Dune: House Atreides #1
BOOM! Studios 2020
Written by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Illustrated by Dev Pramanik
Coloured by Alex Guimaráes
Lettered by Ed Dukeshire
Arrakis, known as Dune by the native Fremen, is the only known source of rare and vital Spice. Spice enables safe interstellar travel. Spice Prolongs life. Spice is one of the most valuable substances in the known universe. DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets. Meanwhile, a violent coup is planned by the son of Emperor Elrood; an eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey. These unlikely souls are drawn together first as renegades and then as something more, as they discover their true fate -- to change the very shape of history!
I remember the first time I saw Dune when I was 14, which coincidentally was the year of its release, and I was bored to tears. What a great cast it had and with those wondrous actors, and hell even with Sting, it just seemed to drag on and on in my newer teenage mind. I tried it a number of years later and I still felt the same way and just figured it wasn’t for me. Now if a comic adaptation had been around for me to read I might have changed my mind. As it stands today I could not get enough of the story presented to us here.
I am a fan of the way that this is being told. How we see the story & plot development constantly moving forward through how we see the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is extremely nice to see. The character development that we see is fantastic as already we get our first and strongest impression of these characters which if they hold true as the story continues then we should be in for one hell of a fun ride with these folks. We have hopeful’s and nasties and those who straddle the line and I’ll tell ya the way they intermingle in this supposed caste system is utterly delightful. The pacing that we see is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the characters, the story and the twists & turns along the way it is so nice to see how everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow.
I really am liking the interiors that we see here. The linework is great and how we see the varying weights as well as the various techniques being utilised to create this detailed work we see is incredibly well rendered. I have to say that the way we see the backgrounds being utilised throughout is smartly done. We get what we need to see and there is much about these worlds as barren as they are that we see beautifully. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a striking eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see is beautifully rendered as well. How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is exceptional. Also being in space and on worlds alien to our own the choice of colours is rather magnificent to see throughout.
If this were my introduction to Dune I'd be actively seeking it out to find out more about. Granted the book doesn’t hold that well to scrutiny over time but that’s okay. This is a fantastic start to a new chapter of Dune and what these gentlemen are doing with the way this is structured and how we see the layers within the story is infinitely fascinating to behold. This is how you do a classic in a way that has some crazy good mass appeal to a wide range of audience.
BOOM! Studios 2020
Written by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
Illustrated by Dev Pramanik
Coloured by Alex Guimaráes
Lettered by Ed Dukeshire
Arrakis, known as Dune by the native Fremen, is the only known source of rare and vital Spice. Spice enables safe interstellar travel. Spice Prolongs life. Spice is one of the most valuable substances in the known universe. DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES transports readers to the far future on the desert planet Arrakis where Pardot Kynes seeks its secrets. Meanwhile, a violent coup is planned by the son of Emperor Elrood; an eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho seeks to escape his cruel masters; and a young man named Leto Atreides begins a fateful journey. These unlikely souls are drawn together first as renegades and then as something more, as they discover their true fate -- to change the very shape of history!
I remember the first time I saw Dune when I was 14, which coincidentally was the year of its release, and I was bored to tears. What a great cast it had and with those wondrous actors, and hell even with Sting, it just seemed to drag on and on in my newer teenage mind. I tried it a number of years later and I still felt the same way and just figured it wasn’t for me. Now if a comic adaptation had been around for me to read I might have changed my mind. As it stands today I could not get enough of the story presented to us here.
I am a fan of the way that this is being told. How we see the story & plot development constantly moving forward through how we see the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is extremely nice to see. The character development that we see is fantastic as already we get our first and strongest impression of these characters which if they hold true as the story continues then we should be in for one hell of a fun ride with these folks. We have hopeful’s and nasties and those who straddle the line and I’ll tell ya the way they intermingle in this supposed caste system is utterly delightful. The pacing that we see is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the characters, the story and the twists & turns along the way it is so nice to see how everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow.
I really am liking the interiors that we see here. The linework is great and how we see the varying weights as well as the various techniques being utilised to create this detailed work we see is incredibly well rendered. I have to say that the way we see the backgrounds being utilised throughout is smartly done. We get what we need to see and there is much about these worlds as barren as they are that we see beautifully. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a striking eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see is beautifully rendered as well. How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is exceptional. Also being in space and on worlds alien to our own the choice of colours is rather magnificent to see throughout.
If this were my introduction to Dune I'd be actively seeking it out to find out more about. Granted the book doesn’t hold that well to scrutiny over time but that’s okay. This is a fantastic start to a new chapter of Dune and what these gentlemen are doing with the way this is structured and how we see the layers within the story is infinitely fascinating to behold. This is how you do a classic in a way that has some crazy good mass appeal to a wide range of audience.
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