So i was reading a comic adaption of "the crystal shard" by ra salvatore. I did not enjoy his writings and his origin story for his main character drizzt.
The crystal shard isn't anything special, but it works as a comic book adaption. Also the art is kickass, i wish they used the old style of coloring instead of the modern one but whatever.
They have one moment of "HIS DARK SKIN" aka race baiting, as in modern signaling for whatever bullshit people cry about, i can imagine seriously an elf pointing out drizzt's skin color but a human is a bit much. Like, why not something obvious like how all drows are bitches or like "his treacherous eyes" and based on what i've heard about drows, they have every right to worry. You can't blame them for not knowing a good one or being nice to everyone if the whole drow race are fuckers. Also you have the "HOW DARE YOU MEANIES BE MEAN TO HIM HE SAVED YOU" I've seen moments like this before in other media but there's nothing i can say about it. The actual story is typical, as i said but it's not to the point where it's not readable, it's fun i guess but obvious. Wulfgar and the dwarf are the stand out characters of the story but fuckin i'm a sucker for conan ripoffs, also i thought the father son relationship with the dwarf and wulfgar was cute, the author apparantly only knows how to write decent side characters lol. Speaking of typical you have the obvious trope when the main villian is tricked into killing himself. (to be fair this happens in many old comics from the 50's) Also with all his powers why the flying mother of fuck in the god damn would the wizard seriously waste his time building an army to take over a small fuckin village of maybe 500 inbred hicks? He has the crystal granting him god like power and a high ranking demon at his side. Am I stupid? Maybe i don't understand the god damn scale? or maybe the writer is an idiot or are we going for the typical trope of "villian is insane because reasons"
Either way the comicbook format was a better way of reading the story. Drizzt isn't something to write homd about, typical strong and silent type dude, John carter marvel comics adaption by Marv Wolfman actually comes to mind. (and those are fucking good) I don't know maybe i'm too harsh but at the same time i literally read the comic adaption of the original three dragonlance novels and those where so, so good. I am attempting to catch up on some D&D lore, Allegedly the drizzt stories are not only canon but also super important but fuckin whatever, i'll finish off the drizzt trilogy of comics, and then see if i can find some more D&D comics and books that are actually good, maybe more dragonlance if i can get my paws on them.