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A review by 5c_sami
Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Eoin Colfer
3.0
This graphic novel narrates the first adventure of criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl. He discovers the fairy race, kidnaps LEP Captain Holly Short, and holds her for ransom seeking gold to save his father. The fairy race, however, plans to avoid giving in to the ransom and seeks first to save Holly and find themselves constantly bested by Artemis.
While I absolutely adore Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, I was less than enthused with the graphic novel. Mostly because I don't like graphic novels, but also because in putting this story into a graphic novel, Eoin's masterful way of creating characters that are not only physically vivid, but emotionally and mentally vivid, is lost to the need to shorten and remove much of the inner dialogue. Also, I feel that many of the portrayals of the characters took creative liberties that were a bit much. For example, Foaly the centaur probably should have been a fairly traditional centaur, but he ended up being a creature with hooves at the tips of his fingers and a severely strange face. Another aspect of the illustrations that vexed me a bit was that Artemis was portrayed with brown eyes, and not deep blue. This may seem like a small detail, but his blue eyes are one of the things that gives him a chilling appearance and that was lost with the brown eyes.
While I absolutely adore Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl, I was less than enthused with the graphic novel. Mostly because I don't like graphic novels, but also because in putting this story into a graphic novel, Eoin's masterful way of creating characters that are not only physically vivid, but emotionally and mentally vivid, is lost to the need to shorten and remove much of the inner dialogue. Also, I feel that many of the portrayals of the characters took creative liberties that were a bit much. For example, Foaly the centaur probably should have been a fairly traditional centaur, but he ended up being a creature with hooves at the tips of his fingers and a severely strange face. Another aspect of the illustrations that vexed me a bit was that Artemis was portrayed with brown eyes, and not deep blue. This may seem like a small detail, but his blue eyes are one of the things that gives him a chilling appearance and that was lost with the brown eyes.