Why turn a novel into a comic book? I don’t mean that question to dismiss Ender’s Game but to frame the discussion. There’s a point in adapting movies… advertising. But to adapt a successful novel?
It’s an interesting idea and Christopher Yost does fine. He basically keeps the novel’s dialogue, just cuts down the scenes, leaving only the salient events.
The real star is Pasquel Ferry. The art is stylized and design-heavy, but it’s always interesting. He mixes different future styles, not really creating but throwing it all in a pot. Ferry’s Ender’s Game looks like old magazine ads for the future. Visually, the comic is always engaging.
Between Yost and Ferry, the violence is handled half well, half not. Ferry can’t illustrate the psychological violence and Yost is pretty constrained too… he only does dialogue. He can’t sell the fear.
It’s an interesting project, but not particularly compelling.
