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	title:	Guards! Guards! (Graphic Novel): A Discworld Graphic Novel
	author:	Terry Pratchett
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Gollancz
	released:	December 14, 2000
	isbn:	0575070714
	isbn-13:	9780575070714

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Book Details / Review - supplied by Amazon UK
Terry Pratchett's eighth novel Guards! Guards! (1989) opened Discworld's popular "Ankh-Morpork City Watch" police-procedural comic fantasies. Now Captain Vimes and his motley watchmen go down those mean streets again in this graphic adaptation, assisted in their enquiries by two of the usual Pratchett Gang suspects: illustrator Graham Higgins, who drew the Mort comic, and adaptor Stephen Briggs, who condenses Discworld into theatre scripts. Fans will know the story by heart. Alcoholic Vimes, corpulent coward Sergeant Colon and barely human runt Nobby are joined by the huge, innocent new Watch recruit Carrot (a dwarf by adoption), as Ankh-Morpork city enters a reign of terror. There's a ravaging dragon about, whose flame doesn't just toast people but vaporises them. Behind the dragon are its summoners, those hilariously seedy ritualists the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Behind the Brethren... but that would be telling. Guards! Guards! is a substantial novel with a serpentine plot; boiling it down to 122 pages of speech balloons and glossy colour art must have been daunting. Some favourite Pratchett lines and running gags were thrown to the wolves, but the streamlined story still works well, and Higgins' quirky artwork adds a new dimension. Wickedly funny details lurk in street and crowd scene backgrounds. Eccentrics like Lady Sybil Ramkin, the "statueskew" dragon breeder, would be easy to turn into caricatures but are given a proper comic dignity. A highly enjoyable read--but funnier if you know the original, where Pratchett had room to give his characters more depth. --David Langford

Book Details / Review - supplied by Amazon UK

Terry Pratchett's eighth novel Guards! Guards! (1989) opened Discworld's popular "Ankh-Morpork City Watch" police-procedural comic fantasies. Now Captain Vimes and his motley watchmen go down those mean streets again in this graphic adaptation, assisted in their enquiries by two of the usual Pratchett Gang suspects: illustrator Graham Higgins, who drew the Mort comic, and adaptor Stephen Briggs, who condenses Discworld into theatre scripts.

Fans will know the story by heart. Alcoholic Vimes, corpulent coward Sergeant Colon and barely human runt Nobby are joined by the huge, innocent new Watch recruit Carrot (a dwarf by adoption), as Ankh-Morpork city enters a reign of terror. There's a ravaging dragon about, whose flame doesn't just toast people but vaporises them. Behind the dragon are its summoners, those hilariously seedy ritualists the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. Behind the Brethren... but that would be telling.

Guards! Guards! is a substantial novel with a serpentine plot; boiling it down to 122 pages of speech balloons and glossy colour art must have been daunting. Some favourite Pratchett lines and running gags were thrown to the wolves, but the streamlined story still works well, and Higgins' quirky artwork adds a new dimension. Wickedly funny details lurk in street and crowd scene backgrounds. Eccentrics like Lady Sybil Ramkin, the "statueskew" dragon breeder, would be easy to turn into caricatures but are given a proper comic dignity.

A highly enjoyable read--but funnier if you know the original, where Pratchett had room to give his characters more depth. --David Langford

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Customer Reviews
Good! - Rated This was a good shortened version of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, with some great pictures. Similar to the Mort Comic (which was also great!) A must for any Terry Pratchett Discworld fan! Cool! Cool! - Rated If you know what Discworld is, there is 1 to 1,000,000 chance(100%) you'll like this book! I liked it more than any other book in the series like Sourcery or Pyramids espescially because of Carrot. The book joins captain Vimes to an adventure with dragons, beautifull(sort of) ladies, 1 Carrot and a great storyline. All of those are included in this super-amusing book. Buy it - read it - LOVE it!

Customer Reviews

Good! - Rated 4/5
This was a good shortened version of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, with some great pictures. Similar to the Mort Comic (which was also great!) A must for any Terry Pratchett Discworld fan!

Cool! Cool! - Rated 5/5
If you know what Discworld is, there is 1 to 1,000,000 chance(100%) you'll like this book! I liked it more than any other book in the series like Sourcery or Pyramids espescially because of Carrot. The book joins captain Vimes to an adventure with dragons, beautifull(sort of) ladies, 1 Carrot and a great storyline. All of those are included in this super-amusing book. Buy it - read it - LOVE it!