When or whether it will see the light of day remains to be seen.
A multi-issue comic book adaptation of The Last Unicorn, published by I.D.W., appeared in 2010. Adapted by Peter B. Gillis and with art by Renae De Liz, the first issue takes the unicorn through the confrontation with the butterfly while the second continues through Mommy Fortuna and her meeting with Schmendrick. The first issue contains a new Introduction by Beagle and the first part of “A Conversation With Peter S. Beagle,” originally posted on the internet. The second part appeared, naturally enough, in the second issue, and was concluded in the third. All six parts were combined in a graphic novel, published in February, 2011.
The illustrations are handsome, inspired by the animated film, perhaps, but ultimately a complete visual reimagining. They are printed with a mauve or lavender cast, which gives the art an appropriately sad nostalgia. The adaptation is straightforward, but as you might expect from the format opts for the simple rather than the complex, and thus the wonderful comic irony of the original is mostly lost. This is virtually inevitable in any adaptation, which by definition must be briefer than the original; the screenplay for the animated film suffered from the same defect, and Beagle wrote that adaptation himself. The released version of the film cut even more or Beagle’s script, as he makes clear in his narration on the Blu-Ray version released in 2011.
The animated film version, comic books, and the graphic novel are interesting in themselves, if less so than the work upon which they were based, and have served and will serve as an introduction to one of the great modern fantasy novels for a new generation of readers.
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