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[PA Comic] Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - Plus A Zookeeper
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On the plus side, the Dresden Files are fun books, and I hope Gabe posts his thoughts.
I get it, this is an April Fool's post.
I thought Dresden Files was a TV show? Might have to check those books out.
The books aren't very good.
The comic is pretty good.
These have been two facts and one opinion. Enjoy!
Well, only in the same way that every post today is an April Fool's post. But I assure you, I was serious - the Dresden books are pulpy fun.
Wood pulp.
tata
I disagree, I've only thought the comics were ok. The books are way better in my opinion.
The zookeeper bit is probably the least wrong thing Tycho says. Since he actually does take a case at a zoo at one point.
I can see how it looks like I was talking about a Dresden comic.
This.
I've always wondered whether the Dresden files was any inspiration for these strips:
Yes, and Harry does indeed ride it into battle.
More like wizard gets the utter crap kicked out of him manages to the save the day and still not get paid.
I'm at book three at the moment but does sound pretty amazing, is it?
My wife who isn't a fan of this sort of fantasy stuff, who has a masters in English and is now an MD, devoured the entire series up until the last book (which she will be starting this week as we just got the paperback) and loved every minute of it. Its silly and fun and not to be taken too seriously but it is a great ride and very entertaining. And Dresden is so loveable.
Since people love to spoil that bit:
The T-Rex is in
Most recent book spoiler listed below.
Also, the author is getting money from other successful series so he can possibly afford to kill off the Dresden books at some point.
I think the Dresden books are the series I've successfully introduced the most people too. Although the Vlad Taltos books might be tied in my reading circle.
Welp I have a new book series to read.
Well I would argue it's more of an animated skeletal T-Rex than a true zombie . . .
Some of the earlier works aren't quite as great as some of the tone wasn't nailed down yet but on the whole I greatly enjoy Butcher's interpretations of various mythological and supernatural entities and concepts in a modern pulp/noir setting. A faerie godmother is much less fun when it's an Unseelie faerie . . .
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Personally, I think the biggest weakness of the early books is the endings suuuuck. Just the most tacked on bow-tying. I still like them though, it's still worth starting at book 1.
For the record, the television series is quite far removed from the literature. I could only stomach a few episodes before quitting. The Dresden comics are pretty solid, though nothing amazing. The collections of short stories are fantasticly supportive of the world he has created.
“I let out a battle cry. Sure, a lot of people might have mistaken it for a sudden yelp of unmanly fear, but trust me. It was a battle cry.”
They fit the early books. They're largely case files for quite a bit, just documenting the big case that year. The change from being in the periphery of major supernatural happenings to a major player is gradual and marks a shift from pulp/noir fantasy detective to, well, whatever you'd call him now. Stuff he does early on just doesn't have as many ramifications as when he can threaten a black court vampire and be taken very seriously.
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I can't speak to Song of the Sorcelator in general, but LH Franzibald is Tim Buckley (creator of Ctrl+Alt+Del) according to Jerry and Mike, and his ripping off Tycho's Elemenstor Saga is a poke at how often CAD copied material from PA and Scott Kurtz' PVP (like, whole storylines; see Francis' Church of Gaming in PVP and Ethan's Church of Gaming in CAD years later). The Elemenstor Saga itself was Jerry's way of making fun of what he feels is the generally terrible quality of most licensed fantasy fiction made to prop up a separate product (typically a tabletop or videogame). SotS may be a nod to Dresden, but I'm pretty sure Jerry has commented positively on the series before, so it may have just been an attempt to one-up TES by being more "extreme" in that particular early-90's comicbook way that seems to be coming back around.
whole post was awesome
http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p49/
Maybe it's because I watched the TV show first I was fine with it. Particularly I actually like the TV Bob more than the book version until pretty far into the novels. But I