DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune: Book 1 (Volume 1) (Dune: The Graphic Novel, 1) Hardcover – Picture Book, November 24, 2020

I was fifteen the first time I read Frank Herbert’s classic, Dune. I was immediately swept away to his universe, and my imagination was immediately fed! Oh, what a diet of sight, sound, color, emotion, politics, warfare, and religion he fed me! The movie of this book (before there was one) unraveled in my mind, and I ingested every moment. It was such a delicious experience that I decided right then and there that I would revisit this wonderful place.Since that moment in 1981, there have been two movies, a miniseries, a graphic novel, and various other stories, as well as Frank Herbert’s son continuing the series with science Fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson. All of which is good. Please note I said good. With the exception of the continuing series by Herbert and Anderson, the images provided have not really lived up to what my imagination conjured up so long ago (and even now, since I am giving the original a re-read.), but that is not a knock against this book.Dune: The Graphic Novel is a lovely work of art. The art in it is simple, yet beautiful. Each page was deliciously drawn and colored and added to what my imagination conjured up. The pages are thick in this book, which made me feel like I was skipping ahead, but in reality, I wasn’t. A major plus for this book is that it brought back all of those feeling from when I first read Frank Herbert’s novel.I am looking forward to getting my hands on volume 2. It is on several wish lists, and my wife knows what a Dune fan I am.All in all I give this book 4.5 bookmarks out of 5!

The DUNE saga is a masterpiece of science fiction. It is a timeless bittersweet space opera that gets better each time I revisit it. And yet, adapting it is a challenge in it of itself. Each adaptation suffers from the biases, taboos, trends of its respective eras. This is not the fault of the directors or even the defenders of each live action adaptation, it is just the way things are - and moreover the hollow industry of American media is.And yet, here comes another medium which does the unthinkable. It adapts Dune masterfully, missing almost nothing which made the first book so special.If you liked the previous adaptations and enjoyed the latest film series of Dune but were left wanting more or wondering how this epic telling in the future far, far away further unravels and the roots behind prophecies, the politics, mysteries of the known universe, but don't have time for listening to the audio book or reading the book, I recommend this graphic novel series.

This is well crafted novel. The art work suits the tale perfectly. It's raw and descriptive. For those who haven't read the original book. This novel gives you a condensed version of the story, with all of the important things still in tack.

To those who found themselves drawn into the cosmic universe of DUNE, guided by the visual enchantments of the 2021 filmic translation, this critique is your guiding star. My recollections of the previous cinematic endeavors and series are but distant mirages, shapes forming and fading in the vast desert of memory.The recent film, a luminous spectacle, gripped my senses with an unrelenting intensity. Every frame, a meticulously crafted tableau, seemed capable of assuming a cherished position upon one's walls, a captured moment of grandeur and visual poetry. As a frequent voyager through the realms of graphic novels that eschew the trappings of superhuman protagonist, I felt a compelling allure towards this medium of DUNE.This novel, sketched and inked, draws its inspiration more heavily from Herbert's original literary masterpiece, although the tones that it strikes seem, perhaps, less steeped in the brooding depths of maturity. Yet, there is an elusive charm about it, a refreshing energy that manifests in every inked line and coloured panel.This graphic rendering, therefore, deserves a place in your collection, although one must warn not to anticipate the ethereal ambience of the film. It is a beast of different colors and contours, a creature born of ink and paper rather than light and shadow. It aligns itself more closely with the sand-scoured landscapes of the book, inviting you to experience DUNE in yet another richly textured iteration. Thus, venture forth and embrace this interpretation, my fellow wanderers in the desolate yet captivating universe of DUNE.

while i haven't read this yet (i'm waiting for all three parts to come in & for me to finish the book), the art is clean, the line work is amazing and the texture is fantastic (feels like velvet).

I love this graphic novel!! I don’t normally read them, this is my first one but I love the story!! I love the films as well!!

In “Frank Herbert’s Dune: The Graphic Novel Adaptation, Book 1,” Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson set out to adapt the text in a visual format as faithfully as possible, featuring art by Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín with a cover by Bill Sienkiewicz, who did the art for the Marvel Comics adaptation of David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of “Dune.” Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson write in their preface, “We weren’t interested in doing our interpretation of ‘Dune’ or modifying the story to add our own special stamps. We wanted this to be pure ‘Dune’ – chapter for chapter, scene for scene… Because the original novel is broken into three “books,” the graphic novel will be released in three separate volumes… We kept a watchful eye on the ‘Dune’ canon that Frank Herbert laid out, and made certain that the art matched the vision he had for his incredible universe.” They succeed in faithfully adapting Herbert’s novel with the only significant change occurring near the end as a way to foreshadow events that will occur in the subsequent two volumes. Allén and Martín’s art beautifully compliments the story, with stunning colors evoking the underlying emotion and settings of each scene. Their portrayal of the sandworms of Arrakis are particularly stunning. Fans of “Dune” will find this a beautiful companion to the novel.