EW Sez Escapist Not Escapist Enough
In the February 13, 2004 edition of
Entertainment
Weekly (#751), the subscribers-only supplement "Listen2This"
covers some comics. For the second time, the comics section is
only a
single page, so only four comics
are reviewed, and there's no "a comics creator discusses his favorite
comic" feature. The four comics reviewed are:
- The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist: C-
- The Pulse: A-
- Mother, Come Home: A+
- Plastic Man: A
Upcoming comics mentioned are:
The Punisher: Born,
Silent Hill: Dying Inside,
Savage Dragon: Worlds at
War, and
Van Helsing's Night Off.
The review of
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
struck me as strange: The comic is basically criticized
for not being the novel it was based on. I suppose it's hard to
ignore the source material when examining a spin-off, but I would think
a reviewer would want to review a work on its own merits, not on how
well it captures the context of the original novel.
