Reply #44: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" The book blew chunks.

[Aristus]

It tried to be a pastiche of old hard-boiled detective fiction, but it was pretty lame. The overall concept of the book was poor, too. The film postulates that cartoon characters are actually living beings who are simply being filmed going through their paces. The book started the general idea, but didn't go far enough with it. In the book, they are comic book characters whose stories are still-photographed instead of filmed. Jessica hates Roger, Roger gets killed, and the book ends abruptly and unhappily. Almost ruined the movie for me.