babylon 5 comics

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

Having just read 'To Dream In The City Of Sorrows' I'd like to say I'd love to see this story converted to a comic or film. It would also tie into 'In Valen's Name' quite beautifully.

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I'd love a Dave Mckeen B5 Comic, He works from photographs alot and would have 5 seasons 5 films, Crusade and Legend of the Rangers to access stills to work from. It would have both a painterly and cinematic style. And would look alot differnent from any other B5 comic. He also did alot of Sandman cover art which links into B5 via Neil Gaiman.

[starfighter]

babylon 5 comic art

with regards to poor or unsuitable art. bad subject as eveyone as different tastes in art.

ok who do you get to draw them
mr templesmith did a great job on 30 days of night don`t think it would quite work with b5
messers franks, deodato, romita jr all have done great work with jms but could they pull of a run on b5
how about clayton crain is art on venom / carnage is some of the best interior art i`ve seen for a long while.
lastly why not try rob prior great air brush artist. if you need to see b5 characters plus other scifi faces check out his short lived series from`98 called lost heroes
the list of artist could go on and on evryone as their favorites. personally i think you have to get an artist who fits the style of writing and the plot sadly that is not always the case, as for thr writer there can be only the person who created it in this case jms.
i would like him to put pen to paper and go back to the b5 universe maybe with greg land in tow one great story and it wouldn`t be to bad to look at.

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

Splinter of the minds eye, the first Zahn trilogy and Shadows of the empire have all been both novels and comics.

It would be good to see the best of the B5 tie in novels go the same way. While we are waiting for some fresh stories.

[Dr Maturin]

Originally posted by frulad
Admittedly much of the early Star Wars novels were rubbish. Courtship of Princess Leia anyone? The Crystal Star?

But let's exclude Timothy Zahn from the group. His three novels were very good and are what got the whole publishing ball rolling, for better or worse.

Zahn was the first author is the SW resurgence, and he was great, but he made a lot of mistakes. The books were great, but still riddled with mistakes here and there, and he needed some editorial assistance from SW aficianados, but when he wrote his first trilogy, that help wasn't there. He did ignore their suggestions to leave alone mentions of the Clone Wars.

The only "great" SW authors in my book are Zahn, Stackpole, Allston and Stover. The company seems to like Troy Denning, but I think he is highly overrated. A.C. Crispin did some good work for them, but she never came back.

[frulad]

Originally posted by Z'ha'dumDweller
Well, that was pure sloppiness, just like most of the SW books were. Lucasfilm (before Lucas Licensing and Lucas Books were formed) hired a lot of ST and fantasy writers (and ones that weren't very good) in the beginning, and had no kind of editorial control over any of it (by choice, apparently.) Now they seem to be getting better, but they still hire some writers who are not great and some who a majority of readers despise.

Admittedly much of the early Star Wars novels were rubbish. Courtship of Princess Leia anyone? The Crystal Star?

But let's exclude Timothy Zahn from the group. His three novels were very good and are what got the whole publishing ball rolling, for better or worse.

[Dr Maturin]

<<Given the first several B5 books, I don't have a problem with being unattended to. If what comes from waiting is the quality of the three trilogies, I'll wait as long as it takes.>>

Well, that was pure sloppiness, just like most of the SW books were. Lucasfilm (before Lucas Licensing and Lucas Books were formed) hired a lot of ST and fantasy writers (and ones that weren't very good) in the beginning, and had no kind of editorial control over any of it (by choice, apparently.) Now they seem to be getting better, but they still hire some writers who are not great and some who a majority of readers despise.

I started on The Cestus Deception by Stephen Barnes this past Summer, and I couldn't finish the third chapter. No hook, no interesting dialogue, no nothing. He is an example of a new boring writer. An example of LL hiring an old boring writer is when they got Steve Perry last year. We actually got into a flame war (and one that HE started when someone made on offhand remark about something they didn't like in his Shadows of the Empire) with the man in 1999. Jerk.

Really, really great writers are few and far between, but the ones that do exist probably would love to do B5.

JMS did great with the "Big Three" trilogies and TSW and TDitCoS, so there is no reason we can't have our cake and eat it, too. It just takes a little work. Cavelos, David and Keyes were excellent choices to write the "definitive" novels.

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I agree, that said I thought 'In Valen's Name' was quite well drawn.

[Jan]

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh
And the B5 universe is so beautifully visual, I'd like a few pictures with the story.

I enjoyed the stories of the comics but the art was...really lousy, actually. As far as I was concerned, none of the characters looked right. Maybe now that B5 has more of a reputation it would get better artists.

Jan

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I wish that the novel storys would be adapted at least into graphic novel form.

I have so many books that I'm trying to read that I'm not sure I have the time to read all the tie ins.

And the B5 universe is so beautifully visual, I'd like a few pictures with the story.

[Jan]

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh
When you look at the tonnes of Dr Who, Trek, Buffy and Star Wars books out there, we B5 fans are very unattended to.

Given the first several B5 books, I don't have a problem with being unattended to. If what comes from waiting is the quality of the three trilogies, I'll wait as long as it takes.

Jan

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I agree totally Jan.

When you look at the tonnes of Dr Who, Trek, Buffy and Star Wars books out there, we B5 fans are very unattended to.

[Jan]

Re: Yippee!

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh
I can't wait!

How long has it been since In Valen's Name?

According to the Lurker's Guide, the three issues of In Valen's Name come out Jan-March 1998. Don't know about the graphic novel version.

(shorter answer: Too Long!!)
Jan

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

Yippee!

I can't wait!

How long has it been since In Valen's Name?

[Garibaldi's Hair]

JMS has now revealed that this is back on the front burner as a 100 page graphic novel.

See here ...

Linkie!

Looking forward to this.