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The headline piece, The War of the Worlds, has been done in graphic form before - and given several sequels in the same format. This version is brave in truncating *that* opening speech, and seems to me to be a more honest approach to the story, giving a more equal balance to the human and alien dramas, however internal, and lessening, for instance, Thunderchild and some of the more obvious scenes. One still hears Burton and David Essex, of course.
So while nothing here is exactly worth cutting out and framing (heaven forfend), nor opens up a new world of sci-fi drama to the initiate, this collection tidily reminds one of compilations of old, and puts a graphic spin on some interesting little tales. It certainly, with the Forster and Wells, has an eye for the noteworthy, if it quite can't replicate it itself.
I must thank the publishers for our review copy.
The Graphic Classics franchise started with a Poe edition - making that direct opposition for [[Eye Classics: Nevermore - A Graphic Novel Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe, Various, Dan Whitehead (Editor)|Nevermore]]. For more adapted sci-fi, we enjoyed the [[The Twilight Zone: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street by Rod Serling|The Twilight Zone]] books. You might also enjoy [[Girls Volume 1: Conception by Jonathan Luna and Joshua Luna]] and [[The Dead Assassin by Vaughn Entwhistle]].
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