There’s a big trend in making graphic novels out of some of the more popular urban fantasy books (Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Laurell K. Hamilton), and interestingly a couple of the paranormal romance authors have manga series that are being created around some of their more popular books. I knew that Sherrilyn Kenyon had spun her Dark Hunter series off into a manga series, which didn’t surprise me, as she is known as a big manga fan and mentions manga and graphic novels in her own books. I was a little surprised when I found a manga version of a Christine Feehan book yesterday at the book store. It was an epic disappointment. The quality was so poor it was ridiculous, I have no idea what the publisher was thinking. The illustrations were amateurish, and the plot was cut to shreds. Her entire series of books are fairly sexual, and the graphic novel cuts from the heroine being in her underwear on one page to dressed and flying through the air on the next. I’m assuming that they were trying to tone down the sex in the storylines to make the books more marketable to teens, but it didn’t work. There’s just a huge variable in quality between the two, which I’m assuming comes from the difference in the two authors’ familiarity with the manga format.
Dark Hunter Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dark Hunger Christine Feehan
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