New from the Cretins of Classical Comics: The Fully Illiterate Shakespeare!
t’s not easy to get me really pissed off…Okay, that’s a bloody lie. I am extremely easily irritated, in fact. Some people are ticklish. I’m quite allergic to all kinds of idiocy.
Still, take it from the top, please. Let’s not go all rant-shaped from the very first paragraph.
So, there’s this publisher, ‘Classical Comics’ that’s decided to bring out comic book versions of Shakespeare’s plays.
Nothing wrong with that perse, though one could always ask the question, as a recent Guardian literature blog did, why one would want a comic book, if there still is a perfectly okay original version available.
For instance, there’s a publisher that’s just convinced itself that what the world really needs is the work of Agatha Christie in comic book form.
As the Guardian columnist notes:
The latest [works to be made into comic books] are Agatha Christie’s, with eight reworkings of whodunnits including Murder on the Orient Express due from HarperCollins. They’re intended to “enthral a whole new audience of Christie fans”, because apparently two billion books sold just isn’t enough.
Back to the bloody morons of Classical Comics though. They state, as a ‘How do you do?’ type introduction, that,
“Like you, we are passionate about the graphical novel format, and we know how much quality means to you. That’s why we only employ top-flight artists to create the full-colour artwork that captures all of the atmosphere, emotion and excitement of the original classical works . We want to to give you a thoroughly absorbing reading experience.”
Okay, ever (not) so slightly nauseating but nothing particularly offensive – so far.
Hell, no – I’m so not going to spend a second longer, analysing and then discussing these disgusting people and their insanely asinine project.
I’ll just leave you with this gem, lifted word for word from their own site:
If you’ve ever wanted to fully appreciate the works of Shakespeare but find the original language rather cryptic then this is the version for you!
Fully appreciate Shakespeare – but without all those pesky words…
Gods, give me strength…!!!
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