I don't know if I'm disappointed in the story, or disappointed in the adaptation, but the bottom line is that I'm disappointed. And, seriously, I read enough comics that this shouldn't be a problem for me. So odd, in fact, that I wasn't sure I was reading the panels in the correct order.

Sometimes it made sense.ish, but there were multiple times that it was just and odd pause in the story. There were some weird panels where a character would just stop in the middle of a thought and just.stare. The art, though? It was a different story. The dialogue was clunky, but it was all there. Like, the author didn't skimp on the story. Either this was a horrible graphic adaptation of my favorite childhood novel, or my younger self had horrible taste in books. Did I only like this because it has that sci-fi element that I craved, but couldn't really get at a young age, because of my weird religious upbringing? Not sure how well any of that stuff would sit with me today. The religious stuff I remember, but man.ugh.

Was Meg always this horrible and whiny? Was Charles Wallace an obnoxious know-it-all in the book? Were all of the characters annoyingly vague and cryptic in the original? And surely the dialogue was better, right? But Jesus.this made me rethink why I have such fond memories of it. I'm holding up my worn out, coverless copy as proof. And I loved that book when I was a kid.Įasily, it was my favorite. Well, I can't say I enjoyed that very much, and it pretty much put me off ever re-reading the book.

A wrinkle in time graphic novel