The Road to Woodbury - Rise of the Govenor Sequel

[Wasteland Jack]

(11-09-2012 01:18 AM)Irish Daigle Wrote:  The comics have always bugged me because the way people talked is always just a little off.

I think this is only natural based on the medium the storyteller is using. I can't say I have read the Walking Dead comics or books, but I can only imagine it is the story that grabs everyone, not just the hacking and slashing of Z's. Imagine having to put the detail of a Stephen King novel into a 32 page paneled medium. A lot of the dialogue has to be truncated and reworded to keep the essence of the story and convey it to the reader. I have always respected comic writers in their ability to create huge universes with massive restrictions on how they can deliver not only the story, but also the nuances that only a prose novel can.

I'll have to look into both of these. Does anyone know if I have to read the comics first to understand the context in either of these two books?