The Girl Who Owned a City
O.T. Nelson, Dan Jolley, Joelle Jones, Jenn Manley Lee
ISBN: 9780761349037
Read June 13, 2014
I'm about to commit a heresy - I like this version better than the original. The art is fantastic, the kids are individualized (and ethnically diverse!) the compositions are lovely, and the pared-down bare-bones narrating of the story makes it a lot more taut and compelling than the original story.
Not that I don't like the original, it's just in graphic format, you don't have as much time to think about nitpicky worldbuilding details until after the whole thing is done with, so you enjoy the flow of the story more.
I was equally impressed that despite the tightening of the "script" there was still plenty of room to have Lisa espousing her Randian philosophies, which I don't actually agree with, but are very very important to her motivation and the progression of the storyline. When I started it, I wondered if they were going to attempt to soften that up, but it's still fully present, which is admirable and classy of them.
Excellent graphic novel, but not for the littlest ones - characters (ie, little kids) get beaten up, shot, and attacked with boiling water, and show graphic (hah) signs of their injuries.
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