Family Guy Cine-Manga

    (Tokyopop, 2004)
™ and © 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Corporation

Fumetti books—comics staged with photographs rather than drawing—are the sometime experiment of movie and TV adaptations. The fundamental failing of these books is that comic panels aren’t staged as a moment in time, but a progression, much like the statue of the dancer whose body is a composite of different steps and movements to create the appearance of motion. Thankfully, these Cine–Manga adaptations of Fox’s Family Guy pick carefully when selecting freeze frames from the show. The story flows reassuringly well in each unit, a flow unfortunately disrupted at times by the panel–to–panel layout. Still, they’re faithful reproductions of the original episodes, word for word.

— Brendan McGinley
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