This is why I should check iFanboy before visiting the comic store. Then I would’ve known that this comic is just the FUCKING episode from the tv show and I could’ve used my $4 in a far more constructive manner, like blowing my nose or wiping my ass with it. I love Angel and Smile Time is one of my all time favorite episodes so when I saw this at the shop I thought ‘Cool, it’s like Spike:Shadow Puppets. They’re doing another little story out of continuity spining off of one of my favorite episodes.’ Nope! It’s just the FUCKING same thing as the episode. It has the same dialogue and while the art is fairly nice, it’s probably not too difficult to draw a comic when all you have to do is pause a DVD and draw the picture on your screen. It’s only a step above the money grabbing laziness of those Family Guy digest sized “comics” I’ve seen filled with episode screen caps and the dialogue put into word ballons. And then when I come onto iFanboy I find that the few people that have rated it have given it an average of 5? Really? Do you work for IDW? Can you help me get a refund so that in my disgusted rage I don’t rashly attempt to summon my own demon muppet army to help burn IDW to the ground?
Art: 1 - Poor
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I imagine that if people liked the episode (it *was* a fantastic episode) then they would rate the adaptation highly.
@conor Granted, but it’s not like say the Dark Tower adaptations, where translating to a comic from what was just a written story before changes the way one absorbs the story or how the story is able to be told. The first Dark Tower trade is pretty much book 4 of the Dark Tower series with the framing story chopped off, but even without the element of the story being told through pictures as well as words now, Peter David finds a way of giving the story a new and interesting narrartor which spices the story up with a slightly new perspective. The dialogue in the Smile Time comic is exactly what they say in the episode. There is nothing new here. And unlike other adaptations that hew closely to the source material and allow new audiences to discover stories they normally wouldn’t have because it’s not in the usual format of entertainment that they enjoy, this is a story that is in the middle of the 5th season of a TV show and contains mid-story beats of series and season spannnig plots, so anybody that isn’t familiar with the show is likely going to be confused. My ire at it and people rating it high comes from the fact that this doesn’t feel like an adaptation, but a copy and paste job.
@bakakaba – Have you ever read comic book adaptations of movies? That’s pretty much what they are, the exact story from the source material in a new medium. It sounds like you just don’t like that kind of thing.
@conor – Haven’t read any like that, no. Since they didn’t seem to use the new medium in any signifcant way imho, it just feels like a grab for cash devoid of any artistic reasons. I understand IDW is a company and they want to make money, but there are other ways to do movie or tv comics, like the Starscream Transformers thing which tells a story inbetweeen the first movie and the future sequel I believe. I didn’t read that, and so can’t comment on the quality of it, but I’d rather see that kind of material. It bothers me because instead of IDW using money and talent to work on a Spike Shadow Puppets sequel for instance or more stuff dealing with After the Fall(which I’ve been loving), they put it into this. If it’s something you like, great, I’m just irked that I spent 4 dollars on this that I could have spent on something else.