USA Today: The Dreaded LMI Comic Book Prequel

[TΛPETRVE]

Maybe something like this?

[sweetgirl]

poor fella

[theguy1991]

I'd get the comic if JAL wrote some of it and was getting money and credit for it, but since he's not.....F#CK that $H!T

[N.R. Gasan]

It's not a terrible idea. I'm glad they're going with Abby rather than Eli. Still, it's only right that JAL should sign off on it; at least he should be compensated $$$-wise. After all, without JAL...well, none of us would be here. Hmmm...sounds kinda ominous, doesn't it? ::Twilight Zone theme::

[gymmy64]

I don't plan on buying this, but I am curious. Fortunately, there are other ways of obtaining such things...

[gary13136]

I read JAL was very much against this, i can't find the quote anywhere, but he says something like:

"can they do that? i hope not, and if they can i'll fight it."

He was against it. But then he learned that the rights he had sold including the right to do this comic book. And when you affix your name to a legal document, well--you know.

[morti-viventi]

"Our monsters make Elmo look tame."

[Barb]

Oh, God no.

It's one thing to take JAL's two works and remake them to suit the taste of an American audience. I mean, at least Reeves contacted JAL a couple of times. It's quite another to write something that doesn't have the artist's approval just for the sake of a tie-in.

[Barb]

You know what annoys me most about this post? The idea that some comics company, fueled with Anti-Twilight hate, thinks it can use Eli as a pawn in making vampires evil and scary again. Now I'm not a Twlight fan, but I also believe that no one owns a sub-genre, such as vampire stories. Not Twilight fans, not Buffy fans, not horror fanboys. An author totally has the right to recreate the vampire mythos in ways that subvert the expectations of the genre. If that weren't so, we wouldn't have the book or movie of LTROI. The idea that vampires are only vampires if they're this or that seems to me to be a de facto attempt to censor what an author can or can't do with a sub-genre.

To me, LTROI actually re-opened the "vein" of how we can re-imagine the vampire mythos. I hope that authors choose be inspired by LTROI, to take the book as a confirmation that they have the right, perhaps even the obligation, to really use their noggin to make something different, something newer, something fresher in their genre creations.

The idea that horror fanboys feel a need to pull vampires back into the same old horror conventions, the same old cliches, seems to me to be 360 degrees from everything that LTROI is attempting to do.

I honor JAL and Tomas Alfredson's individual and collective visions concerning the subgenre. They are truly innovative people. They've advanced the cause of creativity in the medium of supernatural tales.

In comparison, Dark Horse's vision seems to be reactionary and a real step backwards.

[TΛPETRVE]

The idea that horror fanboys feel a need to pull vampires back into the same old horror conventions, the same old cliches, seems to me to be 360 degrees from everything that LTROI is attempting to do.

360° - Sure ?