Flashback

[amberdulen]

So I was in the library ODing on comic books when I discovered that Redwall had been adapted into graphic novel format. Immediately, and for the first time in a long time, this switch went off in my brain and I was right back in the RWOnline mindset. RWO, for those of you never in the Redwall fandom, was a monthly ezine that I ran for eighteen

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[floorlamps]

...Oh the memories.

But I have to say, for some reason the art disturbs me. Possibly it is their little piglike noses.

[amberdulen]

And the blatantly speciesist depictions of the vermin! :)

[floorlamps]

OH NO SPECIESISM.

Heehee, I had forgotten about that hotly-debated topic. And oh dear, the headfur arguments, and the interspecies romance, and was Veil inherently evil, and...

Ahh, nostalgia. Next thing you know I'll be waxing maudlin over my stints in ROC:S and QB.

[media_res]

Oh man, headfur. Rose's mullet--remember Rose's mullet? Lordie.

Also, for the record, RWO was my favorite of the e-zines during that period. I printed out every issue for a while there.

[izhilzha]

AWESOME. I had no idea that was out! Must tell the siblings!

(btw, have you seen/read Mouse Guard? We call it "Redwall for grownups," not that Redwall itself isn't for grownups....)

[twapa]

I actually have a B&W version of the first chapter or whatever - from before the color GN was released. 0_o

[amberdulen]

No, I haven't...it looks cute, I'll see if I can find it!

[twapa]

Ah... the old days! XD

... Didn't I actually do freelancery for both ROC and Terrouge in the past? XD

I've seen the RW GN, but I haven't read it. Probably because I was always seeing it while I was shelving and the lib and forgot to go back and pick it up later. >_>

Did you ever see my rant on the cover of that recent RW book (Eulalia! or something)? Yeah. I think the last RW novel I read was Legend of Luke. >_>

[amberdulen]

I know you had Untitled! in RWO, did you also have it in Terrouge?

Man, I think the last one I read was Pearls of Lutra. I know I never picked up Marlfox. That was one series that really played into the law of diminishing returns, didn't it?

[twapa]

Yeah, I did some art for a writing contests for Terrouge. XD

[floorlamps]

I remember you did art for at least one Questors Bold--I recall this largely because that was the one I ran, and I was so stoked to get you as the portrait artist.

[highwing]

*waves his wing affirmatively*

Me me me!!! *I* remember RWOnline too! Even if I did come in right on the end of it ...

Snitter, I believe your Terrouge character portraits were for Questors Bold 3, IIRC.

I saw "Mouseguard" at both last year's Anthrocon and at this April's ComicCon in NYC; in between, TDC had told me about it as well in the RFF Chat. Haven't yet sampled it, since I'm not sure I'm wild about the art style. Also have yet to fully scope out the Redwall GN.

Oh, the memories this post and its replies have conjured! Surely this is a case of LJ living up to its full potential!

[dsch]

Yay RWO! I haven't thought about it in a while, but I do remember it well!

I'm up to date in reading the Redwall books, and I own a copy of the graphic novel. I was actually really disappointed that it's in black and white rather than color, since BJ was so vivid in his descriptions of colors and scenery in the early books, and since my own mental images of the setting are so colorful. But! I did not mind the look of the art in general, unfair speciesism aside.

(If you do get an urge to read some newer Redwall books, Marlfox was actually pretty good, as was Rakkety Tam. Taggerung wasn't bad either.)