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A review by ljrinaldi
Disney Graphic Novels #4: Great Parodies: Mickey's Inferno by The Walt Disney Company
3.0
Did you spend a summer reading the original Dante's Inferno? (Well as original as you can get to something that has been translated into English). My mother had a family copy of the book, with the Doré illustrations. It was quite impressive, and quite confusing. And Actually, I read the whole Devine Comedy, that summer, but the Inferno, the journey to hell, was the most interesting, and the most confusing. Dante used his novel to poke at people he didn't like, casting them into hell.
Fun, summer-time reading to be sure.
So, when I saw the there was a Parody, using Mickey Mouse, I thought it might be fun to give it a try.
Now, granted, I read Dante over 35 years ago, or so. Some bits still stand out, but most is a soft blur, so I am not going to rate this book on how good a parody it was, but rather on how easy it is to read and understand this at all.
This story was written in 1949, in Italy. Most things refer to things that were perhaps happening in the world at that time. Some are timeless. (although there was one "joke" about a cell phone. I have no idea what it was before.)
The ending of the graphic novel says that reading this will inspire kids to read the real thing. Perhaps. For me, it was all a jumble and confusing, and not funny or fun. :(
I commend Papercutz for bringing this out, and republishing it, but not sure who it would be for. If it a sort of cliff notes for kids, it doesn't appear to stick close enough to the original story to be much help. Perhaps kids will enjoy it. It feels a bit dated to me, using characters from, of course, cartoons from the 30s and 40s.
Thanks to NetGalley and PaperCutz for making this book available for an honest review.
Fun, summer-time reading to be sure.
So, when I saw the there was a Parody, using Mickey Mouse, I thought it might be fun to give it a try.
Now, granted, I read Dante over 35 years ago, or so. Some bits still stand out, but most is a soft blur, so I am not going to rate this book on how good a parody it was, but rather on how easy it is to read and understand this at all.
This story was written in 1949, in Italy. Most things refer to things that were perhaps happening in the world at that time. Some are timeless. (although there was one "joke" about a cell phone. I have no idea what it was before.)
The ending of the graphic novel says that reading this will inspire kids to read the real thing. Perhaps. For me, it was all a jumble and confusing, and not funny or fun. :(
I commend Papercutz for bringing this out, and republishing it, but not sure who it would be for. If it a sort of cliff notes for kids, it doesn't appear to stick close enough to the original story to be much help. Perhaps kids will enjoy it. It feels a bit dated to me, using characters from, of course, cartoons from the 30s and 40s.
Thanks to NetGalley and PaperCutz for making this book available for an honest review.