I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream

by John Byrne, Rachelle Menashe (Colorist), Harlan Ellison (Story)

Comic adaptation of the short novel of the same name by Harlan Ellison.

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, Dystopia

26 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.

Reviews

[Malale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Estoy evaluando por lo alto porque la idea es buena, y entiendo también que el relato es de los años sesenta... Pero madremia la vision del autor del unico personaje femenino... Que machistada.

[Landon Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Checklist Category - Independent Graphic Novel
Title - I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor)
Author - John Byrne, (Originally written by Harlan Ellison)
Publisher/ # Of Pages - Dark Horse/ 26 pages
Year of Publication - 1995
ISBN-13 - 9781569712108
My Response -Interesting take on a graphic novel adaptation, as the original novel is printed alongside it. Before each part of the graphic novel, the same part of the prose novel is there to read. It allows someone to perform comparisons between the two. I think the graphic novel benefits greatly from this format, enough to think that the adaptation would not be able to hold its own without the prose text alongside it. Without it, the story becomes hard to follow. With it, it adds a new take on the story along emphasizing some more intense scenes.

[Alex Castillo Barona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buena versión del relato original, quizás lo mejor es que incluye la versión completa del texto para leer y comparar. La adaptación funciona por el buen trazo y la idea de convertir buena parte del monólogo interior del protagonista en diálogo. El final mantiene su dramatismo aunque al último cuadro me parece que le faltó al dibujo de la criatura final de acuerdo con la descripción del texto.

[Samanta · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book.....

Just read it.
It will be horrible but...damn

[Rosi · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐️ 2,5

(En realidad no me leí el cómic, me leí el relato corto en el que se basa, pero no tiene entrada individual en Goodreads, sólo como parte de un recopilatorio del autor, así que marco el cómic)

Solo me leí esto porque es la principal fuente de inspiración de The Amazing Digital Circus, que me parece buenísima. Ahora, se queda en mera fuente de inspiración, porque la trama y los personajes ya no tiene mucho que ver. No hay mucho que decir al respecto porque es un relato de 17 páginas en el que no hay ni una trama definida ni desarrollo de los personajes. Sin embargo, la idea general de la historia me parece brutal y me alegro de que alguien viera potencial en ella para desarrollarla más (TADC).

Me parece escalofriante que esta historia se escribiera hace casi 60 años, cuando la IA no era ni una mota de polvo en el horizonte, y que sin embargo a día de hoy ya no resulte tan inverosímil. Recogemos lo que sembramos, y actualmente le estamos dando a la IA toda la información clave de cómo acabar con la humanidad, y ni siquiera es broma. Esperemos unos años y ya veremos qué pasa.

[Dylan Elkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great premise. Awfully done. Ellison is a misogynist with one of the flattest writing styles I’ve ever experienced. The inability to include any emotion in the entirety of the story is baffling. At first, I thought that maybe it was a way to drive home that AI had taken over the world, but the characters tortured for hundreds of years, who WERE sane… The narrator used no words that evoked emotions.

Like. It’s a horror book for characters that don’t feel the horror at all. And nobody does anything except die. It’s just done bad.

[Jo Ima]

Fantastic little evil piece of horror. I think the graphic novel version is also a great adaptation

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Kamen Rider Ben · Rating 2 out of 5]

No funciona como versión alterna al relato corto, pero es una curiosidad si te gusto el relato corto

[illuzzip · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bello stile, ma la storia poteva essere meglio adattata nei baloon, piuttosto che fare copia-incolla diretto dal racconto originale...

[Sergio Costa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adattamento a fumetto del breve racconto di Harlan Ellison, bello ma non quanto l'opera originale

[So_philophia · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75* well that was terrifying.

[Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

I A.M.

[Ramonus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this way of writing. The buildup is really good.