Adapted by Faye Perozich, Travis Moore, Michael Halbleib, & Daerick Gross (Titan Books)
ISBN: 978-1-84023-246-2
For awhile Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat tales were a graphic novel phenomenon, but nearly a decade later do those adaptations stand up on their own?
This somewhat plain and predictable package would rather suggest that they don’t, although that might just be due to the lackluster original plot as much as the rushed and flimsy art and dialogue.
Lestat has apparently long harboured the desire to be human again and feel the sun on his face, so when a psychic bandit offers to trade bodies with him for a week or so he ignores common sense and the advice of his few true friends and gets played for an altogether different sort of sucker. Then it’s simply a brief hunt to find his body and get back into it to pad out this remarkably tension-free horror-less drama.
The art too is weak and insubstantial despite the presence of the excellent Daerick Gross as part of the team. I’m not sure what Rice fans made of this book but it’s certainly a big disappointment in terms of graphic narrative. Unless you’re desperate this is something you can live a long time – if not forever – without.
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