Ender's Game comics from Marvel

Ask me what my favorite novel is, and I will tell you without hesitation that it's Ender's Game written by Orson Scott Card. It is cliche to say so, but when I first read it many, many years ago as a youngster it changed me. I had never been so emotionally invested in a character before. I never knew that stories could have such a hold on you, and I've read it again and again for that reason. Ender was the first true hero that I felt like I knew.

So you can imagine how thrilled I was to learn that Marvel would be doing a comic adaptation of the novel. The first two issues of the five-part series are available now, and they are nothing short of amazing. The art is stunning, but it's the adaptation by Chris Yost that has me the most mesmerized. For those of you who may say that an adaptation can never do the source material justice, give this one a try. Yost has truly captured the Ender's Game I first pictured in my mind. And, amazingly enough, he's done so with as few words as possible. This is a man who understands the advantages of the comic medium and who uses them to their fullest.

But don't take my word for it. Here is Orson Scott Card's reaction to the comic series.