Diana Gabaldon to Write Outlander Story to Be Turned into Manga
By Jane • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News • •Diana Gabaldon will write an “original story” to be set in the world of the Outlander series including favorite characters such as Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. The illustrator is Hoang Nguyen and will be 192 pages in length. The publication date is 2009. Gabaldon apparently wrote several comic book scripts for Walt Disney in her early days.
I can hardly wait to see the fetishized version of Jamie and Claire. Hopefully, this will be super successful so that we get action dolls and be able to make dioramas.
Seriously, the Outlander story in manga form? I think its only successful if the love story is between Lord John and Jamie and not Claire and Jamie.
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I’ve never read Outlander but if the manga focused on a love story between two men, I pretty much guarantee a slew of new BL manga readers would pick it up and discover Diana Gabaldon. ^_~
I have to say, I can’t see it either.
As for Lord John: there are only certain circumstances that I would read about anything pertaining to him. Lord John was ruined for me as a “heroic” character in the first book. Pretty much, he was and is forevermore unredeemable to me based on his actions and portrayal. By the end of the second book, I was waiting with joy for the scene that I hoped eventually would come where he would be drawn and quartered and his head put on a pike to rot. Obviously, *lol* I no longer read the series, and obviously my view is not shared by many, but he is one of the few characters anyone has ever written in a book who I have truly found repugnant and without any moral value whatsoever. He made such a strong impression upon me, I still wish extreme evil to befall him every time someone mentions the series. I’m assuming it wasn’t Gabaldon’s intent to paint him so blackly since she launched a series where he is the star, but for me he became the epitome of everything truly repugnant in a human being.
It’s been years, and my reaction is just as strong today as it was then which is a testament to Gabaldon’s skill.
Lord John was in the first Outlander? Goes to show how many years it’s been since I read it.
Sarah, I don’t even remember Lord John in book 1! I’m a fan of the Outlander book, but the rest of the series lost my interest, and then I became a fan of Lord John. Though I usually end up wishing his books were completely outside the Outlander books because I don’t like seeing Jamie on stage there. It doesn’t quite work for me.
Anyway. You’re not actually thinking of Claire’s first husband’s doppelganger, whose name I can’t remember, are you? No doubt you’re not, though he’s certainly the one I loathed, though I’m not in any minority there.
Now I’m wondering if I’ve got the wrong character. Not enough to hunt down a copy of the book, but wondering. It’s been a lot of years, maybe I’m remembering it wrong. It had to be in book one or two because I stopped reading the series about midway through book three.
Who is the man who captured Jaime, had him beaten and raped him? ) He was a persistent problem in the background. He was in love with Jaime and was always doing unpredictable stuff as a result. I remember it as being Lord John.
No! Not Lord John. I can’t remember the name of that awful man, though I think he dies at some point in the 2nd or 3rd book? He’s an ancestor of Claire’s first husband.
Lord John was indeed in love with Jamie (though in later books than Outlander, I think), but also respected him and never laid a hand on him in any manner whatsoever. LJ knew his feelings weren’t reciprocated. (To continue to be my broken-record self, I don’t even find LJ’s attraction to Jamie convincing, but that’s another issue.)
I thought the bad guy of Outlander was Black Jack Randall. But I’m not a huge fan (liked it but not enough to bother with The Further Adventures of Jamie and Claire) so I may be remembering incorrectly.
That’s right. It’s Randall or something who did the nasty to Jamie in Outlander. Lord John recalls meeting Jamie and Claire at some point before Culloden (gets tricked somehow) but he never did those awful things to Jamie.
I never finished Outlander Vol I but I’ve finished listening to two books in the Lord John series. Lord John and the Private Matter was very good, balanced on the edge of a knife and never fell over. Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade wasn’t as well plotted in my opinion and I have to agree with anyone who doesn’t think Jamie needs to be in Lord John’s stories. I knew there was some connection or I would probably have been confused by the intrusion of this character. It would have been enough to simply mention Lord John’s service in Scotland.
Did you know that there’s already this really awesome sci-fi manga called Outlanders by Johji Manabe.
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