I'm in the process of reading TNG: Ghosts, and I've noticed that there are a lot of weird inaccuracies in the art, like they have the bridge a tiny fraction of the size it is on the show, the back consoles are practically right up against Worf's back, and at one point Riker was sitting in the command chair, and it looked like his knees were practically between the ops and conn stations. And it has the same kind of oddities in Sickbay, the only thing in there is the biobeds along the wall, the one in the middle isn't there, and neither is the big display on the wall next then. And then they also have giant console screen behind the biobeds that were never there on the show.
I'm not necessarily expecting everything to always be photo accurate down to every detail, but these are some pretty massive inaccuracies, and I've found it highly distracting. I know artists are going to take some liberties from time to time, but for me this is just to different for me to be able to ignore it, and it's driving me crazy every time a scene is set in one of these locations. I could see something like this happening 30 or 40 years ago where it was a lot harder to get a hold of reference material, but this was created in 2009, which would have been well into the internet era, where it should have only taken seconds to pull up pictures or clips on sites like Youtube or Memory Alpha.
It also seems strange to me that this would have gone through multiple layers of approval and no one noticed or cared enough to get the artists to fix it.
I have even more of a problem with the DC TNG series that came out while the show was on the air, a lot of the locations on the ship looked absolutely nothing at all like they do on the show. I can maybe understand this happening in the first few issues if they came out before the episodes were done, but this kept happening for years into the series, well after the show had started airing. I know this was preinternet, but I would think once the show had started airing the artist would have been able to see the episodes and know what the sets look like.
I guess to me if you're going to a comic book tie-in to a show or movie, you should do everything you can to make as much of it as possible match the original source material. Unless of course it's set in a different era or alternate universe where things are meant to look different.
Does this kind of thing bother other people this much, or is it just me?
I'm not necessarily expecting everything to always be photo accurate down to every detail, but these are some pretty massive inaccuracies, and I've found it highly distracting. I know artists are going to take some liberties from time to time, but for me this is just to different for me to be able to ignore it, and it's driving me crazy every time a scene is set in one of these locations. I could see something like this happening 30 or 40 years ago where it was a lot harder to get a hold of reference material, but this was created in 2009, which would have been well into the internet era, where it should have only taken seconds to pull up pictures or clips on sites like Youtube or Memory Alpha.
It also seems strange to me that this would have gone through multiple layers of approval and no one noticed or cared enough to get the artists to fix it.
I have even more of a problem with the DC TNG series that came out while the show was on the air, a lot of the locations on the ship looked absolutely nothing at all like they do on the show. I can maybe understand this happening in the first few issues if they came out before the episodes were done, but this kept happening for years into the series, well after the show had started airing. I know this was preinternet, but I would think once the show had started airing the artist would have been able to see the episodes and know what the sets look like.
I guess to me if you're going to a comic book tie-in to a show or movie, you should do everything you can to make as much of it as possible match the original source material. Unless of course it's set in a different era or alternate universe where things are meant to look different.
Does this kind of thing bother other people this much, or is it just me?
To be honest, I don't really even remember the art from Ghosts, I just remember that I didn't really enjoy the story that much. The story is usually more important to me than realistic art. (Not that I'm not impressed with realistic art, I am; but it's not going to cause me to enjoy a story I don't like, and in most cases, non-realistic art isn't going to make me dislike a story I enjoy.)
