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I don’t really see the problem with this, to be honest; CSI is a pretty intelligent show (even if the ‘oneliners’ Grissom says before the title sequence have already become a bit forced and cliché), Collins is an established writer of crime-based stuff in a variety of media, and whilst I don’t know the artist doing the bulk of the work, using Ashley Wood’s rather ethereal style to depict the flashbacks seems like a good idea. Certainly suggests that they’ve thought about it.
Whilst intermedia adaptations don’t tend to be very good, they don’t necessarily have to be bad; after all, Grant Morrison threw some tarot references into his Zoids work, and whilst I think the comments above about the art in the X-Files comic raise a fair point, I don’t think the plotting was bad at all – the first year made a single story about the fleeting nature of knowledge and memory, taking in a large number of fortean topics on the way (trepannation, the prophecies of Fatima, etc).
So the stuff can be a cheap cash-in, or it can be better than you’d expect. As someone observed, we have yet to see. But at least there’s some thought been put into the creative team for the title.
As for whether adaptations are good or bad for the medium, I think they’re neutral. But when it comes to whether they’re good or bad for the business side, well, they might get people into comic shops who don’t normally go into them, and a bit of browsing might well lead them to find other things they’re interested in, be that some small press stuff, some more crime-based stuff, or even a superhero title because it reminds them of how much they enjoyed Spider-Man at the flicks this summer. Whatever.
I’m all for getting the ‘next generation of comic readers’ into the shops by making titles which may appeal to them easily available, but it never hurts to have some real-life actual grown-ups (as sfd seems to be, judging from the generally very articulate posts of hers I’ve seen) buying too…
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