The humans are expressive and capture comedic elements and a few more tender moments. Working together with the script, the cartoon figures of demons are inventive–both gruesome and comic, and full of colour as they dance along the visual frame. The heat of hell and numerous sardonic emphases shoot through the text in visual script. The calligraphy is perfect, including a sharp Screwtape signature that was very pleasing and matches the letter format well. Lewis’ classic WWII-era volume of (anti-)spiritual direction, a correspondence of a senior demon to a new tempter working on his first mark, “the Patient.”Īs a comic book, I think The Screwtape Letters is superb. In this review, first I’ll treat it as a graphic novel doing what they do best, and then look at the Marvel Screwtape as an adaptation–in each case trying to draw out the layers of irony that is The Screwtape Letters, C.S. For a fuller review, you can find Tyler Hummel at “ Geeks Under Grace,” including his great pictures I have used here.

Winburne (Consulting Editor), Mort Todd (Editor), and Tom DeFalco (Editor in Chief). The production team is quite large with overlapping responsibilities, no doubt, including: Charles Hall (Adaptation and Layouts), Pat Redding (Illustrator, Inks, and Calligraphy), John Kalisz (Illustrator, Colours), Darryl F. I have always urged students and friends to read The Screwtape Lettersslowly–a letter a day for a month is ideal–so this method worked remarkably well for me.Īs I consider how to review this graphic novel as a non specialist (just a fan), my mind is split into two bands: the book as a graphic novel and the graphic novel as an adaptation. Then, on the weekend, I began my more serious discussion preparation. Early in the week, I would read the 3-page spread of that week’s letter and allow the conversation to soak in for a bit. I have been leading a church group through the letters, one letter per week, and the graphic novel gave me a chance to pre-prepare my lessons. Partway through the winter, I began reading this graphic treasure.

Lewis scholar and an avid reader of Screwtape, I am pretty pleased to have gotten this particular comic book in the mail on Christmas Eve. I suspect that collectors keep it, and that very few sought it out when it was first published who were not already Lewis fans. Hall graphic novel adaptation of Screwtape has proved completely impossible to find in local shops. Last December, I was the recipient of a “ Screwtape Christmas Miracle.” From some unknown person of no doubt elfin origin, I received the Marvel Comics version of C.S.

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