“Why did we decide to adapt these titles instead of creating comic book spinoffs? Well, my brother Ernst and I are big fantasy fans, and we’ve been dying to see a lot of these books get made into movies so we can experience them visually the same way we’ve been able to see The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter come to life. But movies are expensive, and time consuming to get produced; they also require the author to make many compromises. Comic books, on the other hand, stand in the chasm between novels and films. They use words to tell a story, like a novel, but they also use images, like a film. They’re perfect for visual adaptations of these long-running fantasy novels, and they don’t require many compromises for us to tell the whole story.
“And since many of these series have millions of fans worldwide, we have a wonderful group of people who are ready to buy these books and support the cause…”
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