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Title	:	Guards! Guards!: The Graphic Novel (Discworld Graphic Novels #3)
Author	:	Stephen Briggs
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 122 pages
Published	:	2000 by Gollancz
Categories	:	Fantasy. Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Humor

Guards! Guards!: The Graphic Novel (Discworld Graphic Novels #3)

Stephen Briggs

Paperback | Pages: 122 pages

Rating: 4.33 | 2319 Users | 54 Reviews

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A couple of things before we start.

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. I am not a comic book person, but I love illustrated editions of books. Same thing, right? Nope.

And 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.

So, with my pathetic knowledge and experience of comicbookgraphicnovels and my superb knowledge and great experience of Terry Pratchett, let's get started.

Everything that Terry is great at can't really be translated in to pictures. His stories are top notch but they're never excellent, brilliant, superbly thought-out or anything much different to what you get elsewhere. But the way he tells them is one of the most sublime things in the literary world. 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.

What you rely on in a comicbookgraphicnovel is the dialogue. PTerry is good at dialogue, but he isn't brilliant. His characters have some wonderful one-liners and his characters' conversations definitely almost always pass the Bechdel Test, so yey. But this particular comicbookgraphicnovel didn't really have much except the wonderful one-liners, and one-liner after one-liner is just annoying. Like a comedian dying on stage who resorts to insulting the hecklers instead of observing.

I did like the drawings. I thought Vimes was pretty spot on but I often found it hard to decide who was who. You have to figure that out for yourself. If I didn't know who Vimes was I probably still wouldn't know who he was having finished this. I definitely wouldn't like him (read: be madly in love with him and imagine him slightly younger and better looking in my head) after reading him in this. We get his thoughts but we just don't get his proper thoughts. Am I making any sense? I don't think I am.

I just don't really get it. Really.


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ISBN:	0575070714 (ISBN13: 9780575070714)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Discworld Graphic Novels #3

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Ratings: 4.33 From 2319 Users | 54 Reviews

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Apparently 8 yrs is long enough for me to have forgotten that not only did I read this book, but I own it, too. It stays fantastically true to the novel & any Pratchett fan should pick it up to read it. I loved the illustrations & Briggs did a wonderful job bringing Pratchett's humor to this medium.

A great story with excellent illustrations. This is definitely one I know I'll re-read in the future.

This isn't a review of Guards Guards per se, a book that I've read a few times and am fond of, but of the graphic novel. The art here by Graham Higgins is nice, very different from the Josh Kirby stuff that I grew up with, but fitting for the grimy world of Ankh-Morpork and its inhabitants. The only problem is the same problem that afflicts all adaptations of Terry Pratchett: namely that so much of the humour comes from the narrative, the description and the footnotes, much of which is lost

Should read a novel format - I don't think that Pratchett translates well into comic - too much seems to be lost. Sadly, the art doesn't make up for it.Honestly, read it while waiting for my phone to charge in the library. Don't think I would have picked this up at a store.

This, I always think, is where Terry Pratchett decided that he could stretch himself and write good, Jonathon Swift style satire. Tentatively at first he gives us the beginnings of the characters of Sam Vimes, Fred Colon, Nobby Nobbs and the unbelievable Carrot Ironfoundason. They are what will become the Night Watch and finally the City Watch. I had always been amused by the Pratchett novels about the witches and wizards and enjoyed Pratchett's obvious writing skill, horrible puns and whacky

A hilarious world where people know they're in a story, afraid of attacking a single bold unarmed man for fear he might be the hero, or try to make a crossbow shot even more impossible so that they might actually make it.This follows a set of guards as they investigate the reemergence of a grand dragon, and then the aftermath once that dragon takes over their world.

A fun book. Drawings a bit rough in places but the humour is intact.