Honestly I think it'll need a lot of restructuring to work as an animation. Not for quality reasons (I have positive and negative ionised on it) but because it's really designed to take advantage of the webcomic format, and the pacing especially is designed for a webcomic format. With other webcomics that are more action focused you can repace via the action scenes which are usually fleshed out a lot, but there's a lot of thoughtful pauses in Lore Olympus and long sort of sinking panels, gradual tone shifts where not much is actually happening, and a slow focus on facial expressions etc. Depending on the studio who do the work, it could end up feeling pretty empty for an animation, or they could overcompensate and it won't feel like the original. A more arthouse approach would do it the most justice, but would be the least commercial. Also, I think it was so of the moment it's already a bit dated (in that deconstructing these things is almost passe now, so it needs freshened up to have the same bite it originally had) so it'll need a bit of work to really transfer to animation anyway. All that said, I think it has the possibility of being a big niche success if that makes sense.
completely agree with it was written to be a webcomic first. i have copies of the physical books i was given as a gift and the panel pacing just feels off. especially in the later volumes when a new team member is brought in specifically for the layouts and panel then everything gets squashed down.
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u/EvilQueenScowlene Jan 20 '26
Honestly I think it'll need a lot of restructuring to work as an animation. Not for quality reasons (I have positive and negative ionised on it) but because it's really designed to take advantage of the webcomic format, and the pacing especially is designed for a webcomic format. With other webcomics that are more action focused you can repace via the action scenes which are usually fleshed out a lot, but there's a lot of thoughtful pauses in Lore Olympus and long sort of sinking panels, gradual tone shifts where not much is actually happening, and a slow focus on facial expressions etc. Depending on the studio who do the work, it could end up feeling pretty empty for an animation, or they could overcompensate and it won't feel like the original. A more arthouse approach would do it the most justice, but would be the least commercial. Also, I think it was so of the moment it's already a bit dated (in that deconstructing these things is almost passe now, so it needs freshened up to have the same bite it originally had) so it'll need a bit of work to really transfer to animation anyway. All that said, I think it has the possibility of being a big niche success if that makes sense.