I actually don't read comic books as a category. It's difficult for me. The fonts are always sub-optimal, the fact that text is scattered in blobs all over the page makes it hard to follow, I don't interact well with graphics, and on the whole, reading comics is _work_ as much as reading regular print is a pleasure.
In the case of Serenity, the three comics are sufficiently small and thin and not-dense that they read quickly even for me. (A couple of times I had to double back and make sure I caught something, but since there was little enough there, it wasn't _too_ much trouble.
The art is mediocre. There are at most a couple of good lines. Heck, even some of the plot is really disappointing. But if you can borrow someone's copies of the comics, the expenditure of time in reading them is small enough that I'd recommend doing so, because then you'll know the backstory.
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Date: 2005-10-12 01:07 pm (UTC)In the case of Serenity, the three comics are sufficiently small and thin and not-dense that they read quickly even for me. (A couple of times I had to double back and make sure I caught something, but since there was little enough there, it wasn't _too_ much trouble.
The art is mediocre. There are at most a couple of good lines. Heck, even some of the plot is really disappointing. But if you can borrow someone's copies of the comics, the expenditure of time in reading them is small enough that I'd recommend doing so, because then you'll know the backstory.