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MEG: The Graphic Novel
A beautifully illustrated graphic novel based on New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten’s novel and a Major Motion Picture directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Jason Statham as Jonas Taylor.
Once a Navy deep-sea submersible pilot, now a marine paleontologist, Dr. Jonas Taylor is convinced that a remnant population of Carcharodon Megalodon―prehistoric sharks growing up to 70 feet long, that subsisted on whales―lurks at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. When offered the opportunity to return to those crushing depths in search of the MEG, Taylor leaps at the chance… but the quest for scientific knowledge (and personal vindication) becomes a desperate fight for survival, when the most vicious predator that the earth has ever known is freed to once-again hunt the surface.
This graphic novel is illustrated by superstar artist Mike S. Miller, artist of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones prequel "The Hedge Knight" graphic novel and the number 1 bestselling digital comic series, DC Comics "INJUSTICE".
Once a Navy deep-sea submersible pilot, now a marine paleontologist, Dr. Jonas Taylor is convinced that a remnant population of Carcharodon Megalodon―prehistoric sharks growing up to 70 feet long, that subsisted on whales―lurks at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. When offered the opportunity to return to those crushing depths in search of the MEG, Taylor leaps at the chance… but the quest for scientific knowledge (and personal vindication) becomes a desperate fight for survival, when the most vicious predator that the earth has ever known is freed to once-again hunt the surface.
This graphic novel is illustrated by superstar artist Mike S. Miller, artist of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones prequel "The Hedge Knight" graphic novel and the number 1 bestselling digital comic series, DC Comics "INJUSTICE".
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152 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 12, 2018
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December 14, 2019
Shark Weak
Review of the Blacklist Universe edition (Dec 2019) of the Dabel Bros. original (2018) based on the original Steve Alten novel Meg (June 1997)
Although this graphic novel adaptation was released at the time of the 2018 film "The MEG", it more closely follows the plot of the original 1997 novel. There are therefore several subplots which are not even seen in the film version.
Although the adaptation is accurate to the novel and the artwork is well done, the main disappointment is that the final confrontation with the monster shark (no spoiler here) is not even completely portrayed on the page. The ending simply jump-cuts to the aftermath.
Review of the Blacklist Universe edition (Dec 2019) of the Dabel Bros. original (2018) based on the original Steve Alten novel Meg (June 1997)
Although this graphic novel adaptation was released at the time of the 2018 film "The MEG", it more closely follows the plot of the original 1997 novel. There are therefore several subplots which are not even seen in the film version.
Although the adaptation is accurate to the novel and the artwork is well done, the main disappointment is that the final confrontation with the monster shark (no spoiler here) is not even completely portrayed on the page. The ending simply jump-cuts to the aftermath.
July 31, 2020
This is the graphic novel of the first Meg book.
So if you've read the book the story in this novel is pretty much the same.
I personally love the Meg series, even the weaker sequels. So this was a no brainer. I loved the drawings, though. So if you like the Meg books, go ahead. And if you're just starting with the series it's okay to pick up this graphic novel, too. There wont be anything essential you're missing.
So if you've read the book the story in this novel is pretty much the same.
I personally love the Meg series, even the weaker sequels. So this was a no brainer. I loved the drawings, though. So if you like the Meg books, go ahead. And if you're just starting with the series it's okay to pick up this graphic novel, too. There wont be anything essential you're missing.
May 3, 2023
As the author and creator of The MEG series, there were for unique formats I was really excited about experiencing: (in the order they were brought to market):
The First-Edition hardback:
The mass market paperback:
The MEG audio:
The MEG Graphic Novel.
Before the review, I want to quickly mention that on January 31, 2023 pre-sales for Volume One of a true 7-Volume Collector's Edition set of MEG novels, Angel of Death novellas, the six comics that make the Graphic Novel (reviewed below), the MEG prequel (now written into a 25th anniversary edition of MEG) officially went on sale on January 31, 2023. These books are big and built-to-last, bound in the best faux-leather (available in your choice of 3 different color schemes), the outer pages dipped in silver or gold leaf. ONLY 5,000 SETS ARE BEING PRINTED - guaranteeing their increased value. MEG: LEGACY can only be pre-purchased at the SteveAlten.com store. Purchase a set or Volume-1 or the entire set in June and your 7 Volumes will be signed by moi. (the French me).
Okay, here we go...
MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror. Published by Bantam-Doubleday-Dell (BDD).
Format: Hardback (1997) and mass-market paperback (1997).
FLASHBACK 27 years to Winter-Spring of 1997. Twenty-five years earlier, BDD had published Peter Benchley's best-seller, JAWS, a novel whose iconic cover art featuring a toothy Great White Shark ascending beneath a tastefully rendered (pun intended) naked woman certainly kept bathers close to shore.
What did BDD's art department create for the MEG hardback? In a word... MEH. I was lukewarm at best about the dust cover's shallow underwater image of... a trail of blood? Uh...hello? Where's the damn shark?
"Steve, times have changed. Trust us - booksellers prefer classic cover art where less is actually more. The in-your-face scary sharp teeth and naked woman - it's now considered corny - and corny is a something that can kill sales." "Okay, and that might have worked if the title was TEETH or FEAR - something that described a shark five times larger than a Great White. But no one knows what or who MEG refers to." Naturally, they ignored me. GRADE: C minus.
Mass Market : If I was disappointed with the hardback, I was utterly dissatisfied and
sickened when I saw Bantam's mass market mistake... a solid black cover with the word MEG stacked - again in black. Hell of an effort, Bantam. Are you really this dumb, or are you purposely trying your best NOT to sell paperbacks?
The answer - which I would learn years later was actually YES. .. long after BDD ceased all communications in December of 1998. .two weeks before I was due to receive a high 6-figure payment for my second novel - FATHOM -the back end of a two-book, 7-figure deal. Instead of accepting the novel or offering me more notes to edit by, BDD cancelled FATHOM.
In retrospect - BDD probably saved my career. FATHOM was pitched as a thriller about the Mayan Calendar's 2,000 year old doomsday prophecy... that was before BDD decided they wanted to groom me to be their next Peter Benchley. .. something I never wanted or asked for. In the end, Ii ave them what they asked for- another underwater story, but it was a horrible mess. Two weeks before I was due a large payment BDD cancelled FATHOM. Then, to save face - they butchered the book they had insisted I write.
The President of Doubleday (Arlene Friedman) had several problems. MEG the hardback was a hit, the paperback only 5 months away. I later leaned that BDD was in the process of being bought out by German conglomerate Bertlesmann. A year earlier, the German publisher had clearly been insulted when - at the 1996 Frankfurt (Germany) Book Fair, the host was clearly rankled as all anyone could talk about was this MEG manuscript that BDD had purchased and were now selling out the foreign rights to - MEG named the Book of the Fair. I have a newspaper article that quoted a Bertlesmann mgr: "It's the end of everything."
For Arlene Friedman, that was true. Cancelling FATHOM saved money, but the last thing she needed was the MEG paperback to sell millions of copies -which it would done. Instead she tossed it overboard with FATHOM and blamed everything on me. Bertlesmann fired her anyway.
GRADE: F.
NOTE: We had to sue BDD to get the rights to the Mayan story back. I rewrote the entire novel and TOR bought the domestic rights and released it as DOMAIN (with not single edit). In 2010, a small publisher in Spain purchased the rights and retitled it The MAYAN PROPHESY. The novel became a runaway best seller and the #1 best-seller in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina.
Unfortunately, years of stress left its mark and at the age of 47, Iwas diangosed with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease.
Moving on...
Since the audio was also BDD (well done, to be fair), I will conclude the MEG review with the MEG Graphic Novel, story adapted by J.S. Earls, illustrated by Mike S. Miller. Simply put - I am blown-away! Mike S. Miller's illustrations are so artistically breathtaking... the characters appearing so life-like that (true story) I actually had to remove the MGN from my high school teen reading program (Adopt-an-Author), as well as the private free PDF library located at SeaMonsterCove.com & SeaMonsterCoveHS.com (SMC High School) because I GUARANTEE parents would have complained (not so much the Dads). The bikini-clad women are the stuff nocturnal emissions are made for while the borderline bloody R-rated attack scenes are each a potential Night Terror-in-wait. And yet the artwork only works because of the flawless adaptation of the 350-page novel written by J.S. Earls.
Thank you, gentleman -a well-earned A+.
The First-Edition hardback:
The mass market paperback:
The MEG audio:
The MEG Graphic Novel.
Before the review, I want to quickly mention that on January 31, 2023 pre-sales for Volume One of a true 7-Volume Collector's Edition set of MEG novels, Angel of Death novellas, the six comics that make the Graphic Novel (reviewed below), the MEG prequel (now written into a 25th anniversary edition of MEG) officially went on sale on January 31, 2023. These books are big and built-to-last, bound in the best faux-leather (available in your choice of 3 different color schemes), the outer pages dipped in silver or gold leaf. ONLY 5,000 SETS ARE BEING PRINTED - guaranteeing their increased value. MEG: LEGACY can only be pre-purchased at the SteveAlten.com store. Purchase a set or Volume-1 or the entire set in June and your 7 Volumes will be signed by moi. (the French me).
Okay, here we go...
MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror. Published by Bantam-Doubleday-Dell (BDD).
Format: Hardback (1997) and mass-market paperback (1997).
FLASHBACK 27 years to Winter-Spring of 1997. Twenty-five years earlier, BDD had published Peter Benchley's best-seller, JAWS, a novel whose iconic cover art featuring a toothy Great White Shark ascending beneath a tastefully rendered (pun intended) naked woman certainly kept bathers close to shore.
What did BDD's art department create for the MEG hardback? In a word... MEH. I was lukewarm at best about the dust cover's shallow underwater image of... a trail of blood? Uh...hello? Where's the damn shark?
"Steve, times have changed. Trust us - booksellers prefer classic cover art where less is actually more. The in-your-face scary sharp teeth and naked woman - it's now considered corny - and corny is a something that can kill sales." "Okay, and that might have worked if the title was TEETH or FEAR - something that described a shark five times larger than a Great White. But no one knows what or who MEG refers to." Naturally, they ignored me. GRADE: C minus.
Mass Market : If I was disappointed with the hardback, I was utterly dissatisfied and
sickened when I saw Bantam's mass market mistake... a solid black cover with the word MEG stacked - again in black. Hell of an effort, Bantam. Are you really this dumb, or are you purposely trying your best NOT to sell paperbacks?
The answer - which I would learn years later was actually YES. .. long after BDD ceased all communications in December of 1998. .two weeks before I was due to receive a high 6-figure payment for my second novel - FATHOM -the back end of a two-book, 7-figure deal. Instead of accepting the novel or offering me more notes to edit by, BDD cancelled FATHOM.
In retrospect - BDD probably saved my career. FATHOM was pitched as a thriller about the Mayan Calendar's 2,000 year old doomsday prophecy... that was before BDD decided they wanted to groom me to be their next Peter Benchley. .. something I never wanted or asked for. In the end, Ii ave them what they asked for- another underwater story, but it was a horrible mess. Two weeks before I was due a large payment BDD cancelled FATHOM. Then, to save face - they butchered the book they had insisted I write.
The President of Doubleday (Arlene Friedman) had several problems. MEG the hardback was a hit, the paperback only 5 months away. I later leaned that BDD was in the process of being bought out by German conglomerate Bertlesmann. A year earlier, the German publisher had clearly been insulted when - at the 1996 Frankfurt (Germany) Book Fair, the host was clearly rankled as all anyone could talk about was this MEG manuscript that BDD had purchased and were now selling out the foreign rights to - MEG named the Book of the Fair. I have a newspaper article that quoted a Bertlesmann mgr: "It's the end of everything."
For Arlene Friedman, that was true. Cancelling FATHOM saved money, but the last thing she needed was the MEG paperback to sell millions of copies -which it would done. Instead she tossed it overboard with FATHOM and blamed everything on me. Bertlesmann fired her anyway.
GRADE: F.
NOTE: We had to sue BDD to get the rights to the Mayan story back. I rewrote the entire novel and TOR bought the domestic rights and released it as DOMAIN (with not single edit). In 2010, a small publisher in Spain purchased the rights and retitled it The MAYAN PROPHESY. The novel became a runaway best seller and the #1 best-seller in Spain, Mexico, and Argentina.
Unfortunately, years of stress left its mark and at the age of 47, Iwas diangosed with Young Onset Parkinson's Disease.
Moving on...
Since the audio was also BDD (well done, to be fair), I will conclude the MEG review with the MEG Graphic Novel, story adapted by J.S. Earls, illustrated by Mike S. Miller. Simply put - I am blown-away! Mike S. Miller's illustrations are so artistically breathtaking... the characters appearing so life-like that (true story) I actually had to remove the MGN from my high school teen reading program (Adopt-an-Author), as well as the private free PDF library located at SeaMonsterCove.com & SeaMonsterCoveHS.com (SMC High School) because I GUARANTEE parents would have complained (not so much the Dads). The bikini-clad women are the stuff nocturnal emissions are made for while the borderline bloody R-rated attack scenes are each a potential Night Terror-in-wait. And yet the artwork only works because of the flawless adaptation of the 350-page novel written by J.S. Earls.
Thank you, gentleman -a well-earned A+.
December 27, 2020
Hi Gemmies, Its no secret that I am a fan of the entire Meg series and have read all of the books by Steve Allen, so I was happy to read and review Meg the graphic novel. For the storyline the Graphic Novel is a mix of the original novel and the revised/ expanded second edition. The story was enjoyable but very toned down from the novel. There are not as many character deaths or as much gore. This would make for a good starting point for new fans of the series. The character development is in depth enough to move the story forward. The illustrations are clean, crisp, and beautiful. The dialogue is also substantial for a graphic novel version. I enjoyed revisiting the world of The Meg in this format and hope additional graphic novels are created for the other books in the series. If you are a fan of shark carnage, snarky characters, and intense underwater action read Meg the graphic novel. I give Meg the graphic novel 5 gems. Happy Reading!
April 30, 2021
I loved the original book, The MEG, and I don't hide that. I saw this and was hoping that it would be more enjoyable than the movie.
It was. I loved the artwork, it was wonderfully drawn. My favorite scene in the original book, where the Meg rises from the ocean floor in a shower of blood from another megalodon shark, was kinda in there. So that made me happy (since it wasn't in the film).
Overall it was a fun and quick read.
It was. I loved the artwork, it was wonderfully drawn. My favorite scene in the original book, where the Meg rises from the ocean floor in a shower of blood from another megalodon shark, was kinda in there. So that made me happy (since it wasn't in the film).
Overall it was a fun and quick read.
May 8, 2020
Decent adaptation of the novel.
July 30, 2021
It's like the book. If you want to brush up on what happens this is a good condensed way of doing it.
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