Look, having been through the comics myself, I can agree that the shows adaptation isn’t faultless, but it’s a shame seeing how so much of the discourse this week is about the complaints people have for the way things have been delivered with the show this season.
No shade, but I hope the comic folks having a bad time at the moment learn to let go and just enjoy the show for what it is. Great casting, faithful recreation of the OG story- We’re so much luckier than the vast majority of comics fans getting the adaptation we are.
Peace and love, bring on the downvotes I guess 😅
I generally have liked the changes from the comic so far. Fleshing out some characters, re-pacing and reorganizing arcs, some character changes, etc. I also think how they’ve approached the violence works well. Gore was introduced much earlier to set the tone, but has been toned down in some places where I think it would’ve gotten in the way. It would’ve been expensive to animate for minimal impact and probably visually confusing in animation. It’s not like we didn’t get extreme violence considering the evisceration and the obliterated jaw.
One particular character I think is greatly improved is William. I hadn’t read the comics until after watching Season 1 and his portrayal through half the series as an annoying, misogynistic, homophobic, dude-bro that fairly suddenly comes out as gay later felt really jarring and dated. It was very early-2000’s stuff and made him really unlikable for me. Having him gay from the start while still being a generally obnoxious person works better for me.