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By Terry Pratchett<\/strong> & Graham Higgins<\/strong> (VG Graphics\/Gollancz) Us old codgers have always maintained that a good comic needs a good artist and this superb adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s fourth Discworld<\/em> novel proves that point. The Discworld is a flat planet supported on the backs of four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle swimming across the universe. Magic works there and the people are much too much like us. This, of course, makes it an ideal location for spleen-venting, satire, slapstick and social commentary\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n Scripted by the author and brilliantly illustrated by Graham Higgins it tells a complex and darkly witty tale of Death (big grim chap, carries a scythe) and the hapless, literal-minded, sort-of-useless young goof Mort, whom he hires as his apprentice.<\/p>\n Of course that’s not all there is to it, with sub-plots including an orphaned princess and her dangerously ambitious guardian, Death’s vacation, the daughter he adopted and the mystery of his most peculiar servant Albert to season a very impressive spin on a very familiar myth.<\/p>\n Higgin’s light, dry touch adds volumes of texture to the mix and the leaden slavishness of the first graphic adaptation (The Colour of Magic<\/strong> <\/a>– ISBN: 0-552-13945-9) is utterly forgotten in a superb mix of Pratchett’s acerbic dialogue and the artist’s deft sense of timing and comedy pacing, which is most reminiscent of Hunt Emerson.<\/p>\n If you have to have adaptations of great novels this is how it should be done.<\/p>\n Text \u00c2\u00a9 1994 Terry and Lyn Pratchett. Illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 1994 Graham Higgins. All Rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Terry Pratchett & Graham Higgins (VG Graphics\/Gollancz) ISBN: 0-575-05699-1 Us old codgers have always maintained that a good comic needs a good artist and this superb adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s fourth Discworld novel proves that point. The Discworld is a flat planet supported on the backs of four elephants standing on the back of … <\/p>\n
\nISBN: 0-575-05699-1<\/p>\n