User blog comment:Xean/Percy Jackson doesn't want to be Harry Potter/@comment-99.66.37.12-20091207211619

Ok, big fan of HP here (hell, did a dissertation on the series and have taught it numerous times) and just starting the PJ books. So far, Riordan's been interesting and fun, once my brain focused on the plot not on figuring out which divinity everyone was related to (although he is a bit blatant regarding his monsters in their mortal aspects and the half-bloods' parents, but this is for a younger audience).

Still. ..

"I loved the humor that the Gods provided, you don't see that kind of humor in HP. "

Exactly which HP books have you read? They're chock full of humor from the "childish" (Harry sticking his wand up a troll's nose in book 1) to the boys looking for dates in book 4, to Mad Eye Moody turning Malfoy into a ferret, etc. etc. If you've only seen the movies, you're missing 60-80% of the material, which will probably happen with PJO as well in movie translation since it happens with virtually all book-to-movie attempts.