Comments on: Diana Gabaldon to Write Outlander Story to Be Turned into Manga

By: Nifty

Nifty — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:22:59 +0000

I’m looking forward to the graphic novel because it will provide a different perspective on Outlander. Outlander itself is told entirely from Claire’s POV — first person. Everything we see or know we see or know because Claire relates it to us, or allows other characters to relate it to us. We learn much about Jamie’s character through the actions Claire’s narration, but it’s all so limited. The graphic novel is going to play up Murtagh a lot more, for one thing, and will include many scenes that don’t feature Claire at all. Also, I believe the story will be starting (in Jamie’s time) PRIOR to Claire’s arrival on-scene, with Jamie’s return from France after the axe-injury to the back of his head that nearly killed him. He’s 23 and unsure what he’s going to do: he’s still a wanted man, with a price on his head; he refuses to go to Lallybroch because he believes the rumor that his sister took up with Jack Randall; he knows that he’d not be welcome at Leoch by Collum and Dougal and that he really can’t make a life with the Mackenzies; and there’s no way he’d go to his Fraser grandfather. I have a feeling that the graphic novel will show how Jamie’s direction and purpose coalesced the moment he met Claire so unceremoniously. The novel sort of shows Claire being swept along with the Mackenzie tide — Dougal and his men — and that she fell in with Jamie as a result of that. But I have a feeling, based on some of the snippets I’ve seen, that we’re going to see that Jamie, after their initial meeting, decided to fall in with Claire and see where that took him. Claire has many of the same characteristics of Jamie’s mother and sister, two women he loves dearly, so naturally he’d be drawn to her, while at the same time she’s different enough to be very intriguing for him. *shrug* For me, as an Outlander fan, I’m looking forward to seeing the enlarged scope of the original story and all the context from Jamie’s POV and Dougal’s and Murtagh’s, etc. I truly think the graphic novel will be an enhancement to the story, not simply an illustrated version of it.

By: Focipresley

Focipresley — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:03:51 +0000

All the naysayers out there are truly foolish. The Outlander Series is first-rate and Ms. Gabaldon is very sharp. The Series IS geared toward the intellectual folk, who can actually grasp and understand the underlying themes and messages of the Series. So that may explain the negative comments here.

By: SilviaBnc

SilviaBnc — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:50:35 +0000

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By: person

person — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:37:51 +0000

Did you know that there’s already this really awesome sci-fi manga called Outlanders by Johji Manabe.

By: DS

DS — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:29:27 +0000

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.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:01:10 +0000

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.

By: jmc

jmc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:33:11 +0000

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.

By: Jorrie Spencer

Jorrie Spencer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:29:05 +0000

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.)

By: Sarah McCarty

Sarah McCarty — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:28:16 +0000

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.

By: Jorrie Spencer

Jorrie Spencer — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:14:31 +0000

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.