Flashbacks rendered as newspaper articles or cut aways to sudden breathless action sequences all help make this a hugely satisfying adaptation. Writer Stéphane Melchior and illustrator Clément Oubrerie stick close to the original novel but make effective use of devices made possible by the visual form. Now, finally, we have the first part in the comic strip adaptation of the series… Northern Lights has also spawned a movie adaptation, stage play and a two further novellas set in the world of its heroine, Lyra. Since then the books have become classics and are responsible for kickstarting the current boom in children’s publishing. It’s been twenty years since Philip Pullman published Northern Lights, the first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy.
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