Are you going to buy White Sand 2?

[Fatling]

Seeing as how the first one was strictly mediocre and I've already read the prose version, I'm debating whether I should buy the second graphic novel when it comes out or not. I thought I would appeal to you, my fellow sharders, for advice. I kind of want to buy it just because maybe it will be better, and because I enjoyed the white sand prose, but then I kind of don't want to buy it because of the reasons stated above. I feel so conflicted!

[Calderis]

No.

I love Brandon.

But no. 

[Windrunner]

Yes, because I'm interested to see if it improved.

That being said I am incredibly dissatisfied with the first volume and don't anticipate it being any better. In addition to that, if this is the highest quality product that they can churn out with an actual prose manuscript to go off of, I have no idea how they'd be able to do a good job with adapting books two and three of the trilogy which do not exist in a written format (unless you count Lord Mastrell). I'm an advocate for a full rewrite of the prose, which I don't think would take long to be cleaned up. On the other hand, Brandon's got a lot on his plate going forward. Stormlight is taking far longer than expected, so we'll see what he decides he really wants to spend his time on.

[+hwiles]

Agreed; if you bought White Sand 1 on faith and legitimately felt it didn't yield sufficient entertainment for its cost, then I encourage you to consider sending a positive and compelling message to publishers by continuing to support the Cosmere at large and cautiously investigating White Sand 2 through your local library.

I don't presume to pass judgement on others for their individual value assessment, but I personally felt a little burned after purchasing White Sand 1.  I'm glad it was written, I'm glad I read it, and I'm glad future generations of mankind will have it available to them as a cultural relic; but, like millions of other books, papers, and essays, I don't believe it is significant enough to justify owning a personal copy.

I proudly display my copy of A Memory of Light signed by Sanderson and Robert Jordan's wife on my bookshelf; my copy of White Sand is in a box somewhere; I don't suspect I'll ever bother to dig it back out.

[+hwiles]

Just now, hwiles said:

I agree with @Calderis ; if you bought White Sand 1 on faith and legitimately felt it didn't yield sufficient entertainment for its cost, then I encourage you to consider sending a positive and compelling message to publishers by continuing to support the Cosmere at large and cautiously investigating White Sand 2 through your local library.

I don't presume to pass judgement on others for their individual value assessment, but I personally felt a little burned after purchasing White Sand 1.  I'm glad it was written, I'm glad I read it, and I'm glad future generations of mankind will have it available to them as a cultural relic; but, like millions of other books, papers, and essays, I don't believe it is significant enough to justify owning a personal copy.

I proudly display my copy of A Memory of Light signed by Sanderson and Robert Jordan's wife on my bookshelf; my copy of White Sand is in a box somewhere; I don't suspect I'll ever bother to dig it back out.

 

[ParadoxicalZen]

Yes

[theuntaintedchild]

I probably actually will buy it. I'd much rather have a cleaned up prose version. But It's really not that bad. Plus I don't know how much more will change between the prose version and the graphic novel. If I remember correctly the prose version didn't mention anything about the sky faces.

[Snipexe]

Yes, because I actually liked the first one. (I know I am like the only one) I had really low expectations and was pleasantly surprised.

Edited September 5, 2017 by snipexe

[Pagerunner]

I will not be purchasing it. I am not a fan of the format, and the first graphic novel was already superseded by things in the prose version (like sand turning black when water was poured on it).

6 hours ago, Windrunner said:

(unless you count Lord Mastrell)

Technically, Lord Mastrell is the just the second half of White Sand as we have it now.

 

[Lightning]

I probably will buy it, but only after it drops significantly in price.

[Landis963]

I'll read it in the store, and if I don't come away feeling disappointed, I'll buy it.  

[CaptainRyan]

I plan on buying it for two reasons:

1) I want to support the idea of the Cosmere being brought to different mediums. Overall I was very dissatisfied with the graphic novel but I absolutely LOVED the visual aspect. I can only hope that we see some Mistborn, Stormlight Archive, or other Cosmere short stories or novellas given a similar treatment. Prose is great and all but actually seeing the landscapes, people, buildings, magic, etc. in a beautiful color format was simply fantastic.

So, sure, the first adaptation was comprised of chull leavings. To me, that's ok because it gave a small glimpse of one of the Cosmere worlds.

2) I bought the first one and I want my Sander-shelf to be complete haha

[Ammanas]

I can't justify spending my own money on it (based on the quality of the first), but I still want it. I asked my wife to get it for me as Christmas or anniversary gift. I think it was a good compromise.

[Orlion Blight]

Yes. I mean, we don't stop buying books in a series and this is what we are dealing with: a Cosmere story serialized as comics. 

Though the real reason I will buy it is because if we can get some of the more minor stories of the Cosmere in comics form, that will free up time for Brandon to write the big stuff instead of working on getting prose versions out there. As a result, I want this to succeed. As a first outing in comics, it's not that bad, and with more experience subsequent stories should be structured better.

I do wish that Dynamite was not doing it. They kinda suck with being timely. But, if we show there is demand, they are more likely to give it priority and, hopefully, will get subsequent volumes faster and with better editing. Or future Cosmere stories could be picked up by a better company, like Image. In either event, to get these results require sales!