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With the release of the new D&D comic today I wonder if the time is right for Paizo to license Pathfinder out to IDW or Dynamite to create Pathfinder comics? I know that producing them in house would be too expensive for Paizo but if they licensed at a low point it could be absorbed as an advertising thing or perhaps getting the setting some exposure for TV/Movie optioning?
Any thoughts of the likelihood?
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DC has tried the D&D license before with no lasting success. Marvel has been trying some different things with their Stephen King stuff maybe they might be interested. The only other company that might try it would be Dynamite and I don't think they have the depth of talent there to do Pathfinder justice. Too bad about IDW but I get that they want to keep Hasbro happy given the number of licenses they current produce for them.
Dynamite picked up Wild Cards "The Hard Call" after Dabel's troubles and is finishing up the mini-series. I'd say they have some pretty good standards there (being a member of the Wild Cards consortium here) and it looks like they're expanding so I'd say they'd be something to look into for a Pathfinder.
Of course, our hobby does not have a great history so far as comics goes. I still have the first D&D comic I got as a freebie years ago, and aside from having incantations that did not scan (never a good idea), I remember a friend of mine who's a comic artist showing me one page with an illustration of the lich king who was wearing some sort of pot helm with a crown welded to the brow. "You know what's wrong with this picture?" said my artist friend, turning the comic upside down. "This man has a champagne bucket on his head!"
Indeed. What looked like an extremely strange pot helm/crown thingy became a rather attractive champagne bucket if you just looked at it the other way.
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Yes, the history of rpg comics isn't great. I did like the interview with John Rogers in the new D&D comic. I think he gets that the comics need to be fun and capture that sense of high adventure. Looks like a good team on that book but the Dark Sun book looks like some of the more forgettable stuff I have seen over the years.
I did go back and take a look at the Dynamite stable and its possible they could put together a good product (maybe some Jae Lee/John Cassaday/Alex Ross covers) but what about the main creative team for the inside?
All I can speak to so far as the inside creative team goes is that the Wild Cards comic miniseries (six issues, with a trade paperback coming out afterward from DelRey) was written by Daniel Abraham, one of the regular wild cards authors (and a very talented author in his own right) and edited by George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass. George also has artwork approval.
I'm assuming the same could be done with Pathfinder, with the editing and scripting done by Paizo's editorial staff and freelancers, and the artwork coordinated by Dynamite, but this is a large assumption as I'm not looking at it on the contract end.
If they do, I hope the writing is of a higher quality than what I have seen of the DnD comic previews.
It seems to me that there is an idea "out there" that states that fantasy writing is easy for anyone to do. It is not, and this is why we have so few quality fantasy writers, but tons of mediocre ones.
Give me some serious, well-written and engaging stories, damn it!
If they do, I hope the writing is of a higher quality than what I have seen of the DnD comic previews.
It seems to me that there is an idea "out there" that states that fantasy writing is easy for anyone to do. It is not, and this is why we have so few quality fantasy writers, but tons of mediocre ones.
Give me some serious, well-written and engaging stories, damn it!
Any of the Pathfinder journals in the APs would make for excellent graphic novels.
How about a web-comic at the very least?
Any of the Pathfinder journals in the APs would make for excellent graphic novels.If they do, I hope the writing is of a higher quality than what I have seen of the DnD comic previews.
It seems to me that there is an idea "out there" that states that fantasy writing is easy for anyone to do. It is not, and this is why we have so few quality fantasy writers, but tons of mediocre ones.
Give me some serious, well-written and engaging stories, damn it!
Agreed.
So this became reality. Excellent forecast!
I keep seeing references to this. Does anyone have a link?
NM: Took two seconds in Google and found a link.
So the next question is ... is this the next subscriber offering? Hm?!