Awesome short Dune comic

A comic artist has created a brief comic illustrating a brief moment in the life of Paul Atreides (Muad’dib) from Frank Herbert’s epic Dune series.

On his blog, Ernerst Borg 9 (also known as Paul Pope or Pulphope) has published half a dozen frames in a comic strip, illustrating the following quite from the book: “It is said of Muad’dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. ‘That was its fate,’ he explained.”

The artist wrote the following as background to the work:

This depiction of Paul M’uad Dib and the Fremen Stilgar is based on paintings John Schoenherr did for an illustrated edition of Dune published by Berkley Books in 1977. Frank Herbert said that of all the visual depictions of his ideas, Schoenherr’s work was closest to the way Dune’s people and things looked in his own mind. The colors here are by Lovern Kindzierski, who worked with me on the second half of the Strange Adventures strip.