I’m Also Terrified This Will Somehow End In More Seasons of “According to Jim”

Maybe it's just me, but I can't imagine doing a continuation of the Veronica Mars TV show as a comic book would be a good idea. This is even though I thought VM was a fine program, particularly its first season.

The problem with directly translating film to comics is that even if the writing works the same way in another medium -- never a guarantee -- it takes a unique and highly skilled artist to replicate any of the naturalistic qualities that actors routinely bring to characters, let alone the full range of them, let alone the kind of emotional subtext that frequently works its way across the faces and through the bodies of the Veronica Mars cast. I don't think this element works in Joss Whedon's stuff, either, although his fans project onto the characters with such a thoroughness it mitigates against this effect. There's no reason Veronica Mars couldn't be the greatest comic book ever, of course, but I really doubt it.
 
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