Easily one of the best, weirdest comics I've read. A great adaptation of a great world.

A lot of fun, much like the stories that inspired them. Though Chaykin's pacing is sometimes choppy, his use of the language is delightfully in-character. It's unfortunate that the series didn't catch on, it could have been a more humorous compliment to the many successful Conan comics.As usual, Mignola is a delight, though it's amusing to see him at a much earlier stage, where his lines are more sketchy and his angular shading has that definitively early nineties 'edgy' look so favored in comic...

This was really fun. I'd never heard of Fafhrd or the Gray Mouser, but I had heard of Lanhkmar (a fantasy version of New York where most of their adventures take place) somewhere distantly in the past. I can see how having a duo to act as foils for each other can really work. Although the differences between the two were more in their backgrounds. They both arrived at the same place in life in very different ways and found kindred spirits in each other.The art I actually like more that some of M...

Ultimately, I'm glad I borrowed, rather than bought, this book. It looks great, some of Mignola's best work ever, I thought. Chaykin does a very good job capturing the give-and-take bantering between the two leads. There are some really nice storytelling techniques, split panels, overlapping dialogue, etc., that I appreciated, but there's just not enough here to get over my complete and absolute lack of interest in Swords and Sorcery as a genre. All of the stories were an absolute drag to get th...

Although I enjoyed the art, the stories didn't make any sense. I think the issue is that Leiber's works are too complicated to be translated easily into graphic novel format. Too much had to be left out and the result was a kind of hack and slash approach to the stories.

Fritz Leiber's stories, Howard Chaykin's adaptations, and Mike Midnola's art, that's a winning combination right there.These are fun and interesting tales that are accompanied by great art, and I really enjoyed reading them. I wasn't sure what to expect as I don't know that much about the source material, but when Mignola is involved, I always want to check it out. At the same time, Chaykin is a revered name in the comic world, so I knew there was a good chance I would enjoy all of this, and I w...

Really fun stuff. Chaykin's view of the original material as fantasy-set noir really shines through, and is great stuff. Plus, BIG SECRET, I kinda like Mike Mignola's older stuff better than his current. In some ways. Weird, huh?

Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola and Al Williamson's collaboration on this graphic adaptation of Fritz Leiber's various Lanhkmar stories is a feast. Chaykin's writing, while sometimes criticized here for being choppy, suits the quick pace of the original tales and loses none of their critical turns. Meanwhile, Mignola's art is at its pre-Hellboy best, making a meal out of the wondrous and semy details of Newhon and Lankhmar and its favorite anti-heroes. Chaykin and Mignola would collaborate again ar...

Mignola and Leiber were a match made in Leng. It's a shame we didn't get to see more of this, and a shame too that Chaykin's writing can't quite keep up.

The artwork by Mike Mignola was very good, but Howard Chaykin's adaptation of Leiber is just way too choppy. Art: good. Writing: Nonsensical. Not good.I can only give this two stars.

Characters created by Fritz Lieber, story by Howard Chaykin and art by Mike Mignola... how could I possibly NOT like this graphic novel?I had actually read, oh so many years ago, Chaykin's original take on the characters in DC Comics' Sword of Sorcery and had liked it even then. So yeah, this book was a giddy little school girl feeling kinda book for me.It desperately needs a sequel though.

Chaykin's stilted dialogue is mind-numbing (although I can't entirely say that this quality is far-removed from the source material), but this anthology still stands as an apt abbreviation/introduction to the Leiber series. Obvious highlight: Mignola's and Williamson's fantastic artwork. It makes one regret the aesthetic shift Mignola underwent for the Hellboy series; the watercolor-like designs blend his standard engraving style with an art nouveau influence with a richness that makes Seed of D...

I wanted to LOVE this book.No.Here's Fritz Lieber:"Sundered from us by the gulfs of time and stranger dimensions dreams the ancient world of Nehwon with its towers and skulls and jewels, its swords and sorceries."Here's Howard Chaykin:[No setup whatsoever.]It's like that Lieber delights; Chaykin strips everything down to bare bones. It misseth the point, and not even the Mignola illustrations can do anything with it.

It had been far to long since I'd read any good Sword & Sorcery when I picked this volume up at Hemingway's Books in Abbotsford, BC. Mignola's art caught my eye, as it always does. I bought it on a whim, took it home, and eventually sat down with a glass of mulled wine and Thanksgiving leftovers to read it.I loved it.It doesn't read like a modern comic; I think that's part of what endeared it to me. This is old-school Sword & Sorcery to the core, the kind of fantasy that has been replaced by sch...

Mignola's called this his favorite pre-Hellboy work, and it's easy to see why. His artwork is fantastic, and the dirtied-up high fantasy setting is within his general wheelhouse but not quite like anything else he's done before or since. I know people complain about Chaykin's scripts being choppy or somewhat difficult-to-follow, but that did not bother me. It reminded me of the feeling I got from reading a random Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short story collection when I was 14-years-old, thrown i...

Seven stories adapted for comics by Howard Chaykin and Mike Mignola.-- "Ill Met in Lankhmar"-- "The Circle Curse"-- "The Howling Tower"-- "The Price of Pain Ease"-- "Bazaar of the Bizarre"-- "Lean Time in Lankhmar" (nice touches of humor here)-- "When the Sea King's Away…"Seasonal Reading Challenge Fall 2018 Task 5.9 - Boggle:It’s a cheesy victory, but AND (from Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) is in the upper right corner of the given boggle board.

The artwork and dialog really brings Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to life. It's very well-written and a fun adaptation of the series. It lacks the depth of the stories (of course, as any comic adaptation must) but the fun, adventure, and urbane wit carries through. (I wasn't a huge fan of the "Lean Times in Lankhmar" arc, but that's a tough story to adapt.)It really makes me want to go read the Leiber stories again, they are some of my favorite "sword & sorcery" adventures, and the graphic noveliz...

great job, as befits the best sword & sorcery series ever. the original stories by Fritz Leiber are artfully rendered - and there's a lot going on in Leiber to capture. the best bromance ever conveys the joy they both take in their unlikely association. and the early Mike Mignola art is very nice - bit of an oriental fantasy feel to it, like maybe Groo drawn with sharper edges, not quite what you might expect from the author of the sometimes very stark Hellboy series. a labour of love, this one....

This isn't a graphic novel, but rather adaptations of seven stories from Fritz Leiber's series about Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser. The classic series is arguably the second most influential in the sword-and-sorcery fantasy genre (after Conan of course), and are richly told, subtle tales. Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes have got to be the best-named patron wizards ever! Adapting the original classics to this form is a daunting undertaking, but Chaykin does pretty well fo...

Didn't realize this was a reappearance of two characters from previous works by Fritz Leiber. With that said, one can completely read and enjoy this book without previous knowledge about these two guys. The trouble they get into is page-turning and Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser are a couple of characters that work really well together in kind of a love-hate-partner-competition comedic relationship. I picked it up because of Mike Mignola's art, the guy behind Hellboy, I admire and enjoy his work and...