{"id":30616,"date":"2012-10-22T11:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T10:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=30616"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:31:10","slug":"supernatural-the-dogs-of-edinburgh-graphic-novel-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/supernatural-the-dogs-of-edinburgh-graphic-novel-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural: The Dogs Of Edinburgh graphic novel review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every successful genre series inevitably spawns a collection of licensed tie-in products of varying quality, and <em>Supernatural<\/em> is no different, boasting a growing stable of fiction that expands on the ghostbusting adventures of the Winchester brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Wood\u2019s (<em>DMZ<\/em>, <em>Northlanders<\/em>) <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Dogs Of Edinburgh<\/em> sees Sam and Dean drawn across the pond to investigate mysterious disappearances, ancient myths and tribes of seal-faced Innsmouth rejects at the request of an old flame from Sam\u2019s college days, Emma of the Isles (yes, that\u2019s her full name).<\/p>\n<p>The story itself, while fairly predictable, is well paced and in keeping with the formulae and tropes of the television series.Transplanting the boys to foreign soil makes for a welcome twist, with Wood\u2019s choice of antagonists reminding us that there\u2019s plenty of mythology to explore beyond North America\u2019s shores, and hardcore fans will no doubt feel rewarded by the glimpse into Sam\u2019s college days that the titular two-part prologue to the main <em>Emma Of The Isles<\/em> story arc provides. Grant Bond\u2019s artwork also complements the story perfectly; dark, stylish and certainly evocative of Scotland\u2019s bleak, wilder reaches.<\/p>\n<p>The dialogue, however, lacks the sharp, dark humour that so defines the Winchesters, and perhaps suffers for Wood\u2019s overly restrained use of dialect on the part of the Scottish characters \u2013 a detail which, if handled well and not allowed to descend into parody, could have contributed a great deal in terms of emphasizing the \u201cstrangers in a strange land\u201d theme that the story aims to evoke.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dogs<\/em> is ultimately a respectable addition to the <em>Supernatural<\/em> cannon, but falls short of being a must-read for any but the most die-hard fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Wood&#8217;s Supernatural: The Dogs Of Edinburgh is out now in trade from DC Comics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":30617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2616,8],"tags":[77],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Supernatural-The-Dogs-Of-Edinburgh-graphic-novel-review.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}