| A Game of Thrones | |
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Cover of the first issue of A Game of Thrones |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Dynamite Entertainment |
| Format | ongoing |
| Genre | Fantasy |
| Publication date | 21 September 2011 – ongoing |
| Number of issues | 24 planned |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Daniel Abraham |
| Artist(s) | Tommy Patterson |
| Letterer(s) | Marshall Dillion |
| Colorist(s) | Ivan Nunes |
A Game of Thrones is the comic book adaptation of George R.R. Martin's fantasy novel A Game of Thrones, the first in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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The comic book series is scripted by fantasy author Daniel Abraham and drawn by Tommy Patterson. It is intended to follow the story and atmosphere of the novel closely, at a rate of about a page of art for each page of text, and is projected to cover 24 issues of 29 pages each. George R.R. Martin advised Daniel Abraham on aspects of the adaptation.[1]
In an Ignite presentation of the series' development process, Abraham said that the major challenges in creating the adaptation were:[2]
The initial issue was published by Dynamite Entertainment in September 2011.[3] New issues are published at a rate of one per month. The initial six issues are set to be published as a trade paperback that is marketed as a graphic novel.[4]
Initial reviews of the adaptation were mixed. IGN rated the first issue as "passable", acknowledging the writing and art as competent, but considered the character design to be "overly pretty and slightly exaggerated" and the series as a whole to lack added value with respect to either the original novel or the HBO series.[5] The Weekly Comic Book Review gave the first issue a "B-", appreciating Patterson's art but finding the colors to be inappropriately bright and shiny.[6] Broken Frontier reviewed the "enjoyable adaption" favorably, but asked for "a tighter focus on characters over plot points, and a more serious take on the art".[7] While they appreciated Patterson's settings, they considered that his art dipped in quality when it came to facial expressions, making characters appear distracting and misshapen.[8] Comic bloggers Geek of Doom praised the comic, concluding that it communicated the book's depth better than the TV series did.[3] The Courier News's reviewer, on the other hand, dismissed the adaptation as presenting "a world filled with fantasy cliches, void of style and indistinguishable from any other mediocre book dubiously depicting the middle ages".[9]
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