2 new adaptations in comic format
The BBC announced a Scottish comedy television show called Still Game is being adapted to comics format:
Then, PC Gamer says Crusader Kings 3 is being adapted:
If Crusader Kings is a USA-produced game, then one could argue the UK writers in charge of the Still Game comic set a better example by going for comedy instead of what the computer game and its comic adaptation do.
Much-loved Scottish comedy Still Game is coming back - as Jack and Victor return in comic book form.No doubt. It certainly make for an interesting venture, but, the finished product's merit will depend on if they avoid political correctness. As noted before, PC only causes damage to artistic quality. So let's hope this new adaptation of the UK-based comedy program doesn't get tampered with.
Creators Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan have worked with a team of writers and artists to adapt the stories for a new format.
The popular BBC comedy about a group of pensioners ran for nine TV series and sold out three live show runs at the OVO Hydro in Glasgow.
The first book is released next month. Hemphill, who played Victor McDade, said the comics were like looking at the show again "with fresh eyes".
Then, PC Gamer says Crusader Kings 3 is being adapted:
In the list of games I'd expect to get a comic book tie in, Crusader Kings 3 does not feature prominently. Yet here we are, only a couple of weeks away from Paradox's grand strategy game getting its very own free comic, Many Roads to Power, which serves as a prequel to the upcoming expansion Roads to Power.This, on the other hand, isn't something I'm comfortable with, based on whether the tale to come is all about murder and violence. Will this turn out to be something not unlike TV's Game of Thrones adaptation? Maybe that's why, even if Crusader Kings isn't the most prominent game of its sort, it's still getting adapted. Because it's just what the world needs when there's far too much of the aforementioned mayhem going around in real life.
This mini comic will be available from CK3's website and Steam on August 22, and it'll chronicle the rise of the Byzantine emperor Basil I, who you'll then be able to play as once the expansion launches on September 24. [...]
Honestly, there have been weirder adaptations. We live in a world where Battleship was turned into a terrible movie about aliens. And Crusader Kings 3 is all about using medieval nobles to tell compelling stories of murder and civil war. History is overflowing with weird shit worthy of a comic book.
If Crusader Kings is a USA-produced game, then one could argue the UK writers in charge of the Still Game comic set a better example by going for comedy instead of what the computer game and its comic adaptation do.
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