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A review by stephgraves
Supernatural: The Dogs of Edinburgh by Dustin Nguyen, Brian Wood
2.0
I wanted to like this.
But I really couldn't.
Narratively, it's sort of a mess--the jumps in the story leave holes that aren't very logical and can't be figured out from context clues.
And where good art can distract you from narrative holes in the graphic novel form, here... well, not so much. Some of the art is nice, but the thick lines and lack of atmosphere are not my thing. Plus, both Sam and Dean act out of character, and bear very little likeness to the actors, AND there's the whole bit one could quibble about where this takes place while Sam is at Stanford, during which time Sam & Dean weren't speaking, so it's not very canonically compliant, either. (Even if you read the later bits as after Sam was at college, still, he has to call Dean as they aren't together, which happens very seldom in the show--they have basically been inseparable since Sam left college, minus that stint when Dean was in Hell and later when Sam was soulless.)
The other Supernatural graphic novels were really pretty good, so I hate to be so disappointed by this one. Yet, I am.
But I really couldn't.
Narratively, it's sort of a mess--the jumps in the story leave holes that aren't very logical and can't be figured out from context clues.
And where good art can distract you from narrative holes in the graphic novel form, here... well, not so much. Some of the art is nice, but the thick lines and lack of atmosphere are not my thing. Plus, both Sam and Dean act out of character, and bear very little likeness to the actors, AND there's the whole bit one could quibble about where this takes place while Sam is at Stanford, during which time Sam & Dean weren't speaking, so it's not very canonically compliant, either. (Even if you read the later bits as after Sam was at college, still, he has to call Dean as they aren't together, which happens very seldom in the show--they have basically been inseparable since Sam left college, minus that stint when Dean was in Hell and later when Sam was soulless.)
The other Supernatural graphic novels were really pretty good, so I hate to be so disappointed by this one. Yet, I am.