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A review by cryo_guy
The Graphic Canon, Volume 1: From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons by Russ Kick
4.0
So this was pretty cool. Given to me by a friend for xmas because I like graphic novels and such, I was particularly looking forward to the ancient Greek adapted sections.
The editor of the collection, Russ Kick, put little introductions to each work that not only gave you some background on the work that was being adapted, which was often insightful if brief, but also some background info on the adapter of the work (He also has sections in the back, which are also brief, and expand on such things).
The adaptations were as different as any adaptation can be varying from faithful attempts to portray whatever time period and setting of the work to humorous adaptations to shifting the story into a different period of time. Most retained the original text (or a common translation), but a few branched out even in this area.
Mostly very enjoyable. I'm a fan of the graphic novel as a medium. The Iliad adaptation was in particular very good. Overall, it read like a series of short stories. For many of the longer works only a piece was adapted and inserted into the collection.
Definitely worth checking out.
The editor of the collection, Russ Kick, put little introductions to each work that not only gave you some background on the work that was being adapted, which was often insightful if brief, but also some background info on the adapter of the work (He also has sections in the back, which are also brief, and expand on such things).
The adaptations were as different as any adaptation can be varying from faithful attempts to portray whatever time period and setting of the work to humorous adaptations to shifting the story into a different period of time. Most retained the original text (or a common translation), but a few branched out even in this area.
Mostly very enjoyable. I'm a fan of the graphic novel as a medium. The Iliad adaptation was in particular very good. Overall, it read like a series of short stories. For many of the longer works only a piece was adapted and inserted into the collection.
Definitely worth checking out.