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The Griff: A Graphic Novel (2011)

by Christopher Moore(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061977527 (ISBN13: 9780061977527)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

review 1: I...I like Christopher Moore. I really do. Like all the other reviewers here, I feel the need to preface this with an apology. In general, Moore is clever, witty and charming - this story is none of those things. The narrative passes at such a break-neck pace that I was perpetually in a state of "Wait, wait? Where did that come from? Who are they? What? Different aliens? Huh? Oh, it's over now." Everything happened so abruptly that there was never time to let things sink in, or let the characters develop. In a crime which is particularly heinous in Moore's case, the characters are bland and forgettable to the point of insult. A dopey skater boy and a sexy punk video game designer? Nothing dates Moore more than when he tries to appeal to a younger generation; t... morehe characters felt forced, like my dad trying to sound cool.Like the other reviewers, I found the art appealing, but that was about it. The Griff is strikingly devoid of any of Moore's magic.
review 2: Earth is invaded by alien dragons, who slaughter 6 billion people while leaving the infrastructure intact. Then for no apparent reason, the aliens' spaceship crashes off the Florida coast. Three improbably attractive young adults make their way down the east coast to find out what happened.The Griff reads like someone took a novel and illustrated random pages. There's a marked lack of continuity between panels. It feels poorly researched; little thought was put into the alien biologies or the military hardware or the logistics of interstate travel while under constant assault by giant flying alien carnivores. Moore's trademark humor appears in brilliant bursts, and I laughed out loud a few times. Rosero's art occasionally looks wonderful but his (her?) characters are inconsistent, facial features are different from one panel to the next. The characters themselves are a lot of fun: schwag whore, soldier/makeup artist(!), video game-designer babe. Moore wrote in his preface that this story was just too visual to be a text novel and would fare better as a movie or graphic novel. He was wrong. less

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