3/17/2024 0 Comments Percy jackson graphic novel vol 5![]() ![]() ![]() While sympathetically handled, it’s most noticeable in the abrupt shifts of scene, when characters appear with little set-up or introduction. The art is compensation for the contraction job Robert Venditti has to carry out on the over 300 page original novel to compress it into under half the page count. His designs are spectacular, from the mechanical steam-powered bulls seen early on to the brutes of the finale. Futaki has a natural talent for laying out an exciting page, and if the leading cast are impossibly beautiful, that could be explained away as a side effect of being sired by Gods. His glorious naturalism delivering convincing teenagers has actually improved. The garish Frazetta-lite cover doesn’t do any justice to the fantastic interior artwork by Attila Futaki. Percy, though, was one of the very few children into which the power of his father flowed. The Lightning Thief revealed his true heritage as one of many children sired by the ancient Greco/Roman Gods of old, still with us, and still rutting. Until that first book Percy Jackson considered himself a normal American teenager, albeit one with a missing father. Percy’s true heritage was revealed within Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and it’s presumed no-one has come here unaware of the relevant elements. This second graphic novel adaptation of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series brings a change of title, appending ‘The Olympians’. ![]()
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