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Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Volume 2 (v. 2)

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Dream Corridor Vol 2 is a collection of Harlan Ellison's short stories in comic format. This is a real gem! Each story is drawn, inked and interpreted by different superstars of the comic scene. The interstitials with Harlan Ellison introducing each story are also entertaining and very well-drawn.

Harlan Ellison is a fan of the comics medium, and it shows here in his painstaking effort to create quality versions of his stories. Some of the short stories are more interesting than others, but all of them challenge your mind. The artwork from story to story is totally different, yet uniformly good.

This is one part "The Twilight Zone" one part classic sci-fi short story, and one part great artwork. Comics fans, take a break from the masked heroes and get this book. Serious sci-fi readers, open your mind and read some great short stories in a graphic novel format. Neither reader will be disappointed.

I'm a big fan of quite a bit of Ellison's works, his short stories in particular. Why it took me so long to discover him, seeing as how he was really in his prime before I was old enough to read is beyond me. However, now that I've discovered what a fantastic writer he was/is I've been doing my best to catch up with those bits that may be scattered here and there that I haven't read.

...which is what made my reading of 'Deam Corridor 2' somewhat of a letdown, as - with two exceptions - I had read all the stories in their original Ellison prose. The translation of just about all the stories into a more visual form felt quite forced, and many of the stories suffered greatly for this. Had I not read them in the first place the stories wouldn't have come across as quite so inept, but with the comparison to the original available it became obvious that many of the translations weren't up to snuff.

The remaining two stories - the ones that were based on illustrations and which Ellison wrote especially for the 'Dream Corridor' publication - weren't very memorable.

While I don't think that the works presented in any way tarnished my impression of the original stories, I do wish that the adaptation into a different milieu had worked a little better.