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robertrivasplata 's review for:
The Forever War
by Marvano, Joe Haldeman
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Comics adaptation of the classic space Vietnam War novel does away with most of the weird sex stuff. Makes me want to re-read the original novel. Even though this adaptation cut a lot of parts that I liked from the novel, It's still a really good adaptation. Mandella and Marygay's romance kind of comes out of nowhere, but it kind of did in the original novel too. I feel like the 90s would have been the perfect time to adapt The Forever War into a movie (culturally, technologically, zeitgeistly), and that the Starship Troopers adaptation pretty much preempted any chance of that happening then. I find it funny that in this adaptation, all of the human landing craft throughout the 900 years of the Forever War look like Space Shuttles. I was also amused by the scene in the part with Mandella's officer training simulations of a Fokker Triplane shooting down a Fairey Swordfish. It's a small thing, considering that that the span of 16 years between the Swordfish and the Fokker's introductions is puny compared to the timescales in The Forever War. On the other hand, the Swordfish was considered a dinosaur at the time of its introduction, but was still a technological leap ahead of any aircraft of the Fokker's vintage.