thegatorgirl00 she/her Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 At the recent Orem signing, Brandon mentioned that he wrote an outline and script for a graphic novel after White Sand is done. I put the relevant part below. As far as I'm aware, this is the first we've heard of it. I'm curious, with the mixed reaction White Sand got here on the Shard, what are people's thoughts on this? Are you hopeful? Apathetic? Doubtful it will be good? Something else entirely? Quote One thing I've learned to do is to write novellas or work on graphic novels. Because the actual word count that I need for a novella like Emperor's Soul or for a graphic novel like White Sand, is a fraction of what a big novel takes. And so I get this cool thing with a graphic novel where I can write something out..like I just finished an outline and script for a new graphic novel, that we're not going to release until after White Sand's done. But now that White Sand 3 is moving along and the writing portion of that is done, and we're just working on the art, I came up with something else. And instead of taking 18 months like a Stormlight novel takes, it took me, like, a month. And so that's a way I can get a story ready and can release it to people without having to spend 18 months on something.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted March 14, 2018 Posted March 14, 2018 I'm absolutely hopeful (I'm also a bit of a White Sand apologist, but that's beside the point). I've long thought that White Sand's biggest flaw is the fact that it was originally written as prose. It was kind of Frankenstein-monstered into a graphic novel to varying levels of success. This new project is going to start its life as a graphic novel and is being designed with that in mind.
Yezrien Posted March 15, 2018 Posted March 15, 2018 I think White Sand's biggest flaw was that it was written at the beginning of Brandon's career. He's gotten so much better since Elantris. If this new graphic novel is a completely new writing project, without loyalty to old trunk novels, I predict it'll be a huge improvement.
Isilel Posted March 15, 2018 Posted March 15, 2018 Could it be connected to Sanderson's ideas for the folded Mistborn video game, perhaps? Something from the past of the Final Empire? If so, it would be great, IMHO. FE was such an interesting setting and we have barely seen it before it was destroyed. Not to mention that all the intriguing WoBs about Spoiler TLR's children and his one-time intention to give up the Empire pretty much beg for a piece of fiction about these events. I am not enamored with "White Sand" graphic novel, but then I have some serious problems with the prose version too. Also, Sanderson and Co. have presumably gained some experience by doing it, so the future similar endeaviors can only be better. I won't lie that I wouldn't have preferred a novella, but something new in Cosmere universe is always better than nothing .
Andy92 Posted March 15, 2018 Posted March 15, 2018 As others have mentioned, writing a graphic novel from scratch seems like it will go better. It's hard to condense a previously written novel into graphic novel format without cutting a lot of the details. I personally prefer novellas because I'm just not that into the whole graphic novel thing. But we might get some cool Cosmere stories in this format that won't take Brandon years to release this way.
Weltall Posted March 19, 2018 Posted March 19, 2018 (edited) Given that Brandon used almost the exact same words to describe what he was considering doing with the ideas he'd come up with for Mistborn: Birthright, I would not be surprised if that's what this new graphic novel is. Quote Leveros So as I was rereading Mistborn, I realized something that I hadn't deemed important before. Assuming that Rashek doled out the original Allomancy beads to create the first Mistborns, who did he give them to? Obviously, he couldn't give them to his fellow packmen because then they would have the same compounding abilities as him. Additionally, it stands to reason that he would not have given the beads to any of Alendi's entourage because of his deep-seated hatred for all things Khlenni. All in all, I'm just confused about the actual origins of the noble houses. Brandon Sanderson I actually intended to dig into this in the video game--which happened several hundred years after the event, but which would talk about the origins of the houses and things like that. It's possible we'll still do this some day. Phantine Did you end up doing a lot of writing for the game before it got cancelled? Depending on how much there is, it seems like handing it to Crafty for them to make a RPG module could make sense. Brandon Sanderson No, I didn't--but I had a lot of ideas. My current goal is to hand it over to Ben (who does a lot of the artwork for Stormlight Archive) and see if we can turn it into a graphic novel. (Note that we wouldn't start on this until White Sand is done, though, as I don't want to have TOO many projects in the works at once.) source Edited March 19, 2018 by Weltall
Calderis he/him Posted March 23, 2018 Posted March 23, 2018 (edited) I was thinking the exact same things as @Weltall for the exact same reasons. Working on Arcanum recently, I input an even that was specifically an old interview about the game when it was in development, and it made me want this as a GN. We'd get the origin of the mistcloak! Quote Ted Bade I know there is nothing set in stone and there is a long path of compromises before the game becomes available. Is there any "teaser" you could share with our readers? Brandon Sanderson This is something really small—not a big deal—but I am planning to work into this game the origin of Mistcloaks. Footnote: The Mistborn video game has been officially canceled source Quote Daily Dragon According to your blog, an RPG video game called Mistborn: Birthright, based on your Mistborn series, will be coming out in 2013. Can you give us a teaser? Brandon Sanderson It's set hundreds of years before the first trilogy. I'm writing the story, and it's about a young nobleman who gets entangled in events he did not expect at all. It should be a whole bunch of fun, and I'm trying to work into it things like the origins of the mistcloak and fun stuff like that, [so] we can dig into the past of the world and see the origins of a lot of things that we see later on in the series source Edited March 23, 2018 by Calderis
Angsos Posted March 23, 2018 Posted March 23, 2018 I hope the new graphic novel either isn't cosmere or he releases an audio version. I have the prose White Sand so no audio doesn't matter so much. I'm legally-blind so audio would be very good if it was new cosmere stuff.
Draginon he/him Posted March 24, 2018 Posted March 24, 2018 It'd be neat if it was a story that needed to be visual to work properly. Unless it's a previously seen Shardworld, maybe it could be a world that only makes sense in the visual medium. Also it'd be nice if this and other future GN were more one-shot instead of splitting a story up. If they ever do anything that's White Sand long they should just have it be a bigger comic, after all I have comic collections that could easily fit all three parts of White Sand and still have room for other stories and an Ars Arcunum at the end.
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