tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post4028222322512201356..comments2024-01-28T22:17:29.551-08:00Comments on Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine: Pappyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-1442039511616797802013-08-10T22:02:09.519-07:002013-08-10T22:02:09.519-07:00Vastly different from the novel, actually. But agr...Vastly different from the novel, actually. But agreed, with seven pages characters and important references need to be cut. They really could've built a more appropriate final frame, though.<br /><br />The Castle of Otranto at <a href="http://casualdebris.blogspot.ca/2013/08/horace-walpole-castle-of-otranto-1764.html" rel="nofollow">Casual Debris</a>Casual Debrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08098608670682517783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-9975014449251945342010-05-17T07:43:52.508-07:002010-05-17T07:43:52.508-07:00Though I did not care much for this "adaptati...Though I did not care much for this "adaptation" of the novel, I have to wonder if there is any way it could have been done any better in a mere 7 pages.<br /><br />Cheers!<br /><br />Steven G. Willis<br /><a href="http://www.xowcomics.com/" rel="nofollow">XOWComics.com</a>nyrdyvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14160524980681398010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-91717826090777193082010-03-15T19:39:41.312-07:002010-03-15T19:39:41.312-07:00Oh hey, upcoming (as I write) on BBC radio - Tuesd...Oh hey, upcoming (as I write) on BBC radio - Tuesday 16th March '10, 1130 GMT:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rb29b<br /><br />"A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto<br /><br />"With echoing dungeons, sighing ghosts, terrified virgins and a giant helmet falling from the sky, Rory McGrath guides us round [the] first gothic castle in English fiction."Robert Carnegiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11868446481195390009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-64461174722152221242010-03-10T14:29:04.908-08:002010-03-10T14:29:04.908-08:00I haven't yet read the novel myself, but accor...I haven't yet read the novel myself, but according to Wikipedia the student's friend, there are some differences... is the bit with the ghost and the painting from GHOSTBUSTERS II? Okay, DORIAN GRAY. Oh Basingstoke - RUDDIGORE.<br /><br />Or is it the point of the exercise here to appreciate the novelties of interpretation?Robert Carnegiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11868446481195390009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-77336556490429542092010-03-08T16:42:27.969-08:002010-03-08T16:42:27.969-08:00That's really wild, Pappy. Wonder if anyone ev...That's really wild, Pappy. Wonder if anyone ever did Mysteries of Udolpho or The Monk in comic form? Classic Gothic Comics.Charles R. Rutledgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14265387377510655973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-37367581921858447262010-03-08T04:29:57.935-08:002010-03-08T04:29:57.935-08:00Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Broadway writers, d...Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Broadway writers, did a song, circa 1960, about <i>Reader's Digest</i> versions of novels. The verse I remember is about <i>Gone With the Wind</i>:<br /><br />"Scarlett O'Hara's a spoiled pet,<br />She wants everything that she can get,<br />The one thing she can't get is Rhett,<br /> The End."<br /><br />That's how I feel about this short-short version of <i>The Castle of Otranto</i>.<br /><br />Maybe if <i>Classics Illustrated</i> had stayed in business long enough a more detailed adaptation could have been done. It isn't a long novel.Pappyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977289662431694607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31723906.post-24504581588001628882010-03-08T01:41:26.357-08:002010-03-08T01:41:26.357-08:00Not bad, but it reads like a 200 page novel conden...Not bad, but it reads like a 200 page novel condensed to seven pages...kind of uneven and stilted. Kind of odd, but I like the way the artist drew the 'mistress', and the panel at the end where the giant ghost is bursting through the crumbling castle.Michael Wurlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03096630019811360269noreply@blogger.com