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I adore the book Neverwhere. I adore the BBC
mini-series Neverwhere. I am still unsure as to
what I think of the comic book adaptation of it.
The story is still pretty much intact. Richard
Mayhew, a normal average guy, helps a bleeding
mysterious and dirty looking girl he finds on the
street, and gets sucked from his perfectly normal
life into her world, which is much darker, much
stranger, and leaves him completely unable to go
back to his normal life.
It's the art that leaves me in a quandary. From
the book itself I had a very clear thought of how
I thought the characters should look like. While
I love the mini-series I still think that Richard
Mayhew, the main character, looks a little too
much like Paul McCartney. I find myself quite
frequently torn between thinking "That's not how I
pictured it, but it's cool," and "That's not how I
pictured it and it's kind of stupid."
For example Croup and Vandemar, the two most
prominent bad guys, don't look like what I
expected, but they look cool. Lady Door, the
young woman who is the only member of her family
to escape getting murdered by Croup and Vandemar,
is nothing like I imagined. She looks cool and
stylized and at the same time she looks very
freaky. The problem with this is she's described
as looking very young and innocent in the book.
She doesn't look young or innocent in the drawing.
Though I both love and hate the keyhole tattoo
like thing she has over her right eye. It's cool
in that her family is openers. They can open
doors to anywhere with their minds. It's also
kind of hokey and annoying.
So far I'm continuing to pick up issues of it. If
you've never read the book or seen the BBC
miniseries, definitely pick up the comics. It's a
cool story. If you've read the book or seen the
miniseries, be prepared for something not quite
what you imagined visually.
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