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Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Graphic Novel (Paperback)

by Terry Pratchett (Author), Stephen Briggs (Illustrator), Graham Higgins (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 122 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New Ed edition (14 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575070714
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575070714
  • Product Dimensions: 25.8 x 16.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 124,707 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Terry Pratchett's eighth novel Guards! Guards! (1989) opened Discworld's popular "Ankh-Morpork City Watch" police-procedural comic fantasies. Now Captain Vimes and his motley watchmen go down those mean streets again in this graphic adaptation, assisted in their enquiries by two of the usual Pratchett Gang suspects: illustrator Graham Higgins, who drew the Mort comic, and adaptor Stephen Briggs, who condenses Discworld into theatre scripts.

Fans will know the story by heart. Alcoholic Vimes, corpulent coward Sergeant Colon and barely human runt Nobby are joined by the huge, innocent new Watch recruit Carrot (a dwarf by adoption), as Ankh-Morpork city enters a reign of terror. There's a ravaging dragon about, whose flame doesn't just toast people but vaporises them. Behind the dragon are its summoners, those hilariously seedy ritualists the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Behind the Brethren... but that would be telling.

Guards! Guards! is a substantial novel with a serpentine plot; boiling it down to 122 pages of speech balloons and glossy colour art must have been daunting. Some favourite Pratchett lines and running gags were thrown to the wolves, but the streamlined story still works well, and Higgins' quirky artwork adds a new dimension. Wickedly funny details lurk in street and crowd scene backgrounds. Eccentrics like Lady Sybil Ramkin, the "statueskew" dragon breeder, would be easy to turn into caricatures but are given a proper comic dignity.

A highly enjoyable read--but funnier if you know the original, where Pratchett had room to give his characters more depth. --David Langford --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.



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Some night-time prowler is turning the (mostly) honest citizens of Ankh-Morpork into something resembling small charcoal biscuits. And that's a real problem for Captain Vimes, who must tramp the mean streets of the naked city looking for a seventy-foot-long fire-breathing dragon which, he believes, can help him with his enquiries. But there's more - now we get to see Ankh-Morpork in all its glory; illustrations so vibrant you can practically smell and taste the denizens of this delightful city (although with Corporal Nobbs, you might rather wish you didn't have to). All rendered in painstaking detail by Graham Higgins (who feels he now knows altogether far too much about the murky goings on inside Nobbs' head).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Cool! Cool!, 15 Dec 2000
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This review is from: Guards! Guards!: A Discworld Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
If you know what Discworld is, there is 1 to 1,000,000 chance(100%) you'll like this book! I liked it more than any other book in the series like Sourcery or Pyramids espescially because of Carrot. The book joins captain Vimes to an adventure with dragons, beautifull(sort of) ladies, 1 Carrot and a great storyline. All of those are included in this super-amusing book. Buy it - read it - LOVE it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Correct Way To Adapt A Discworld Novel, 3 Nov 2009
I have said before that the Discworld Comics are usually (in my opinion) found wanting for one minor reason or another. Here I am proved wrong. This is an extremely faithful and enjoyable adaption with beautiful and highly suitable artwork, plenty of clear, concise dialogue (so you're never left wondering what's going on) and, most importantly of all, that very special 'Discworld Feel'.

As I said above, the artwork is just beautiful. Vibrant colour and style, with characters that will intergrate themselves into your imagination to be recalled when you next read about them in a non graphic format.

There is a fair amount of dialogue but not too much. The only thing I would complain about here would be the occasional misuse of punctuation and a couple of extra 'MEANWHILE's (ect...) wouldn't have gone amiss as the story moved about. But I'm really just nit-picking when I say that.

There was, as there will surely always be, one thing wrong: Why was Carrots 'mother' wearing a dress? This is pre Feet Of Clay so the femininity of Dwarves has not yet been acknowledged, least of all in Uberwald. But aside from that this is a remarkable graphic novel, wonderfully adapted from an exellent book and losing none of the witty charm of the origional.

Very Highly Reccomended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very funny!, 3 Sep 2009
By C. Augusto "Guthorm" (Italy) - See all my reviews
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Discword serie is the opera of a genius. Ironic, adventorous... everything in the right place. And in this comic version of what I believe is the best discword book ever, well, what to say other than "a masterpiece"?
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good!
This was a good shortened version of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, with some great pictures. Similar to the Mort Comic (which was also great! Read more
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