His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going series), on which he worked with his then-wife, the artist Judith Hunt. Wenzel's artwork is certainly proficient, and I enjoyed the look of his watercolour technique but (you knew there was a but coming!

Then he took out his morning letters, and began to read, pretending to take no more notice of the old man. The book gets to the point and doesn't often waste time telling you something that doesn't relate to the book.As someone who on occasion dibble dabbles with paints and pencils (I'm not very good), I could really appreciate just how beautiful the artwork is and spent some time closely examining pages to see how elements were drawn. It is the crux of the story; it is the anchor that embodies Tolkien’s idea of “a far greener country. As I was saying, the mother of this hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, head of the hobbits who lived across The Water, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill. Then Bilbo sat down on a seat by his door, crossed his legs, and blew out a beautiful grey ring of smoke that sailed up into the air without breaking and floated away over The Hill. Bless me, life used to be quite inter—I mean, you used to upset things badly in these parts once upon a time.

It is a journey fraught with danger – and in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the guardian of this treasure, the most-dreaded dragon Smaug. It had been a while since I read The Hobbit and had quite forgotten a few things, so I figured it was time to dive in.

Please send over scans and background edition about the comics you own, so we can make here a small history of all the Wenzel hobbits and translations. When the narrator said, "Dwarves are not heroes, but calculating folk with a great idea of valuing money," it was pointless and had no pertinence to the story. Además me parece que la historia está mal organizada, le dan mucha importancia (y muchas hojas) a detalles que no aportan nada a la historia y en cambio la Batalla de los Cinco Ejércitos se desarrolla en poco más de una página. However, I wasn't super crazy about this particular representation/presentation of the timeless Tolkein masterpiece. This new edition has been completely re-scanned from the original paintings to achieve more accurate and vibrant colours, with David Wenzel revisiting the work to provide sensitive improvements and additions to the original edition.

It is a journey fraught with danger - and in the end Bilbo alone must face the guardian of the treasure, the most dreaded dragon in all Middle-earth. And I particularly appreciated the precise use of punctuation, with inverted commas always correctly placed, and use being made of semi-colons. I forgot to add this book; I read it recently because my boys were interested in it and I wanted to make sure it was not too complex or scary. The hobbit is a good book with a lot of description, some humor, good information, and not much rambling off.While most were still into translating the book with the first cover ballantine Books / Del Rey decided to get Wenzel to create an amazing new cover and re-release the book under ISBN 0 345 44560 0. Bungo, that was Bilbo’s father, built the most luxurious hobbit-hole for her (and partly with her money) that was to be found either under The Hill or over The Hill or across The Water, and there they remained to the end of their days. When I saw this graphic novel edition of the Hobbit, I was very curious as to how the story would play in the medium of the "comic". It was Bilbo’s ending; it is not about the tragic death of a dwarf who went slightly mad, and then redeemed himself; it is not about a boatman who slayed a dragon, and became a renowned hero: it is about a Hobbit. I'm sure most of us hardcore Hobbit/LOTR fans will appreciate this format, to some degree, but NOTHING beats the original imho.

The Hobbit is the story of Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented Hobbit whose life is turned upside down when he joins the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on their quest to reclaim stolen treasure. Although both David Wenzel and Chuck Dixon are American, the language used is English, and much of it is straight from Tolkien, especially the dialogue in the speech bubbles. This graphic novel sticks very close to Tolkien's text, even including much of the narration, which is nice, but means it's not really an adaptation, like I was sort of hoping.A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Here we see the cover of the original first book but it was released as a one volume softcover, bringing all three parts together in one book. It tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins and his adventure to the Lonely Mountain with a group of dwarves.